About the Author

Michael Heyman is a scholar and writer of nonsense and children's literature. He is an associate professor of English at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he teaches courses partly, if not wholly, nonsensical. Sumanyu Satpathy is a professor of English at Delhi University and one of the only nonsense scholars in India. He has written and edited several books, including Re-viewing Reviewing: The Reception of Modernist Poetry in the TLS (1912-1932) and Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and has published papers in various scholarly journals. Anushka Ravishankar is the only Indian nonsense writer published in English in India. Anushka's Tiger on a Tree has won several awards, including the Andersen Award in Italy, and has been included in the 2005 Notable Children's Book List by the American Library Association.