After she graduated from DeSales University in 1995 with a degree in English, Teresa Messineo took a Mensa self-test for kicks, and scored in the top two-to-three percent. It was only then that she recognized “an innate talent and intelligence” that she possessed and pursued everything from coming back to DeSales to study to become a physician assistant to starting an Irish band with her four children, to learning the Tinikling dance in a Philippine dance troupe, to writing her first and highly successful novel The Fire by Night.
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