John Boe received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Lecturer Emeritus at UC Davis, where he taught for thirty years and edited the journal Writing on the Edge (WOE). He recently co-edited "Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989-2017." He has published various articles on Shakespeare, including two included in his collection "Life Itself: Messiness is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays": "To Kill Mercutio: Thoughts on Shakespeare's Psychological Development" and "The Introvert in Shakespeare." He also wrote about Cymbeline for the "Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare." He won First Prize in the 1991 H.R. Roberts Literary Awards, Informal Essay category, and has won teaching prizes from UC Davis and Phi Beta Kappa. He wrote his answers to his own questions at his home in Berkeley.