Bobby Burns lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works as Assistant Director for an alcohol recovery program and teaches high school part-time. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Primavera Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group for the homeless, and is the editor of "The Sojourner", a bimonthly newsletter for the Tucson NAACP. His writings on homelessness have been published in the "Arizona Daily Star", the "Arizona Republic", and the "Tucson Citizen".