Hello!
Colleen Burner is a writer, artist,
& editor based in Portland, Oregon.
ABOUT COLLEENColleen Burner (they/them) is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute (creative writing/painting, 2010) and the MFA writing program at Portland State University (fiction, 2014), and an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient. Their short fiction has appeared in Fecund, Old Pal, Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable, Permafrost, and Quaint. They are a coeditor of surely magazine. Sister Golden Calf is their debut novella (Split/Lip Press, September 2023). They live in Portland, Oregon.
“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. ‘the most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.’ Anne Truitt, the sculptor, said this. Thoreau said it another way: know your own bone. ‘Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life … Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw at it still.’”
— Annie Dillard