Burke, Nancy: - Nancy Burke is the author of From the Abuelas' Window and If I Could Paint the Moon Black. Her short fiction has been published in several literary journals and her short plays performed at festivals. As of this writing her short story At the Pool is a finalist for the J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark in fiction with a concentration in dramatic writing. She is mother to three daughters and lives in Montclair, NJ, the community that inspired the setting for this book.