Michael Heyman is a scholar, writer, and performer of poetry, literary nonsense, music, and children’s literature. His poems and stories can be found in the journals Poetry International, Dirigible Balloon, Voicemail Poems, Solstice, and Pacific Coast Philology; and in the books The Puffin Book of Bedtime Stories, The Moustache Maharishi and other unlikely stories, and This Book Makes No Sense: Nonsense Poems and Worse, the latter of which he also edited. His volume of nonsense parodies, The Toad Not Shaken, is forthcoming from MadHat Press (2026). He is the head editor of The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense (Penguin), the first volume ever of pan-Indian nonsense literature in translation. His scholarship has appeared in the ChLA Quarterly, Bookbird, The Horn Book Magazine, European Journal of Humour Research, and The Lion and the Unicorn, where he was also a judge for the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. He has lectured around the world on nonsense literature and performs for adults and children when the fancy strikes. He is currently co-editing a new edition of Alan Watts’ Nonsense (1967). He is the Fizzbert P. Pinkbottom Endowed Chair of Nonsense at Berklee College of Music.