Michael J. Hathaway was raised in central Kansas where he lives happily in his childhood home with his little family of felines (or "cosmic children" as he refers to them). He works as Keeper of History for Stafford County and part-time for his veterinarian. He's worked many day jobs to enable his poetry habit including typesetter, society editor and librarian. He serves on the city library board and is an ordained minister of Spiritual Science. He founded Chiron Review literary journal in 1982. He's had 11 books of poetry and prose published as well as 300+ poems in journals and anthologies. He was founding chairman of Poetry Rendezvous that celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2013. For more information about Chiron Review: http://chironreview.com.Among the journals and anthologies where his poetry has appeared are: Abbey; Alchemist Review; Always the Beautiful Answer: A Prose Poem Primer (Kings Estate Press); Anemone; Arroyo Violent Virgin Series; Art:mag; Atom Mind; Baker Street Irregular; The Barn Red Door; Beggars & Cheeseburgers; Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse; Blank Gun Silencer; Blind Horse Review; Bukowski and Serial Killers; Calliope's Corner; Cat Fancy; Cerulean Anthology of Sci-Fi/Outer Space/Fantasy Poetry and Prose Poems; Chance Magazine; Cripes!; Daring Poetry Quarterly; A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry (Barricade Books); Das Ist Alles: Charles Bukowski Recollected (Pearl Editions); Dog River Review; Famous Last Words; gestalten [experimental poetry]; 5AM; The Forum for Universal Spokesmen; Golden Isis; Green Guts; Gypsy; Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal; Home Planet News; Howling Dog; Impetus; The James White Review; Kings Estate Press anthologies; Kumquat Meringue; The Louisiana Review; Lucid Moon; Lunatic Chameleon; Manna; Medicinal Purposes; Micro2: An Anthology of Really Short Fiction; The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought; Minotaur; misnomer; Mutated Viruses; Nerve Cowboy; New Sins; Non-Prophet postcard series; Northwest Gay & Lesbian Reader; Nothing Sinister; one (dog) press; one hundred suns; One Trick Pony; ONTHEBUS, The Orange Room (on-line); Parnassus Literary Journal; Pearl; Prairie Smoke (Pueblo Poetry Project); Proof Rock; Psychopoetica (England); Pudding; Quercus Review; RFD: A Country Journal for Gay Men Everywhere; Ransom; Raw Bone; Re)Verb; River Rat Review; Silver Wings; Simple Vows; Skidrow Penthouse; Skin & Bones; Staplegun; Stovepiper; Sundog: The Southeast Review; The Temple; Thirteen; Up Against the Wall, Mother; Van Gogh's Ear (France); Vowel Movement (Aileron Press); Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream; Wormfeast; The Wire; Xenophilia and Zen Tattoo.