Nick Hahn started his career as a writer while a student at the University of Notre Dame. He went on to become President and CEO of New York-based Cotton Incorporated (Cotton, The Fabric of Our Lives). Leaving Cotton in 1999, he formed Hahn International, LTD, an agribusiness consulting group focused on economic development in emerging economies of the developing world. For twenty years, Nick has lived and worked among indigenous peoples from Africa to Asia to Eastern Europe to Latin America. His travel diaries reflect societal tensions often created by internal conflict and political unrest. Under the Skin is his first novel.

Nick is married with four children and seven grandchildren. He makes his home in rural eastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound, where he writes and narrates audiobooks.