Faculty & Staff

Professor John Burks

• Office: HUM 551
• Voicemail: (415) 338-1927
• e-mail: jburks@sfsu.edu
• Resume: resume

Adviser to the magazine sequence; teaches magazine writing and contemporary magazine, adviser to Prism; adviser, online site of Golden Gate [X]press. Editor, of former City Magazine; former managing editor, Rolling Stone; former editor, San Francisco Focus; former reporter with Newsweek, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner; freelance writer with local and national publications; writer of Working Fire; editor of California from the Air; co-writer of Groupies: A Rolling Stone Report and Let It Bleed: Rolling Stones at Altamont; graduate of SFSU; doctoral equivalency at SFSU, 1983.