Ryan Foley

Ryan has been a professional writer and editor for close to three decades. He spent the first seven years of his career as an award-winning sports editor and writer for various newspapers in the New England area and followed that with five years as a magazine editor. Since then, he has dabbled in public relations and marketing for various companies. Additionally, he was a freelance music journalist for more than a decade during which his byline appeared in numerous prominent alternative weekly newspapers across the U.S.

Ryan's first book, Manchester City - The Genuine Soap Opera Club, was released by Legends Publishing in October 2023. His second book, 1978: The Birth of Moneyed Modern Football, was released by Pitch Publishing in March 2025.

Career highlights:

• Won a New England Press Association award for a story on NASCAR. (Also didn't watch a single nanosecond of the race.)

• Byline appeared numerous times in The Village Voice. (Would brag that it was above the fold, but it's an alternative weekly. There is no fold!)

• Engaged in a warm-hearted discussion on the topic of McDonald's French fries with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne. (Then arm-wrestled over the #1 dipping sauce. Or didn't.)

• Oversees all aspects of content creation for a company that provides lending technology and marketing automation solutions to one-third of the top 30 mortgage lenders in the country. (The gig that pays the bills.)