is a journalist and painter whose poetry has appeared in a variety of print and online venues.

A botanist-turned-English-major, Hattaway has worked primarily as a business writer covering the energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. His “involved outsider” perspective on the worldof science is very much in keeping with his lifelong residency on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. It can also describe his open sense of the spiritual–a religious course steered between the absolutes of scientific atheism and the doctrinaire Catholicism of his childhood.