Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet living in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2002. The recipient of 2nd place in the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Awards for his story "No Good Deed", his latest book, La Chimère of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2020) shot up to #1 in the Psychological Literary subcategory on Amazon.
His previous book, The Chimera of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2017) was selected as the winner of the 2018 New York Festival of Books in the Romance category.
Rick is an active member and a member of the faculty at CharlotteLit. Most recently, he served as an AuthorLab mentor for a first-time novelist in the Romantic Suspense category. He also belongs to the Charlotte Writer Club, where he takes classes and participates in open mics whenever possible.
First published to the web in 1994, his hyperfiction short story “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 and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.
From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague. 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, Optimism, Ekleksographia, Prometheus Dreaming, and The Esthetic Apostle.
Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella as his thesis. In 1991, he won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story.
Rick was born on the shores of Lake Erie. From the age of three, he grew up in Batavia, New York and graduated from Pembroke Central High School.
During the day, he works as a Data and Analytics expert in the Financial Services industry. He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, two cats and a puppy.
His previous book, The Chimera of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2017) was selected as the winner of the 2018 New York Festival of Books in the Romance category.
Rick is an active member and a member of the faculty at CharlotteLit. Most recently, he served as an AuthorLab mentor for a first-time novelist in the Romantic Suspense category. He also belongs to the Charlotte Writer Club, where he takes classes and participates in open mics whenever possible.
First published to the web in 1994, his hyperfiction short story “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 and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.
From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague. 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, Optimism, Ekleksographia, Prometheus Dreaming, and The Esthetic Apostle.
Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella as his thesis. In 1991, he won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story.
Rick was born on the shores of Lake Erie. From the age of three, he grew up in Batavia, New York and graduated from Pembroke Central High School.
During the day, he works as a Data and Analytics expert in the Financial Services industry. He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, two cats and a puppy.
