Ryan, when he isn’t writing, likes to cook, paint, read and run–six marathons and two triathlons at the top of his ticket. He has been in the Salt Lake City are for the past decade, and is a copywriter for an ad agency that specializes in cause or education-based clients. One of those campaigns was for the Smithsonian’s renovated fossil hall, which put his copy in front of the museum’s grand entrance and in newspapers and subways across the DC area.