Ryan Byrnes

Ryan Byrnes

Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Volunteer Experience

  • NAACP Graphic

    NAACP Dubuque Branch

    NAACP

    - 1 year 5 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    I volunteered on the MLK Tribute Committee, to organize an art contest among local school children to produce essays and artworks inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.
    I volunteered on the Captain Martin Fundraising Subcommittee as a grant writer to help rename the Dubuque airport terminal after a local Tuskegee Airman.

  • Immigrant Home English Learning Program Graphic

    Partner

    Immigrant Home English Learning Program

    - 6 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    I wrote a novel and organized a subsequent book tour to raise funds, spread publicity, and seek volunteers for the Immigrant Home English Learning Program, a non-profit that provides literacy resources and more to immigrants and refugees.

Publications

  • "Ordinary Time"

    December Magazine

    Short story, literary fiction

    See publication

  • "Beforelife"

    Pembroke Magazine

    Short story, speculative literary fiction

    See publication

  • "One Last Lemon Soda in Tunis"

    Sixfold Magazine

    Short story, historical fiction

  • Book Review: Eternal

    New York Journal of Books

    See publication

  • Book Review: Libertie

    New York Journal of Books

  • Book Review: The Children's Train

    New York Journal of Books

    I wrote a book review of the The Children's Train for the New York Journal of Books.

  • "Sicilian Pompadour"

    Italian America Magazine

    Flash fiction, literary/historical fiction

  • Royal Beauty Bright

    Amphorae Publishing Group

    Literary/historical fiction novel

    See publication

  • "Saint Valentine's Toilet"

    Sketch Magazine

    Short story, comedy

  • Heir to the Otherworld

    Avency Press

    Young adult fantasy novel

  • The Kingdom of Stone

    Avency Press

    Young adult fantasy novel

  • The Conquest of Shadow

    Avency Press

    Young adult fantasy novel

  • The Adventures of Wheatail

    Avency Press

    Illustrated children's book

  • The Crystals of Kings

    Avency Press

    Young adult fantasy novel

Projects

  • University Rover Challenge, Mars Rover Team Lead

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    University Rover Challenge is an engineering design contest where students from around the world build and compete Mars robers. In this group, I participated as team lead to design and manufacture a robotic soil collection and analysis system for a student-built Mars rover, MAVRIC.

  • NASA Big Idea Challenge Team Lead

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    NASA Big Idea Challenge is an engineering competition that seeks design proposals from students in the USA. For this competition, I started a team at Iowa State University, collaborated to design Mars lander technology, and submitted a formal proposal to NASA researchers for consideration.

Honors & Awards

  • Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition

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  • Independent Publisher Book Award

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    Gold medal in the military fiction category.

  • Finalist, INDIE Book of the Year Award

    Foreword Reviews

    My book is a finalist for book of the year in the military fiction category.

  • Richard Caplan Sketch Prize for Fiction Writing

    Iowa State University

  • National Merit Scholar

    National Merit Scholarship Corporation

    Based on the top percentile of SAT scores, an application, and academic merit, about 8200 students nationwide are selected from the 1.5 million juniors who take the PSAT/NMSQT annually.

  • American Legion Award

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