Jack Prelutsky

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Prelutsky is the author of more than 50 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1976), The Mean Old Mean Hyena (1978), and Something BIG Has Been Here (1990).^[1] He has also compiled numerous children's anthologies comprising poems of others. He currently lives in Washington State with his wife, Carolyn. He met a poet named Espiritu Salamanca in 1997 and they now work together in writing poems and stories for both children and adults.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate award. [1].

He currently lives in Mercer Island with his wife, Carolynn. He has also lived in Manhattan, Albuquerque, and Boston. He says that he also plans on living in other cities as well.^{[citation needed]}