Graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Illustration at Brigham Young University; aspiring artist looking for work in the publishing world of children's books and young adult fiction. Michelle is the self-published illustrator and author of the Mer Tails Trilogy, as seen on Amazon.com.

Her portfolio won her the privilege to travel to New York City and show it to a number of publishing art directors and representatives such as:
Random House
Penguin and
Scholastic

She was taught by a number of well-known artists such as Wade Huntsman, Dan Burr, and Nolan Parson. Her work has been sold at conventions and fairs and is available for purchase online.

 

M. A. Burk’s artwork was discovered and featured on the cover and interior of the Inter-Mountain West Journal of Religious Studies also in 2019.  This same year, a portion of her artwork and the book series were cataloged along with other Latter-Day Saint artists in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, located in the library at Brigham Young University.  In 2020, her illustrations told the story of an entirely different merman in The Mer-Prince Adventures by J. B. Spector.  As of 2022, she has illustrated two of his with more to come.  His books can also be found on Amazon.com under the titles: The Sunlit Curse and The Amethyst Tower.