A poet, Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor, is the author of a book of poems, Imperfect Tense, (2016). A Fulbright Scholar-Artist, she conducted a nine-month, peripatetic and poetic study of adult Spanish language acquisition in Oaxaca, Mexico. A graduate of the New England College low-residency MFA program and the University of Pennsylvania’s Educational Linguistics doctoral program, her poems, essays, and articles about language learning have appeared in numerous literary and scholarly journals linked on her blog: http://teachersactup.com. She lives in Athens, GA with her husband and two children and their rescue dog, Bagel.