He taught writing at the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic from 1998–2000 before eventually moving to Thailand to teach at Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University in the provincial capital of Chachoengsao.
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Described by the Midwest Book Review as a generation of "thirty-somethings who have fallen through the cracks of parental, academic, and worldly expectations," this group is given voice in Blyler's debut novel, Steffi's Club, set in the subterranean streets of Plzeň, Czech Republic, several years after the Velvet Revolution and the fall of Communism.