Liliana Moya is a native of Chile and has a Bachelor's degree in English from the Universidad de Ciencias de la Educación de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso, Chile. She taught English as a foreign language in Santiago for 5 years before moving to the United States to pursue her Master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language at Minnesota State University Mankato. Since completing her degree in 1994 she has been working in the Public School System teaching ESL.