Ronald McGuire is a multi-genre writer, known for his work as a novelist, essayist, scriptwriter, and journalist. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in various outlets including Flash Fiction Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Winning Writers, and CNN.com. McGuire's work has earned recognition in several writing competitions, including being a finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition, The Launch Pad Prose Competition, the Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Competition, and the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest.