Zoe Burke (also known as Katie Burke) is the author of the Annabelle Starkey mysteries, Jump the Gun and No Gun Intended  (Poisoned Pen Press, 2013, 2016) and several children’s books including the Charley Harper Nature Discovery Books: What's in the Woods, What’s in the Rain Forest, What's in the Coral Reef, and What's in the Desert? (Pomegranate, 2013, 2014, 2017). She has also developed and written board books for little ones: Count the Birds, Animal Alphabet, and Book of Colors (Pomegranate, 2015), CatBook, Owls & Loons, Lines and Triangles and Squares, Oh My! (Pomegranate, 2016, 2017), Molly Hashimoto's Birds!  and Molly Hashimoto's Trees! (Pomegranate, 2018, 2019). Her first children's book, Lightning Bug Thunder, was published by Firefly Books in 1998.

Zoe Katherine Burke is the vice president and part owner of Pomegranate Communications, an art publishing company. She enjoyed a brief singer/songwriter career in the 1990s. She grew up on the East Coast, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for some thirty-five years, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.