Vagabond. Author. Soldier. Cynic. Idealist.

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Some say Iyan Igma wasn’t hugged enough as a child. Others think that he’s a prophet or visionary. Still others think he only has eight toes. Of course, those are just the people that live inside his head.

The real Iyan Igma is a mischievous, meddling, mediocre megalomaniac who hails from South Georgia but is a transplant to beautiful, desolate Montana. Most people wouldn’t think that he’s as strange as his writings would make him appear. He likes peace and quiet, although he never gets any. He has been aptly described as one who apparently goes around breaking mirrors (purely in self-defense, though,) and one who has no life.

Iyan tries to miss a meal occasionally in order to pretend like he is a starving artist. Don’t worry, he has no intention to quit his day job soon

Iyan has owed his soul to the Army since 2009. In between field training exercises and deployment, he goes to college, writes in the spare moments he has to make, and sleeps occasionally. That seems to be the general plan for the next short eternity.

To date, he has written more than 1,000 poems (though several are private,) in styles such as haikus, quatrains, sonnets, couplets, triplets, limericks, free verse, blank verse, and nonsense, etc. But, he has found that 1,000 poems into his career, everything starts to seem the same. He’s also written several short stories and essays, but who really cares about that?

His favorite poets are Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alexander Pope, and Dr. Seuss. He loves Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, and many other Renaissance and Enlightenment era authors. Mythology of any sort is fascinating to him, just like writing in the third person.

He stays busy, trying to be outdoors as much as time permits. He loves to hike, camp, swim, cycle, run, canoe, etc. If he has to be indoors, he prefers to play racquetball.

At the end of the day, he always wonders how he got himself into such a mess.

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