Nan E. Hathaway holds a B.A. in Art and a M.A. in Special Education–Gifted and Talented. She is a licensed art educator, K-12, currently teaching at the middle school level in Duxbury, Vermont. She frequently speaks at state and national art education conferences about creativity, giftedness, and learner-directed art education. She is the author of several articles, past Chair of the National Association for Gifted Children Creativity Network, and contributor to a monograph about creativity, Perspectives in Gifted Education: Creativity.