Nancy Burke is the author of Only the Women are Burning (2020), If I Could Paint the Moon Black (2014), From the Abuelas’ Window (2005) and a new short story collection, Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure (2024).
She holds an MFA in Fiction (Dramatic Writing concentration) from Rutgers’ University, Newark and a BA in Anthropology from Montclair State University. Her short stories have appeared in Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. At the Pool was a finalist for the J.F. Powers Award for Short Fiction at Dappled Things Literary Journal.
Her screenplay adaptation of Only the Women are Burning won a Finalist recognition from the 2023 Boston Screenplay Competition. She is at work on a musical adaptation of From the Abuelas’ Window. Visit her Work in Progress page for info on this project.
She teaches writing at Montclair State University and New Jersey Institute of Technology and lives in Little Falls, NJ.