Sarah Ziman
Author
Sarah Ziman was born and grew up in the South Wales valleys (and is STILL learning Welsh).
Sarah wrote her first picture book at the age of 6, having been inspired by the Happy Families series by Allan Ahlberg. She subsequently discovered poetry when her Dad bought her a copy of Please Mrs Butler (also by Allan Ahlberg). She had a poem published in a book when she was 11, followed by one that travelled around as a poster on the London Underground when she was 13.
Sarah then had a little break of about 30 years, which she mostly spent lazing about eating crisps.
Since picking up her pen again she has won the YorkMix Poems for Children Competition (2021), been highly commended in the Caterpillar Poetry Prize three times, and had poems published in magazines and anthologies worldwide.
Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It? is her first solo collection for children.
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