Philip Prowse began his ELT career as a British Council Officer for eleven years, working in Egypt, Portugal, Greece and Poland mainly in teacher education. On returning to the UK he was Director of Studies and then Principal of Bell College, Saffron Walden. Since 1993, he has been a full-time writer and freelance trainer, directing a wide range of teachers courses overseas and in Cambridge where he lives.

He has been a plenary speaker at key EFL conferences in many countries including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

He has written a dozen highly-successful guided readers and co-authored a number of coursebooks. He is Series Editor on the best-selling short course Accelerate and on Skilful,  a skills series (both for Macmillan). 

His other publications include Shine, Shine Grammars, American Shine and Inspiration.