Andy Boyle loves telling stories about people thrown into awful situations. A longtime journalist, his writing has been featured in Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, and The New York Times Regional Media Group, where his work was cited in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. He’s published two nonfiction books with Penguin Random House and has had his short fiction published in Rock and a Hard Place magazine, with more coming soon. He lives in Chicago.