Ryan Eaton Marshall is a wildlife behaviourist specializing in bear ecology, and moonlights as a conditioning coach and storyteller. He lives in the United States of America, except when he doesn't. He theoretically owns a pet-rock farm with his husband, Pedro. Ryan has been sharing his short stories on tumblr and gainer-adjacent internet forums since 2020. He hasn't committed arson. Not yet, anyway. He owns eight patents, including his invention of the abstract moderately-micro nano-N-flation neutrino nullifier ("mmnnfnn" for short). "Gaining and You: Varied Opinions, Recitations, Etc." is Ryan's first collection of short stories in an official literary publication.