About the author
Dana Wayne Haley was born and raised in West Glenburn, Maine, and served in the U. S. Army from 1965 to 1967. He graduated from the University of Maine with a BS/MS in electrical engineering in 1975, working in the Boston area until 1992 as a design engineer, lead electrical engineer, project engineer, and independent consultant specializing in infrared system design and development. He also served as the chief engineer responsible for development of a large screen projection TV in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Haley won the Honeywell Electro-Optics Operations Technical Achievement Award and the prestigious H. W. Sweatt Engineer-Scientist Award in 1981. He was also an online editor, journalist, and writer (1997-2000) for Maine RoundBALL Magazine before leaving to concentrate on writing the novels Journey With the Comet: Beautiful Dreamer; Journey With the Comet: The Journey Continues; and The Omieja Project: Adventure on the Appalachian Trail.
He currently lives in Orono, Maine.