David Dayton:  

David attended Northwestern University for two years and then transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC); he graduated from there in 1974 with an independent major in creative writing and literary criticism. In 1976, David married Nancy Cavallaro, who graduated from UCSC that year. They moved to Ithaca, New York, where Nancy earned a PhD in soil chemistry from Cornell University while David worked as a typesetter for The Cornell Daily Sun, and also wrote and published poetry. From 1982 to 1985, they lived in Mexico, where Nancy worked as a professor and researcher at Mexico's Postgraduate College in agricultural sciences. Their children Talya and Matthew were born in Mexico City. The family then lived in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, from 1985 to 2001, where Nancy was a college professor and David earned a master's in English Education and joined the faculty of the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, which supported his doctoral studies at Texas Tech University from 1996 to 1998. He finished his PhD in technical communication in 2001 and taught for four years at Southern Polytechnic State University in th...Expand for more