Ryan Alan Boyle is an editor, writer, and music journalist. He earned a masters degree in American history from the University of Florida, and has written and edited liner note essays for acclaimed archival albums released by the Numero Group—including Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label, Local Customs: Cavern Sound, Joanna Brouk's Hearing Music, and The Royal Jesters' English Oldies, among others. His fiction is forthcoming from Opossum and Fiction Southeast, and has been shortlisted for the Mighty River Short Story Contest, the Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest, and the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.