Theodore Anthony Kosmatka was born December 16, 1973 in northwest Indiana, and was raised in Chesterton IN. He studied biology and chemistry at Indiana University, and worked as a zookeeper, steel mill worker, and laboratory research tech before becoming a writer for video game company Valve in 2009 (a job he describes as ‘‘like working in heaven, and your big fear is being kicked out of paradise.’’) Kosmatka has five