Christopher Allen has taught EFL in Germany for 15 years and is working on finishing a role play-based course for advanced learners of Business English: International Business Idioms. A native Tennessean, Allen also writes creative non-fiction, humor and Southern literature. His work has appeared in Barack H. Obama: Vision to Victory, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People and Gathering: Writers of Williamson County, as well as in the ezines Ruthless Peoples Magazine, Flash Fire 500, Flashshot and Metazen.