"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, 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.

Glenda Burgess is a winner of The Rupert Hughes Fiction Award, Maui Writers Conference, 1998; a New Century Writer Award short story finalist, NCWA 2002; and received recognition for her short fiction at the Aspen Literary Festival, 2002. She has published two novels, an academic work, and most recently a memoir, The Geography of Love (Broadway Books, release date August 2008). She is currently at work on another novel, and resides in Spokane, Washington, with her family and a singing Scottie. She considers the theme of her fiction to be the complexities and mysteries of human passion echoed in art.

Ms. Burgess studied creative writing at writers retreats, 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.

Glenda Burgess is a member of The Authors Guild, New York; the Pacific Northwest Writers Association; and the Willamette Writers Association.