Craig A. Morgan was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. He spent three years as a young child living in Scheveningen, The Netherlands with his family. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston in 1989. He has a Master of Arts in teaching English as a foreign language from the University of Reading in Reading, England. He began his teaching career in 1992 teaching English to Mexican immigrants at a local community center in Chicago. Craig emigrated to Japan in 1993 on a three-year teaching program sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education. In 1996, after the completion of his contract, he was offered a teaching position at a primary school in Tuchlovice, the Czech Republic. He has been living in Kladno in the Czech Republic with his wife, teach English at Kladno Gymnasium and The Business Academy in Kladno.