Ian grew up in the small town of Holland Landing, Ontario. He was an avid reader and writer but leaned more toward combat sports, earning a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Karate and becoming an instructor at fourteen.

Ian attended Brock University for sociology, working as a nightclub bouncer on the side before managing Isaac’s—the Brock University campus bar. It was there he wrote his first novel, which sold and was published when he was only twenty-two years old. He would go on to publish three more horror novels before graduating.

After university, Ian signed on to work full-time as a CNC machinist at the family business, Lakewood Machine & Tool in Newmarket, Ontario. There, he began making YouTube videos on the trade and manufacturing business, which were soon picked up by Practical Machinist, the largest manufacturing community in the world.

In 2017, Ian married his wife, Brooke, and moved up north to cottage country, where they live with two dogs and two cats. It wasn’t long after that he returned to his love of writing horror. Watch for his latest, THE DEVIL'S TRANSIT, coming your way in Summer 2025, only from Rogue River!