R. M. Catton is a Psychiatrist who lives with his family in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Born and reared in New Orleans, he attended Tulane University and subsequently the LSU School of Medicine. A period of military service included Residency Training in Psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., following which he studied at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute.

Now in semi-retirement, he formerly divided his professional activity between private practice and teaching. His literary effort draws readily upon his clinical experience, civilian as well as military, in attempt to frame telling moments of the human predicament encountered along the way.