Ryan Roenfeld is a 6th generation resident of southwest Iowa and the author or co-author of numerous local historical works concerning the Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area. He has also had short fiction published by Thirteenth Floor Magazine of Omaha, Nebraska and Text-Lit Mag of Nanaimo, British Columbia, several nonfiction articles in Omaha magazine, as well as poetry by Off-Beat Pulp of Kansas City, gloomcupboard.com, and the University of Iowa's Daily Palette. Mr. Roenfeld also published extensive music reviews in the Iowa City Icon newspaper as well as the West Coast and Northeast editions of Performer Magazine.
Mr. Roenfeld graduated in 2017 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He likes to garden and learn more about con swindles. He will offer to sell you a bar of soap for $2 with the promise that one out of every five bars includes $5 inside the wrapper, one out of every 20 has a $20, and one out of 100 bars contains a crisp visage of Ben Franklin. How can you lose?