Michael Lacey Freeman has been working in the field of English Language Teaching for 30 years, both as a University teacher and ELT author. He is also a storyteller and has travelled extensively around Italy and other parts of the world to tell his stories, and spread the message that words are powerful. He has published and written material for many course books and twelve of his graded readers have been published, five of which have won extensive reading foundation language learner literature awards. In 2017 he was invited to be on the board of directors of the Extensive Reading Foundation.