William C Obl S B EngelsWilliam C. Engels, Obl.S.B., was born in Seattle, Washington, and spent his childhood throughout the U.S. and in three European countries, Germany, Italy, and Greece, as the son of a career army serviceman. He received his B.A. in 1983 from the Univesity of Arkansas and M.A. in 1992 and Ph.D. in 1998 from Saint Louis University, all in English Literature. He taught writing and literature for a total of seven years in Mongolia and South Korea and six years in Bangladesh, where he also served as an elementary school principal. Dr. Engels currently tutors part-time at the Graduate Writing Center at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He is an Oblate of Saint Benedict with Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas. His present hiking venture is a west-east walk, in stages, across the continental U.S. Read More Read Less