Christine Lindop was born in New Zealand where she began her teaching career. She later taught EFL in France and Spain before settling in Great Britain, and has worked as an editor, proofreader, and writer since 1993.With Oxford University Press, Christine has worked extensively on the  Oxford Bookworms Library and is the Series Editor for  Oxford Bookworms Factfiles . Her original titles include  Sally's Phone  and  Red Roses (Starters),  Ned Kelly: A True Story (Stage 1), and  Australia and New Zealand (Stage 3). She has also adapted  Goldfish (Stage 3) and two volumes of World Stories,  The Long White Cloud: Stories from New Zealand (Stage 3) and  Doors to a Wider Place: Stories from Australia (Stage 4), and edited  A Tangled Web for the  Oxford Bookworms Collection .She has worked on many other Oxford readers series as both an editor and a writer.