KAYLENE POWELL (MA TESOL and Intercultural Studies, Wheaton College Graduate School) resides in eastern Nebraska where she works as a writing consultant, adult ESL instructor, editor, author, and tutor. She served with an educational NGO for twelve years, just over eight of those years as an EFL teacher and teacher trainer-mentor in three different regions of mainland China. She has also instructed students from a wide variety of other countries in American ESL settings. In addition to writing academically and developing curriculum, she is also an author of both poetry and fiction.