Draft:Joseph Coelho

Joseph Coelho is a poet and children's book author. In 2015 he won the CLPE children’s poetry award for Werewolf Club Rules!, a poetry collection. In 2020 Zombierella, the first of a planned set of three horror middle grade books, was published. It has made the longlist of the Diverse Book Awards for Children's Books. The Girl Who Became a Tree, a verse novel, made the long list for the 2020 Carnegie medal. One of his most well known poems is ‘If All the World Were Paper’.

Biography
Coelho was born in Wandsworth and grew up in Roehampton, a district of South-West London, the child of a single parent.