Junior Burke
BFA, University of Illinois
MFA, Naropa University
Junior Burke is a prose writer, dramatist and lyricist. His novel, Something Gorgeous, was published in 2005 by Farfalla/ McMillan & Parrish. In fall 2004, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art presented Someone Else’s Dream, a cycle of his songs. In 1999, he won an Essay Award from New Millennium Writing, one of six writers cited nationally. He is also the director of Naropa’s low-residency MFA Creative Writing program. He received his MFA from the Kerouac School at Naropa University and teaches fiction and dramatic writing workshops and courses in literary studies.
