Larry Barkley has been teaching for nearly 35 years at both public and private colleges and universities. For the last 24 years he has taught various levels of English at MSJC. His publications have appeared in Fine Gardening, The Carousel News & Trader, Gissing Newsletter, Chaucer Review, inside english, and TETYC. He has presented at the League for Innovation in Community Colleges’ Conference on Information Technology, the ECCTYC Statewide Conference, NISOD, International Wizard of Oz Club Conference, and Cengage Learning’s TeamUP Developmental Education Conference. He co-authored, with Rise Axelrod and Charles Cooper, the 4th and 5th editions of Sticks and Stones and Other Student Essays. His newest book, co-authored with Christine Sandoval, Grammar and Usage, Naturally, from Cengage Publishing, was released December 2013.