Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It?

Sarah Ziman was born and grew up in the South Wales valleys and is STILL learning Welsh. She wrote her first picture book at the age of 6, having been heavily influenced by the ‘Happy Families’ series by Allan Ahlberg, and 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 which travelled around as a poster on the London Underground when she was 13. She then had a little break of about 30 years, which she mostly spent lazing about eating crisps. She won the YorkMix Poems for Children Competition in 2021, has been highly commended for the Caterpillar Poetry Prize three times, and her poems can be found in magazines and anthologies worldwide. ‘Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It?’ is her first solo collection for children. You can find more about Sarah at www.sarahziman.co.uk