Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet, best known for his hyperfiction short story "LIES" goo.gl/TgCSHx
"LIES" has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal, SHIFT magazine, and several other publications in print and online. It is cited in more than seven books, has been translated into Spanish and Chinese, and continues to be featured on the curriculae at several institutions of higher learning.
From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague, in the Czech Republic. While there he published two books including Displaced (foolishness press, 1998) and Wallow (foolishness press, 1999). His stories and poems have been featured on the pages of Think and Optimism, and in online publications including ekleksographia, Lovers and Thinkers, Prometheus Dreaming and The Esthetic Apostle. Wallow won a Certificate of Merit in the 2000 Self-Published Books Awards.
Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella entitled Goliath as his thesis. In 1991, Rick won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story ("Pathbeater").
Rick and his wife, painter Holly Spruck, live and work in Charlotte, North Carolina. They have two children and three cats.
Rick originally hails from Dunkirk, New York on the shores of Lake Erie. At the age of three, his family moved to Batavia, New York. He graduated from Pembroke Central High School.
His novel "The Chimera of Prague" was the 2018 winner of the Romance category of the New York Festival of Books.
"LIES" has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal, SHIFT magazine, and several other publications in print and online. It is cited in more than seven books, has been translated into Spanish and Chinese, and continues to be featured on the curriculae at several institutions of higher learning.
From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague, in the Czech Republic. While there he published two books including Displaced (foolishness press, 1998) and Wallow (foolishness press, 1999). His stories and poems have been featured on the pages of Think and Optimism, and in online publications including ekleksographia, Lovers and Thinkers, Prometheus Dreaming and The Esthetic Apostle. Wallow won a Certificate of Merit in the 2000 Self-Published Books Awards.
Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella entitled Goliath as his thesis. In 1991, Rick won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story ("Pathbeater").
Rick and his wife, painter Holly Spruck, live and work in Charlotte, North Carolina. They have two children and three cats.
Rick originally hails from Dunkirk, New York on the shores of Lake Erie. At the age of three, his family moved to Batavia, New York. He graduated from Pembroke Central High School.
His novel "The Chimera of Prague" was the 2018 winner of the Romance category of the New York Festival of Books.
