Terry Kroenung

 The surprise recipient of a new heart on April 7, 2019 (at the beginning of the week he was supposed to get a new pacemaker and by the end he had another ticker), Terry has been running and cycling competitively his whole life which, his cardiologist says, is what kept him going long enough to get the transplant. 

     His humorous book about the experience, HeartSnark, was a national finalist in Memoir and Humor at national writing competitions. 

Despite having leapt out of perfectly functional Army aircraft, gone scuba diving with sharks, lived with Crips & Bloods on a wagon train, and also having been paid actual money to portray both William Shakespeare and Chuck E. Cheese (though, thankfully, not at the same time), school districts still let Terry teach their children English for 30 years.

Somehow a winner of the Colorado Gold Literary Award (Paragon of the Eccentric), he has appeared in 3 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers anthologies: Found (Colorado Book Award winner), False Faces, and Broken Links, Mended Lives (both CBA finalists). He claims to be the only author to appear in all three, and wonders why that doesn’t seem to impress anyone.

The first volume in his ongoing tongue-in-cheek fantasy series (Brimstone and Lily, Jasper’s Foul Tongue, Jasper’s Magick Corset) was a finalist in the Colorado Gold Contest and won a Bronze Medal at the Independent Publishers Book Awards. Please note that he did not get to quit his day job after such stunning success.

Visit him on the web (www.terrykroenungink.com) before WordPress realizes their mistake and evicts him from their site.