Stephen Byrne was born in north Dublin and now lives in Chicago. He is a Chef with over 20 years experience and has worked in Galway, Australia and Canada and lived in San Francisco. His poetry and articles have appeared in many journals and magazines worldwide in print or online including The Poetry Bus, Galway Review, The Blue Hour, Boyne Berries, RædLeafPoetry-India and many more.
He is an award winning writer and won the RL Poetry Award, 2016 in the international category.
His work has also been translated into Russian for the Nasha Gazeta journal and newspaper, Dublin edition.
He was shortlisted for The Redline Book Festival Poetry Competition 2014 as well as shortlisted 2011 and longlisted 2014 for ‘Over the Edge’ Poetry competition.
In 2012 he collaborated with 6 Galway based poets known collectively as ‘The Tuesday Knights’ on an poetry anthology called Wayword Tuesdays including a local based artist and photographer. The book was short listed for Writing Magazines Writers’ Circle Anthology Award.
He has read at many venues throughout Ireland including Over the Edge in Galway, Northwest Words in Donegal and The Redline Book Festival Dublin.
Stephen has also guest edited for Scissors & Spackle and now Emerge Literary Journal under the careful guidance and patience of Ariana D. Den Bleyker. He was also now an Associate editor with ELJ Publications.
He is a fitness freak, history and Science geek and has studied under Professor Mohamed Noor in the Introduction to Genetics and Evolution course provided by Duke University and Coursera.
In 2017 he set up his own Personal Chef and catering company called Odes of Food.
You can contact him here or on his main site, or in many of the usual social media hangouts you can see up above.
