Rick Byrne is a writer, dad to three girls, and runner who wakes in the dark and is happiest on a counter stool at a diner with hot black coffee and a pile of eggs and meats. His fiction has appeared in the 2026 Autumn edition of The Good Life Review, The Caribbean Writer, Switch, BULL, the Ink In Thirds 10th Anniversary Issue, and is forthcoming in NUNUM's Done in a Hundred anthology. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. He lives outside Boston, 3.7 miles from the grammar school he attended, rides the T whenever he can, and believes Brigham's vanilla is the only tangible proof of a divine being.​