Background
Michael A. Burstein was born in New York City, and grew up in Forest Hills in the borough of Queens.
Michael A. Burstein was born in New York City, and grew up in Forest Hills in the borough of Queens.
He attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and went on to Harvard College where he was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. He graduated Harvard in 1991 with a degree in Physics. In 1993 he earned a Master"s in Physics from Boston University.
In 1994 Burstein attended the Clarion Workshop.
In 1995 he studied comic book writing under Dennis O"Neil at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
Foreign the article about the Israeli American actor, see Mike Burstyn Burstein"s short story collection I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Burstein was released by Apex Publications on November 1, 2008. Burstein currently contributes columns to the science fiction entertainment website SFScope. From 1998 to 2000, Burstein served as Secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
He chaired the final Nebula Script jury in 2008.
On January 1, 2014, he took office as the first permanent president of the Society for the Advancement of Speculative Storytelling, Incorporated. (SASS).He served for one year.
Since 2014, Burstein has been a news correspondent for The Jewish Advocate. Burstein is an elected town meeting member and public library trustee in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts.
On February 8, 2012, Burstein announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a congressional run as a Democrat in the Massachusetts 4th Congressional District, but eventually decided not to run.