Patricia Hipwell MEd, BSc Econ (Hons), GradDip Literacy Ed, PGCE is an independent literacy consultant and bestselling author of thirteen books. She has written a number of resources to assist students' literacy development and provides professional development to educators to support the use of these resources. She has spent a lifetime educating children and teachers to develop literacy strategies and specialises in assisting all educators to be literacy teachers, especially high school subject specialists, who often struggle with how to combine content area and literacy teaching.