Reece Burka is a lifelong New Orleanian, clinical psychologist, and poet. He graduated from Isidore Newman and Yale, studied art at Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, and obtained his doctorate at CSPP in Berkeley. He is a passionate lover of traditional New Orleans jazz and spends as much time as he can dancing joyously at local music festivals and venues. Reece is devoted to Nature, which he observes on long walks in Audubon Park and on summer vacations in Vermont, and to his wife, two sons, and three granddaughters.