Cherryl Smith is coauthor of Writing Your Way Through College (2008). She is Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento and director of the Writing Center. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. She taught previously at Harvard University and California State University, Northridge, and coordinated programs of the South Coast Writing Project. Cherryl has published articles about writing program administration and teaching writing and coauthored Shoptalk for College Writers with Sheryl Fontaine. Her recent book of poetry is After Being Somewhere Else.