Emmanuel Burgin

Emmanuel Burgin was born in Lynwood, California and earned a football scholarship to California State University at Northridge. After three years of NFL and CFL tryouts and one year as Captain of the minor league football national champion Twin City Cougars, he helped create the largest event security company in the country, and in 1986 he became the Security Director for the Bob Dylan/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers North American Tour.

In 1991, Emmanuel returned to his first passion, writing. As Sports Editor of El Sol de San Diego, he covered San Diego’s professional football, baseball, and soccer teams, and many of the major boxing events held in San Diego, Palm Springs, and Las Vegas. He also reported on education, environment, health, and politics. He has published in the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Reader, Rugby West Magazine, and Rugby News. His fiction has appeared in San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Tidepools: A Journey of Ideas, Weavings: an anthology of San Diego writers, and Solstice Literary Quarterly.

In 1999 he assisted in the start-up of Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe and performed the duties of General Manager until 2020. He returned to writing full-time in 2021.

Emmanuel’s other passions include photography and listening to music, in particular jazz and blues. The former trains his eye for the details of a story – lighting, color, tones, and moods. In addition, he states, "Photography allows me to capture the beat of a moment, giving me an instant gratification that I can't get from writing. Also, photography gets me outside."

Emmanuel currently divides his time between Prague, Czech Republic and San Diego, California.