Glenda Burgess is a past recipient of The Rupert Hughes Fiction Award of the Maui Writers Conference, and a New Century Writer Award short story finalist. She has published two novels, an academic work, and most recently a memoir, The Geography of Love (Broadway Books, August 5, 2008). She is currently at work on another novel, and resides in Spokane, Washington, with her family and a singing Scottie. She considers the theme of her fiction to be the complexities and mysteries of human passion. See more about Glenda's The Geography of Love .