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Oregon author Zoe Burke to Speak at Stayton Public Library
11/17/2017
STAYTON, Ore. -- The Stayton Public Library is excited to announce a visit featuring author Zoe Burke on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the E. G. Siegmund Meeting Room. There will be a reception accompanying the event.

Zoe Burke is the author of the Annabelle Starkey mysteries, Jump the Gun and No Gun Intended (Poisoned Pen Press, 2013, 2016). The third in the series, For Beretta or Worse, is in production. 

Burke is also the author of several children’s books including the Charley Harper Nature Discovery Books: What's in the Woods?, What’s in the Rain Forest?, What's in the Coral Reef?, and What's in the Desert? (Pomegranate, 2013, 2014, 2017). She has also developed and written board books for little ones: Count the Birds, Animal Alphabet, and Book of Colors (Pomegranate, 2015), CatBook, Owls & Loons, and Lines and Triangles and Squares, Oh My! (Pomegranate, 2016, 2017).

In her day job, Zoe Katherine Burke (also known as Katie) is the vice president and publisher of Pomegranate Communications, an art book publishing company. She enjoyed a brief singer/songwriter career in the 1990s. She grew up on the East Coast, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for some thirty-five years, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. 

The Stayton Public Library’s speaking events for 2017 are made possible, in part, by funding from the Marion County Cultural Corporation and the Stayton Friends of the Library.