Dr. Grisel M. García Pérez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. She completed her Ph. D. at Simon Fraser University and has been teaching languages for over thirty years. She is the co-author of the series Building Through Writing and has published a number of articles in the areas of second language acquisition, language teaching, teacher education, and intercultural awareness.