About Audrey Burges

Audrey Burges is a novelist and humorist in Richmond, Virginia. Her debut magical realism novel, The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone, was published by Berkley (Penguin Random House) in 2023, and it has since been released in numerous other outlets and languages around the world, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Italy. Her second novel, A Hous Like an Accordion, was released in 2024 by Ace (Penguin Random House). 

Audrey is a frequent contributor to McSweeney's and The New Yorker, and her work has also appeared in Writer's Digest, Pithead Chapel, Cease, Cows, Lost Balloon, and numerous other outlets. 

When Audrey isn't writing, she's being tolerated by her two children, her very patient husband, and her perpetually bewildered hound.

Audrey was born and raised in Arizona by her linguist parents, which is a lot like being raised by wolves, but with better grammar. She moved to Virginia as an adult but still carries mountains and canyons in her heart, and sometimes, when she closes her eyes, she can still smell ponderosa pines in the sun. 

Audrey's other hobbies include killing a series of "unkillable" house plants, gardening until weeding becomes necessary, knitting for unfortunate recipients, and drawing botanical illustrations that her mother has described as "not so bad." Examples of her sketches appear throughout this site. Certain images are encaustic paintings that Audrey made while burning herself with hot wax.