Chitra Soundar

Chitra Soundar

Chitra Soundar is the author of over 40 books for children for trade and education, fiction and non-fiction. She is published worldwide by trade and educational publishers. Her educational publishers include Bloomsbury Education, Penguin Random House, Capstone Press, Asiapac Books Singapore, OUP Pakistan and Hong Kong & Badger Publishing. Chitra visits schools across the world…

Julie Pratten

Julie Pratten

For three decades, Julie Pratten has designed and implemented financial and business English programs for banks and financial institutions in over 25 countries via her own company International Training Solutions. She has written numerous business and financial English publications, including Banking English, Absolute Financial English and Absolute Banking English – all published by Delta Publishing….

Sue Nicholson

Sue Nicholson

Former commissioning editor of an information/activity list at Kingfisher, Sue Nicholson has written more than 80 books for children, for publishers including DK, Ladybird, Marshall Editions, Quarto and Warne. Titles range from writing first facts and devising educational and ‘soft learning’ activity books for preschoolers, to researching and writing factual books for older children. Areas of…

Anita Loughrey

Anita Loughrey

Anita Loughrey writes teacher resources and non-fiction for primary schools as well as educational picture books on a wide variety of subjects for a wide range of educational publishers with over 100 books published in the UK and many more worldwide. Some of the most recent books she has written include a technology encyclopaedia, the first…

Miles Hudson

Miles Hudson

Miles Hudson has been writing educational materials (for money) for 20 years, and has been an SoA member for 15 years. Writing is now his full-time job.  Miles’ specialism is secondary science, particularly physics, and he has worked for Pearson, OUP, Kognity, BBC, York Press, British Council, Perimeter Institute, writing both domestic and international products. With…

Emily Guille-Marrett

Emily Guille-Marrett

Emily Guille-Marrett has worked in educational publishing for the schools and home learning market for over 20 years. She is joint Series Editor and co-author of over 80 books for Collins Education’s reading programme Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds.

Mark Griffiths

Mark Griffiths

Mark Griffiths is an author, teacher, trainer and public speaker who works primarily in the English language teaching and testing field, but has a background in language science. After graduating in Linguistics and doing his initial TEFL certificate, Mark found himself working his way up through the ranks to finish his 20’s running an English…

Philippa Gardom Hulme

Philippa Gardom Hulme

Philippa Gardom Hulme’s writing has been her main work for the past 15 years. She has written secondary science student books, teaching guides, revision guides and workbooks for OUP, Collins, Pearson, York Press and CGP, for both UK and international markets.  At the start of her authorial career, she happily accepted whatever the fee or…

Ignaty Dyakov-Richmond

Ignaty Dyakov-Richmond

Ignaty Dyakov wears several hats (apart from a deer-stalker and a faux-fur Russian hat). He has authored a series of unconventional Russian and ELT textbooks, which help students learn grammar and vocabulary through fun-to-read detective stories. They are now used at universities and schools all over the world, US, UK and France being the biggest…