Multilingual writersoften graduate students with more content knowledge and broader cultural experience than a monolingual tutounbalance the typical tutorclient relationship and pose a unique challenge for the writing center. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers explores how directors and tutors can better prepare for the growing number of onetoone conferences with these multilingual writers they will increasingly encounter in the future. This muchneeded addition of second language acquisition SLA research and teaching to the literature of writing center pedagogy draws from SLA literature a body of interviews Rafoth conducted with writing center directors students and tutors and his own decades of experience.