Burke MichaelMichael Burke has traveled through a number of careers since he graduated from college. The first was as an astronomer, working at observatories in the U.S., Hawaii, and Iran. He then went back to school to obtain a Master's Degree in City Planning. e worked in New York City's Planning Department and later became an Assistant Professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture and City Planning. Michael changed direction again when he found a loft in Soho and began to paint. He has been an artist for more than thirty years-painting, drawing, and lately producing aluminum books and sculpture. He has exhibited his work extensively in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. As a fiction writer, Michael is the author of the Johnny Blue Heron adventure trilogy, consisting of Swan Dive (2009), Music of the Spheres (2011), and Out of Mind (2014). Read More Read Less