About Michael Heyman

Michael Heyman is Professor of English at Berklee College of Music. His scholarship has appeared in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly; the Horn Book Magazine; Lion and the Unicorn, where he was also a four-time judge for the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry; and IBBY’s Bookbird, where he was a guest editor for the nonsense literature special issue (2015). He is the head editor of The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense (2007). His poems and stories for children can be found in The Puffin Book of Bedtime Stories (2005), The Moustache Maharishi and Other Unlikely Stories (2007), This Book Makes No Sense: Nonsense Poems and Worse (2012), and Poetry International (2019).