has been working as a teacher, teacher trainer, translator and materials writer for nearly twenty years.For a long time he worked for the British Council in Italy, where he was responsible for integrating arts and education work. Since then, he has also worked in India, Germany, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon and Russia. His chief ELT interests are literature in language teaching, creative writing activities, extended reading, storytelling and language change. He is currently is an associate trainer at NILE, a materials writer for Macmillan Education and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham.