Barbara Bleiman is an education consultant at EMC and writer of fiction. Her most recent publications are What Matters in English Teaching (published March 2020, EMC) and a collection of short stories, Kremlinology of Kisses (published Oct 2020). She has written numerous publications for the classroom and leads CPD on secondary English teaching for EMC. In 2019 she was awarded the NATE Award for Outstanding Contribution to English Teaching.