Eugene Byrne (born 25 February 1959) is an English freelance journalist and fiction writer.
[1] His story "HMS Habakkuk" was nominated for a Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
[2] He was born in Waterford in the Republic of Ireland, but was brought up in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.
He attended Dr Morgan's Grammar School, Bridgwater where he met Kim Newman.
In 2006, as part of Bristol's Isambard Kingdom Brunel bicentennial celebrations, he wrote Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic Biography with artist Simon Gurr.