Charles Ghigna - Father Goose(R) is a poet, children's author, and nationally syndicated feature writer. He is the author of more than 5,000 poems and 100 books for children and adults ranging from the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee Returning to Earth to the popular children's book The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry for Children. His books have been published by Disney, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Whitman, and others. His poems for adults have been published in 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. In 2018, Ghigna partnered with illustrator Michelle Hazelwood Hyde to author a book for then Whitman Publishing titled Alabama My Home Sweet Home, celebrating Alabama's 200th anniversary in the United States and highlighting its history, culture, and heritage. 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, colleges, conferences, and libraries, Ghigna has spoken at the American Library in Paris, the American International Schools in the Americas in South America and Alaska, and at other events throughout the U.S. and overseas. For more information, please visit FatherGoose.com.