She is the author of three previous collections: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase, and Duet: Poet & Photographer, a collaboration with her photographer husband. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems, prose pieces, and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies including Atlanta Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Anthology, Louisiana Literature, Passager, Pithead Chapel, Naugatuck River Review One Art, PANK, Mom Egg Review, Valley Voices and elsewhere.

Her debut full-length poetry book, Unmoored, was published by Texas Review Press and released in November 2024. Unmoored has been described as “both existentially serious and massively entertaining. It is arranged loosely in the form of a memoir—as a New Yorker who married a Cajun, Burk lives part-time in southwest Louisiana and has published two chapbooks describing this experience, Learning to Love Louisiana and Louisiana Purchase. This new collection includes many poems from these chapbooks as well as new poems that focus on aging—on getting through the last stretch of life with grace and humor.”