Stephen Byrne is an Irish chef and writer currently living in Chicago. He has been published worldwide in places such as Poets Reading the News, Rats Ass Review, Warscapes, Indian Review, Tuck Magazine, RædLeafPoetry-India, The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology and many others. His forthcoming first collection Somewhere but not Here won the RL Poetry Award, 2016 International category. He is the food writer for This is Galway website.