Morag Styles was Professor of Children’s Poetry at the University of Cambridge and is an Emeritus Fellow at Homerton College. She is the author of From the Garden to the Street: 300 years of poetry for children, and has written widely on children’s poetry and picturebooks, edited several volumes on children’s literature, and is editor of numerous anthologies of poetry for children.
In 2009, she co-curated an exhibition on the history of children’s poetry at the British Library with then Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen. She is co-author of Children’s Picturebooks: the art of visual storytelling (2019) with Martin Salisbury , is currently working on a third edition of Children Reading Picturebooks with Evelyn Arizpe, and is writing a memoir of childhood in Scotland and India.