Charles Ghigna
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Charles Ghigna

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Charles Ghigna - Father Goose® lives in a tree house in the middle of Alabama. He is a poet, children’s author, nationally syndicated feature writer, and the author of more than 5000 poems and 250 books and anthologies for children and adults from the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee Returning to Earth to the popular children's books THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR'S FIRST POEMS illustrated by Eric Carle and THE FATHER GOOSE TREASURY OF POETRY: 101 Poems for Children. His books are published by Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others. His poems for adults have been published in numerous journals and magazines including Harper’s, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Saturday Evening Post and The Wall Street Journal. His poems for children appear in Highlights for Children, Cricket, Ranger Rick, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Spider, Ladybug, Babybug, Caterpillar, Children’s Digest and The School Magazine. Ghigna served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and has received fellowship grants and various awards and recognitions from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Library of Congress. A popular speaker at schools, conferences, libraries, he has spoken at the American Library in Paris, and at schools and conferences in South America, Alaska, and throughout the U.S. and overseas. FUN FACT: Father Goose does NOT own a cell phone!
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