Let’’s Become a Ghost Story

Originally from New York City, Rick Bursky now lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising (a television commercial he wrote appeared on the 2006 Super Bowl and won advertising awards around the world). He also teaches poetry at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and occasionally copywriting at USC. His previous full-length collections are Death Obscura (Sarabande Books 2010), and The Soup of Something Missing (Bear Star Press 2004); and his chapbook, The Invention of Fiction, was published by Hollyridge Press in 2005. He has a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.