Tom Igou was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, a small mill town in the Appalachian foothills. Fort Payne is the self-proclaimed sock capital of the world. He grew up one-hundred miles away in Athens, Alabama. Following his graduation from Auburn University, he began his career in the aerospace industry working for a NASA contractor in nearby Huntsville, Alabama. For many years, Tom made Huntsville his home.

Tom prospered as a sales and marketing executive, managing teams for three major computer graphics companies. An avid outdoorsman, Tom hunts, fishes, and collects Native American artifacts. He loved tending his Tennessee cattle farm, and now enjoys farming his New Mexico hay farm.

Tom has traveled the world for both work as well as pleasure. His career took him to thirty different countries and included living in the Netherlands, where his older son, Bill, was born. Later, he spent a decade of Christmas holidays sailing the Caribbean, exploring different islands with his family.

Before this memoir, Tom’s writing experience was purely business oriented, however it was the loss of his younger son, Nick, to suicide that inspired him to write Nick of Time. In his book, Tom shares his pursuit to find peace and understanding despite an overwhelming accumulation of past trauma. Tom Igou writes in order to help others heal from past trauma.

Tom is a survivor, a shepherd, and a warrior.