Elijah Byrnes

Elijah Byrnes is a business development writer at Tully Rinckey America Service Corporation, where he supports the firm’s marketing and business development goals. His background has positioned him to collaborate on a spectrum of writing projects, from the informal and creative to the professional and academic.

Before joining the Tully Rinckey Marketing team, Elijah was a screenwriter for a New Mexican screen production company, working with fellow writers and producers to tell compelling stories and build effective pitch packages.

Elijah was also a teacher. First, he taught academic writing and research at the University at Buffalo, then philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Teaching philosophy was a matter of translating complex ideas into a form both accessible and relevant to university students without sacrificing nuance or accuracy. Finding clear and convincing ways to communicate complicated ideas—whether literary, philosophical, or legal—turned out to be a puzzle far more engaging than the ideas themselves. Now, Elijah gets to solve these sorts of puzzles every day with the Marketing Department.

Elijah holds a master’s in comparative literature from the University at Buffalo, and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He has published and presented at the professional level across the world on myriad topics in the humanities, including Japanese poetics and translation, totalitarianism, juridical personhood, and philosophies of death.

When he is not writing, editing, and researching alongside the Tully Rinckey Marketing Department, Elijah is taking his dog on adventures in the Adirondacks (and then purging said Adirondacks from her considerable fur).