Stephen Burke

Biography

I grew up in Boston, MA. While earning my MFA as a Graduate Writing Fellow at Columbia University, I looked back to those early years in writing my thesis project. It eventually became my first novel—The Chieftains of South Boston. It’s a tale of three Mahoney brothers, and explores sense of place and how it can shape a person’s destiny.

I later published The Mahoneys of West Seattle. Set in Seattle during the dot com era, it’s a sequel that follows the lives of Matthew Mahoney, Anne Boushay and their two children.

In 2022, I moved to Ipswich, MA, to reacquaint myself with the area and to volunteer on a farm. Those experiences inform Ipswich, Mon Amour. It’s the third novel in a series. I currently live in Boise, ID.