Teacher
A professional educator, as well as a writer, D.A. Blyler left the United States in 1997, after attending graduate school at Appalachian State University. He taught writing at the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic from 1998-2000 before eventually moving to Thailand to teach at Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University in the provincial capital of Chachoengsao. Blyler later moved to Sakon Nakhon to become a faculty member of Kasetsart University, where he began writing a comprehensive "thinking skills" textbook for Thais. In 2007, he developed the reading content and test material for SpeedBook, an advanced reading and learning system used by students across South Korea.
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