Beverly Joan Boulware is a literacy specialist who has taught elementary children and middle grades learners. She encourages them to understand and use language through reading, classroom discussion and creative writing. Her love of words and books are evidenced by her enthusiastic teaching, numerous presentations at educational conferences and scholarly publications in literacy journals. Dr. Boulware received her Doctorate degree in Reading Education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Presently she is a Professor of Literacy Education at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in the College of Education.