My Sneezes Are Perfect: Poems For Children

About Rakhshan Rizwan

Rakhshan Rizwan works as an Acquisitions Editor. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University. Her poetry pamphlet Paisley (The Emma Press 2017) was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award and the Michael Marks Poetry Prize. Her collection of childrens poetry My Sneezes are Perfect (The Emma Press 2021) documents the difficulties of moving countries and living through a pandemic from the perspective of a young child. Her book Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan (Routledge 2020) looks at how Kashmiri authors use innovative languages of happiness to do human rights advocacy. Her writing has appeared in Aaduna Nimrod Postcolonial Text and Blue Lyra Review among others. She is on the editorial team of the childrens poetry journal Tyger Tyger Magazine. She is from Lahore Pakistan has lived in Germany and the Netherlands and currently lives in the Bay Area of North California US. Yusuf Samee is 6 years old. He is a first-grade student at Twin Creeks Elementary School. He likes collecting rocks and leaves growing vegetables and playing with numbers in his mind. He was born in the city of Delft in The Netherlands and now lives in the Bay Area in California. Benjamin Phillips is an artist and illustrator based in Hastings. From his studio by the sea he creates ceramics paintings and illustrative work. Benjamin enjoys drawing dogs and a cold beverage. Sometimes all at the same time. benjaminphillips.co.uk