Glenda Burgess

Praise for The Geography of Love

"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir in one sitting-in one breath-and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe. And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel." -Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean.

"This generous book, both primer and elegy, chronicles a courageous woman’s journey forward into love’s complexities…and long after I’ve closed the book, convinced me to embrace and savor wholly each day, each moment, each love, before they, too, are gone." -- Katrina Roberts, author of The Quick, and Friendly Fire, Idaho Prize for Poetry

New to Press
Second edition 2008 softcover release of LOOSE THREADS by Glenda Burgess

Available March 31 wherever you buy books!

Glenda Burgess is a winner of the Rupert Hughes Award for literary fiction, and a short story finalist for the New Century Writer Award.

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self." Jean-Luc Godard (b.1930) French filmmaker and author.

Novelist Glenda Burgess was born in New Mexico, daughter of a US Air Force Lt. Colonel in the Strategic Air Command. The author's first published work at the age of nine was printed in the Spokesman-Review newspaper for payment of one dollar.

Glenda graduated with distinction from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a B.A. in Political Science, also earning a Certificate in Women Studies,and was the recipient of the 1978 Wendell L. Wilkie Distinguished Student Award. Earning a Masters in Public Affairs (1980) from the University of Washington, the author was selected to serve as a Presidential Management Fellow - a presitigious government executive program initiated under President Jimmy Carter.

After completing a decade of government service on Capitol Hill and for the U.S. State Department, in Washington DC and abroad, Ms. Burgess left government service to study creative writing, attending writers workshops and seminars at the University of Washington, the University of California (Berkeley),the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Education at Stanford, the Maui Writers School, and the Aspen Writers Workshop to name a selected few.

Her work engages the drama of the complexities and mysteries of human passion, especially in pursuit of the arts.

NEW
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, a memoir. Doubleday/Broadway Books, August 2008. A tender and intimate memoir that will resonate with readers of About Alice, The Year of Magical Thinking, and Erich Segal's beloved novel Love Story.

Works in Print
Novels
LOOSE THREADS, Second edition softcover, SPRING 2008, AuthorHouse; First edition, hardcover, Great American First Novel series, Malvern Publishing Ltd, UK, 1998.
EXPOSURES, a novel, AuthorHouse, 2005.

Academic
A SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THESAURUS: Women Studies University of Washington, 1979, an academic reference.

Works in progress
PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT. A novel that plays out three generations of love and secrecy from the mountains of Taos to New York and the world of sculpture, the trattorias of Italy and the vineyards of Argentina. Kit Miranda sets out to unravel and redeem both both the betrayals of a broken heart and the decades old mystery surrounding the heir to the Antonelli vineyards.
RULES OF DUST, a work in draft. The tale of a widow, a painting, and a theft that threatens to everything Camille Bellelac thought to be true about her marriage, her husband, and her life.

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