Ryan (He/Him) is an English/Creative writing Graduate from Missouri State University. He is a photographer, filmmaker, writer, and veteran. His work is available or forthcoming in Five on the Fifth Literary Magazine, Writing Lifeworlds: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, Night Picnic Journal, and Microfiction Monday Magazine. Ryan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Pyre Magazine. His first novella, Killing My Flesh Without You, and his Halloween Anthology, The Halloween Party: and Other Tales of All Hallows Eve Terror, are available wherever you get books. He lives in Southwest Missouri with his wife and daughters and their menagerie of domesticated animals.