Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer and international author from Canada. He is the main author of Macmillan’s new adult course Global (2010) and was a part of the author team for the popular Straightforward Series. Lindsay has won prestigious recognition for his writing, most notably for Dealing with Difficulties (Delta Publishing, with co-author Luke Prodromou) which earned him a visit to Buckingham Palace to receive an award from the Duke of Edinburgh.

After teaching in Mexico, Spain and the UK Lindsay began his writing career with the website Onestopenglish. He became a regular after winning the Lesson Share competition three times in a row. He has participated on numerous projects with Onestop, and has written something for that site almost every month for the past five years.

Lindsay has addressed teachers and given workshops in more than 20 countries. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals relating to ELT and he has written a column on language teaching for the Guardian Weekly newspaper. He is the founder of Pecha Kucha ELT (a form of short presentation) and writes a popular blog for teachers www.sixthings.net, a collection of miscellany from the world of English Language Teaching.

Lindsay still teaches in the small town of Elche in southern Spain, where he lives with his wife and two sons.