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 | He was born in California, moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1964.  He attended the University of Arizona where he was a student poet.  After the university he entered the food industry, first working as a retail meat cutter and later as a chef.  Moved to Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1992 to work as an executive chef for a hotel.  He started teaching English in 2003.  Currently he is a full time Lecturer in the Language Center of the Kazakhstan Institute of Economics, Management and Strategic Research... 
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