The short story "The Evan Price Signature Model" was included in the May 2021 anthology "Collectibles" edited by Lawrence Block, published by Subterranean Press.
Reviewing the anthology for Bookreporter Joe Hartlaub stated: “Burke combines the penchant for guitar acquisition with a touch of the supernatural… to create a story that is just about perfect."
Burke's novel, "Buddha Was a Cowboy", was published by Gibson House Press in September 2022 and was a finalist for the Chanticleer International Mark Twain Book Award in the category of Comedy and Satire.
UK writer and editor Andrew Wille, on the Writing Studio website, listed "Buddha Was a Cowboy" as one of that year's notable works of fiction.
After three years of directing that program, he was tapped to be Chair of Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, serving from January 2006 to June 2010.