Nancy Burke

Biography

Nancy Burke holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University, Newark and a BA in Anthropology from Montclair State University. She is the author of an earlier novel, From the Abuelas' Window, a story set in Chile in 1974 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet. Her short fiction has appeared online in Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience and in print in Meat For Tea: The Valley Review. She is at work on a new novel. She lives, writes and teaches in Montclair, N.J. Visit her at www.nancyburkestories.com.

Where to buy in print

Books

If I Could Paint the Moon Black
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 58,910. Language: English. Published: February 24, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography, Nonfiction » History » Holocaust
We know The Diary of Anne Frank. Now, we have Imbi's story, If I Could Paint the Moon Black. A child and her mother in occupied Estonia, caught in the nowhere land between two warring dictators, Hitler and Stalin in the years 1939-1945. You will fall in love with the spirit of this young girl; a story of escape and love, delightfully told despite the reminders of war and devastation.