Joshua Seigal is an internationally renowned poet, performer and educator. His first book with Bloomsbury, I Don't Like Poetry, was nominated for the Laugh Out Loud Award, an award Joshua has subsequently won numerous times. He is also a recipient of The People's Book Prize (UK), and has performed at schools and festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Book Festival and the Cheltenham Literature Festival. He is an Official Ambassador for National Poetry Day UK, and has been commissioned to write and perform for the BBC. Joshua has an MA in Writing and Education from Goldsmiths, University of London, and can normally be found running poetry workshops and performances in schools, either online or in real life.

Joshua’s books are popular with children throughout the world. They include I Don’t Like Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2016), Little Lemur Laughing (Bloomsbury, 2017), I Bet I Can Make You Laugh (Bloomsbury, 2018), Welcome to My Crazy Life (Bloomsbury, 2020), Yapping Away (Bloomsbury, 2021), Who Let the Words Out? (Bloomsbury, 2023), Poetry Is Not for Me! (HarperCollins, 2023) and I Am (HarperColline, 2024). His poems are published in numerous anthologies.