Marcus BurkeMarcus Burke grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. He attended prep school at Brimmer and May and played basketball at Susquehanna University, where he played varsity for all four years. But a knee injury limited his playing time, so he took up fiction witing instead and was accepted at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he was awarded a grant in honor of James Alan McPherson from the University of Iowa MacArthur Foundation Fund. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Read More Read Less