"In Derived From Us, love is something both impossible and inevitable. As distance and as transformation, as renewal and as lack, each poem depicts a different one of love's many faces set against a backdrop of adolescent discovery. Melancholy but not maudlin, and passionate without excess, Burns portrays a world tinted the same vivid blue as a pure Arctic glacier."
- Amber Later (Writer/ Poet)
"In Derived From Us, love is something both impossible and inevitable. As distance and as transformation, as renewal and as lack, each poem depicts a different one of love's many faces set against a backdrop of adolescent discovery. Melancholy but not maudlin, and passionate without excess, Burns portrays a world tinted the same vivid blue as a pure Arctic glacier."
- Amber Later (Writer/ Poet)