Meet Nancy Burke, 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).

Nancy 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.

She teaches writing at Montclair State University and New Jersey Institute of Technology and lives in Little Falls, NJ.