Jeannie Burt

Jeannie Burt was raised on a wheat and cattle ranch in Oregon. But by middle school, she hungered for a broader world than she found in the small farm community. Following a dream of living in cities, she managed eventually to live in San Francisco, New York and Milan. She and her husband now live in Portland.

Early in her college days she studied in Italy and traveled to France where she teethed on Impressionist art. After that, art became her one addiction; life without it was no life at all. She occasionally paints, but saves the rest of the world the torture of seeing it.

Her husband is mightily patient with this passion for art as well as her need to travel. Though her French is anything but pretty, she adores Paris and visits often, where after some of her awful blurts, the French likely take pity and tell her she can speak English with them.

Her husband also understands her need to write, the one activity that has kept her sane after a career in business and corporate human resources. Her writing has gained critical praise, been nominated for the Pushcart prize, and she is now listed as one of the prominent Gale Cengage Contemporary Authors.