About Tim W. Burke
Biography
He grew up in the nation’s heartland, near some of the most notorious prisons in the U.S. He attended General George Patton Junior High School. His grandfather invented the thing that keeps elevator doors from crushing your arm.
Born in East St. Louis and raised by a nomadic clan of social workers, Tim W. Burke grew up within a mile of Leavenworth Penitentiary and the prison that housed Martha Stewart. He learned to be a raconteur while roaming with his clan, avoided cattle stampedes and the Boy Scouts, and earned a black belt in Aikido. After graduating Temple University, he performed and published humor throughout Philadelphia. His sketch comedy featured the still-living brains of John and Robert Kennedy still running the nation between games of touch football. Tim helped create “The Kibbles and Bits of ‘Hellorama’” which FilmThreat.com called “’Mr. Rogers Neighborhood’ meets ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ on crack.” He read slush for Weird Tales, where he studied editing and writing under Hugo Award-winning editor George Scithers. Today, Tim is a co-owner of Atomic City Comics in Philadelphia. His day job is producing video for a city government in Delaware.
His stories range from gaslight horrors to broad spec-fic farces. His protagonists range from a cybernetic tyrant Benjamin Franklin to a nerdy troubleshooting fiend with the head of a lamprey. Doomed high school students, crime survivors turned monsters, corpses kept alive by illusion square off with epic heroes battling post-quest neurosis. Tim has published several stories in publications with names like Weird Tales, Bewildering Stories, The Town Drunk, and A Fly In Amber, and in the more soothingly named The Willows.