B. A. Mullin started in SLA tutoring cohorts in America at the University of Houston where he received a BA in English with concentration in creative writing. While teaching EFL in Japan, he graduated from The University of Southern California with an MA in TESOL and TEFL. He's a current graduate student in Temple's Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics at Temple, Osaka. His academic paper are all forthcoming, but you can find his past presentations with JALT and others online and 100s of fiction and nonfiction stories he's written as well. Website: www.bamwrites.com