Debbie Burke is an award-winning author of twelve books, including the jazz novels Death by Saxophone, Icarus Flies Home, and Glissando: A Story of Love, Lust and Jazz, and the nonfiction interview series Tasty Jazz Jams for Our Times(R) (Vols. 1-3). Other nonfiction titles include The Poconos in B Flat, Klezmer for the Joyful Soul, The Author's Little Red Guide to Editing, Music in the Scriptures, and Knowing Irv: The Life and Art of Irving Schiffer. Her short story anthology and poetry book, The Meteor Symphony, is a fiction and nonfiction hybrid.

Why jazz as a subject? Her love affair with jazz began when she first learned the alto saxophone at the New School for Social Research in NYC in the late 1980s and then joined a community jazz band at a university in northeast Pennsylvania. This became the inspiration for many of her books, interestingly serving as fodder for both nonfiction and novels.

A former news writer, columnist, and business journal editor, Debbie's first novel was traditionally published, but she soon turned to self-publishing. She is now a professional editor and author coach at Queen Esther Publishing LLC. Her internationally acclaimed blog can be found at debbieburkcreative.com. Brooklyn-born, she has lived in six different states in the eastern half of the US, but most of all, loves being near the ocean. She now resides in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.