About J.H. Hayes:

J. H. Hayes is a native Texan raised by loving parents in a Houston suburb. He studied Photography and Journalism at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M at Commerce), where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 1985. After college he had a successful career in sales management which developed his ability to better comprehend the needs of others and communicate more effectively. In 1993 he became an AIDS and Civil Rights activist in Austin, where he published his original music and essays and produced an educational public access television program with the nonprofit he founded. A writer all his life, he did not have the desire to publish until AIDS and discrimination motivated the creation of a vehicle for expression. In 2000 he returned to Houston to be near his beloved Mother, and continued a successful career in business management while compiling genealogy and contemplating heritage. In 2009 he contributed his genealogical writing to the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research. Since 2009 he has been involved with charitable projects. He and his husband now live near Houston, where he continues to focus on his writing: no longer swimming upstream.