Gayle Roehm is a former management consultant who now devotes herself to knitting and other fiber arts. She teaches nationally for knitting events, guilds and yarn shops. Her designs have been featured in Knitter’s, Interweave Knits, A Gathering of Lace, and other publications. She has also sold work at a fiber arts gallery. Gayle has traveled throughout the world, lived in Japan, speaks Japanese and has knitted with Japanese designs for many years. She is the translator of the "Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible" and “250 Japanese Knitting Stitches” by Hitomi Shida, "Japanese Knitting" by michiyo, “Keiko Okamoto’s Japanese Knitting Stitches,” “Wonder Crochet,” “1000 Japanese Knitting and Crochet Stitches,” and “280 Lace Stitches,” and she has edited several more. She published the first information in English about Japanese patterns in 1997 and has been working with Japanese designs ever since.