Born and raised on an Iowa farm, Dennis Hathaway has worked as a newspaper reporter, construction worker and building contractor. He was director of low-income housing rehabilitation for a nonprofit housing corporation and staff member of a job training and education program for at-risk youth. He served eight years as president of a Los Angeles nonprofit fighting outdoor advertising and visual blight. His fiction has been published in print and online journals, including TriQuarterly, Georgia Review, and Southwest Review, and he was the publisher and editor of Crania, one of the earliest online literary magazines. He lives with his wife, artist Laura Silagi, in Venice, California, and writes a weekly online newsletter, An Octogenarian's Journal.
Born and raised on an Iowa farm, Dennis Hathaway has worked as a newspaper reporter, construction worker and building contractor. He was director of low-income housing rehabilitation for a nonprofit housing corporation and staff member of a job training and education program for at-risk youth. He served eight years as president of a Los Angeles nonprofit fighting outdoor advertising and visual blight. His fiction has been published in print...
The Battle of Lincoln Place is a stirring account of the courage and perseverance shown by the tenants of a large, historic apartment complex who stand up to the greed and heartlessness of their corporate landlords, whose quest for profit threatens to destroy their long-time homes. It follows four women who lead the hundreds of working class and...
The stories collected in The Consequences of Desire describe a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its often apparent absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding.
In “Counting Mercedes-Benzes,” Marshall is a directionless young man who believes he can escape his parents’ Beverly Hills lifestyle by...
These poems by award-winning author Dennis Hathaway are meditations on life and death through a variety of perspectives. In the title poem, a man reading about shipwrecked sailors driven to cannabilism is led to reflect on a particularly intense time of his youth. In The Promised Land, the boundless optimism of youth is captured in the...
