Bobby Burns:
CLASS OF 1977
Phoenix Union High SchoolClass of 1977
Phoenix, AZ
Bobby's Story
BobbyâÂÂs the author of the best-selling non-fiction book Shelter: One ManâÂÂs Journey from homelessness to hope- published by the University of Arizona Press in 1998. The book is now in its second printing. ItâÂÂs a true story about his life living in a Tucson Homeless Shelter in the 1990âÂÂs. ChapterâÂÂs from his book have been adopted in several college textbooks.
The book has been featured in Publishers Weekly twice, Kirkus Book Review, and among other publications. HeâÂÂs published poems in the Louisiana Review and his interview of the late poet Ai was published in Sonora Review in spring 2002. ...Expand for more
Other publications include Sandscript Magazine in 2009-10
While working at Louisiana State University in 2005, he did an interview of novelist Ernest Gaines in New Roads, Louisiana and it was published in Oxford Magazine in 2006. BobbyâÂÂs written opinion editorials for the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star newspaperâÂÂs from 1996-2009.
He currently writes for the Arizona Informant Newspaper, a Phoenix weekly African American newspaper. Bobby earned a masters degree from Northern Arizona University and a BA degree from Arizona State University. HeâÂÂs employed with a community college in Tucson, Arizona.
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