Ian Taylor Presnell ipresnel@gmail.com is forty-years-old He loves professional wrestling, animals, music, and complaining. He lives in Upstate NY with his beautiful reference-librarian girlfriend Allison and their two cats Wayne and Garth. The last four great books he read were Waiting For the End of the World, The Underwater Welder, Patience, and Leaving Las Vegas. His mother Dee is a blues singer, and his Father Don from North Carolina was an avid reader and listener of music, especially Elton John, Tom Petty and The Boss.
His favorite authors are Ayn Rand, David Foster Wallace, Brett Ellis, Stephen King, Salinger, Faulkner, Hemingway, Mailer, Christopher Pike, George R. R. Martin, DeLillo, Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, R. L. Stine., and Hubert Selby Jr. Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard), Silence of the Lambs, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), and First Blood (Rambo) are four of his favorite books. Favorite Short Story: A Good Man is Hard to Find