Michael Heyman

Michael Heyman is a Professor of Nonsense at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he teaches courses on Children’s Literature and Music, Poetry, Arthropodiatry, and Nonsensical Nunchaku. He is a scholar and writer of literary nonsense and children’s literature, and the chief editor of The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense (Penguin, 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 (Scholastic, 2007), and This Book Makes No Sense: Nonsense Poems and Worse (Scholastic, 2012), the latter of which he also edited.