Shannon Burke (born September 11, 1966) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
Burke was born in Wilmette, Illinois and studied at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
[citation needed] After graduating he became a paramedic for the New York City Fire Department.
[1][2] Burke has published four novels: Safelight (2004), Black Flies (2008), Into the Savage Country (2015), and The Brother Years (2020).
He also has been involved in various film and television projects, including work on the script for the film Syriana (2005),[3][4] and he is the co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix series Outer Banks.