Veronica Jayne received a B.A. from The Evergreen State College in Washington, where she studied Bilingual Education and Teaching as well as Arab-African Postcolonial Literature.  Following this, she earned an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Toledo, Ohio, where she focused on ESL Composition.   She also studied Spanish and Portuguese in South America, then taught English in South Korea and China during this time.  Her education culminates with a PhD in Second Language Studies from Purdue University in Indiana, where she researched Learning Communities and interactive writing.  She has had over a decade of teaching experience and loves being in the classroom and seeing her students develop their language and writing skills.  When she’s not teaching, she enjoys spending time with her family, hiking in the Rocky Mountains, and traveling.