Ian Terry was born in the men’s room of a second-floor Denny’s just off Interstate 80 near Reliance, Wyoming. Reliance is a small Midwest town situated just about where the heart would be if the United States were a man, kneeling, with Florida and Maine as it’s two legs. The aforementioned Denny’s is the only two-story building in Reliance.
A man of such humble beginnings might often be assumed to have been born into the lower class of American Society. Such is not the case with Ian. His mother was a marketing genius, making her first million reselling hole-punch holes to the very institutions who donated them to her. This voluntary “recycling program” quickly became a booming confetti business for Mrs. Terry. Ian’s father was a brilliant physicist who held a regular job teaching advanced courses to students at Princeton. Mr. Terry was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for his work on advanced propulsion. His research ended tragically in 1998 after attempting to propel his 1970 Datsun 510 on the Bonneville Salt Flats with the aforementioned engine.
Ian excelled in school from Kindergarten through Community College. In third grade, he was enrolled in the gifted program, and by the fifth grade had learned to program computers and speak four languages. His formal education ended after receiving an Associate of Forestry degree from Cerro Coso Community College in 1998. Shortly after graduation, his father passed away in an automobile accident. Ian was instrumental in bringing to light the propulsion research his father had been doing which ultimately lead to his consideration, and awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
After college, Ian joined the Peace Corps and traveled the world, dazzling third world refugees and despots alike with his conifer identification skills. After witnessing first-hand the Rainforest destruction in Central and South America, Ian abandoned the Peace Corps and enlisted in the United States Army Infantry. After two years of service, he pursued and was awarded the coveted Green Beret, marking him a member of America’s Special Forces. Ian began writing during his first combat tour in Iraq. He has said his writing is a creative escape, and provides him much-needed therapy.
Ian Terry is obsessive compulsive, has not used a computer in ten years, and submits all writing assignments on paper. Ian has mild seizures whenever Stevie Nicks plays on the radio. He currently resides in a studio apartment in Wilmington, North Carolina. He is thirty years old.
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