Storytelling by Stephen Burke

Hi, I’m Stephen Burke, a writer and author based in Boise, Idaho. As a marketer, I have 20+ years of experience with top brands, including Microsoft, REI and Nordstrom. My work ranges broadly from taglines to outdoor guides and white papers, print, digital, social, email, employer branding, ESG reporting, newsletters and experimenting with emerging social platforms. Portfolio 1 and Portfolio 2  show the breadth of that work.

In the last several years, my skill set has expanded from the creative to include website management, SEO/GEO, SEM and the data-driven approach taken by that side of the marketing brain.

Fiction is how I got started in writing. I formed writing groups in Boston and Seattle while slowly learning the craft and the art. After earning my MFA in creative writing as a Graduate Writing Fellow at Columbia University, I turned my thesis into a self-published novel titled The Chieftains of South Boston. This site has posts on the political and underworld history woven into the story.

I finished my second novel, The Mahoneys of West Seattle, in 2021. More info on that here. In 2022, I moved to the Ipswich, Massachusetts, area to reacquaint myself with the community and to volunteer on a local farm, all research for my third novel, Ipswich, Mon Amour, now available on Amazon.com.