WILLIAM E BURLESON

AUTHOR, EDITOR, PUBLISHER

“...a lively, engaging novel full of laughs and heart.”
— Lorna Landvik, Patty Jane’s House of Curl

COMING MAY 2027

“…humor, humility, and a surefire helluva ride.”
— Joanna Acevedo, Small Cruelties
“Ahnwee Days is this season’s funniest, most tender-hearted novel... ”
— Mary Ann Grossmann, Pioneer Press, 10/13/2024

Burleson is the author of three books. Rory’s Not That Guy: And Other Tales from Middle America (2026 Blackwater Press) is a short story collection that takes the reader on a tour of “flyover country,” from struggling small towns to honky-tonks to the parts of cities that don’t make it onto postcards. Ahnwee Days (2025 Blackwater Press) is a novel about a small town that has seen better days and the mayor who tries to save it. And in non-fiction, Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community (2005 Haworth Press), takes the reader inside a community that is both huge and usually ignored.