Lawrence Burk was born in Rapid City, South Dakota on November 28, 1958. His parents were in the military and relocated many times, but eventually settled down on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, where Lawrence and his five brothers came of age. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1976 in pursuit of independence, then in 1980, enlisted in the Navy to travel and see the world. Over the course of his military career, he completed six major deployments, two minor deployments, and numerous naval exercises on both the east and west coasts. He has sailed all around the world and on his many travels, visited eighteen countries on five continents.

His duty assignments included: The USS Pensacola (LSD-38) out of Little Creek, Virginia. The USS Fox (CG-33) home ported in San Diego, California. The Naval Hospital Oakland, California. The USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), the USS Wichita (AOR-1), and USS Kansas City (AOR-3), all three out of  Oakland, California. The Inter-Service Postal School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana. The USS Nimitz (CVN-68), after it moved from Norfolk, Virginia to Bremerton, Washington, and the Joint Military Postal Activity - Pacific in San Francisco, California.

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His service in the Navy was an amazing part of his life which he will forever cherish. Lawrence retired from the Navy in 2000 and moved, with his wife, to her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. Two years later, they relocated to his hometown, Gulfport / Biloxi, Mississippi to settle down for good.

In 2002, Lawrence took the experience he gained in the Navy and put it to good use as the controller for Industrial Corrosion Control, Inc. in Gulfport, Mississippi, an industry leader in industrial coatings application, and wonderful company to work for. He was a natural for management and accounting and made a new home and career with old friends, but as much as he enjoyed it, there was always something missing. In 2015, he turned to his passion for writing and found the journey into the world of story telling exciting and rewarding. Writing became the adventure his restless spirit needed. It has been said, "Sailors belong on ships, and ships belong at sea." Though he no longer sailed the oceans blue in search of adventure, his imagination took him places he could only dream of.

In 2016, Lawrence published his first book, Alien Within, a story of a man forced to face mortality while experiencing a myriad of unexplainable occurrences involving angels, aliens, and gods. Alien Within was written as a standalone novel, but it created a backdrop and inspiration for much more. He published a second edition of Alien Within with a new publisher in 2018. He later adopted a more contemporary style of writing to write the four subsequent novels: A Remarkable Curse, Beyond Providence, Tricentennial, and Gods of Tomorrow, which would come to be known as Alien Odyssey, an epic saga of how aliens helped save humanity from extinction. In 2020, he changed publishers, and genres, and wrote the suspenseful thriller, The Harem, followed by V is for Vivian in 2021. Vivian's story is one of vengeance and justice. Regardless of the genre, character development became a hallmark of Lawrence's writing as they come to life and pull the reader into the story.

While on his many voyages during his early Navy years, to pass the time, he dabbled in poetry and song writing as a hobby. That hobby would resurface later in his life to fuel a new passion for expressing life through poem. After publishing his seventh book, V is for Vivian, he returned to poetry and found inspiration everywhere. In this age of technology and desire for immediate gratification, fewer people read for entertainment. For those who still appreciate reading a well-told tale, Lawrence presents them with literary treasures. In addition to his novels, his poems and observations have drawn a new group of readers from all walks of life. He found poetic inspiration from a wide variety of poets and with many styles, Lawrence provides a little something for everyone. You will never tire of reading a good poem over and over again.