Biographical note

Mickey Rogers graduated from the University of Texas and went on to teach there after gaining a Masters in TEFL. While in graduate school, Mickey began teaching at the University of Texas Intensive English Program in Austin, where she taught off and on for about 10 years. After finishing her Master’s in TEFL, Mickey went onto teacher in Spain, San Francisco and Mexico City. At Macmillan, Mickey has worked as a teacher trainer, a sales rep, an editor, a managing editor, a manager of academic services, and finally as a freelance author. She has co-authored openMind, Style, Skyline and Attitude. Steve Taylore-Knowles has been involved in ELT for over 20 years as a teacher, examiner, trainer and author. He holds BA (Hons) and MA degrees from the University of Warwick and is a Licentiate of Trinity College, London (Dip TESOL). His most recent courses, published by Macmillan, are Open Mind (2014) and the American English Mind series. He has also written a number of other successful courses including Laser and Destination. He served on the Executive Board of TESOL Greece and regularly speaks on various aspects of English Language Teaching at conferences and events around the world. He has now relocated to his home county of Lancashire in the north-west of England, where he lives with his wife and young daughter. He regularly speaks on various aspects of ELT at conferences and events around the world and enjoys the fact that his work takes him to so many diverse places. When he's not working Steve tries to find time to go fishing and learn golf. Joanne Taylore-Knowles moved out to Greece, where she worked as an English language teacher. She taught a range of students there, from young learners up to adults. Kate Fuscoe. Joanna Welling.