Chris Lux Hayes works as the senior writer and photographer in the marketing department for two colleges, one technical, one community. He writes two campus news blogs, DCTC News and Inver Hills News, and photographs college and community events for DCTC and Inver Hills Flickr albums. Chris resides in primordial Minnesota in a six-acre arboretum with his wife, Ginny, and two Pumik (singular: Pumi) named CH MACH7 Csilla and Skookum, aka Little Skooks, and one 95-pound giant schnauzer named Gungnir, aka Gunny, Guns, and/or Big Money. Equipped with a black belt in taekwondo, a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, and a decades-long interest in jnana yoga, Chris enjoys photographing insects and other bugs, resulting in Escape to the Bughouse on Flickr. You can read his author blog with the same name on this website. He also likes to create AI art, resulting in a NightCafe creation page.