found: Tregillis, Ian. Bitter seeds, 2010:ECIP t.p. (Ian Tregillis) data view (lives near Santa Fe, NM where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos Laboratory. Bitter seeds is his 1st novel.)
found: iantregillis.com, Apr. 15, 2011(graduate of University of Minnesota, including a Ph.D. in physics; lives in northern New Mexico)
found: booktionary.blogspot.com, Apr. 15, 2011(from Minnesota, grew up in the Twin Cities)
found: Linkedin, WWW, Apr. 15, 2011(B.S. in Physics, Astrophysics--1991-1995; PhD. in Physics--1997-2002)