Children’s poet Darren Sardelli was educated at Loyola College. Inspired by Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss, Sardelli composes humorous, frequently rhyming, poems for children. Of his work, he has stated, “Whenever people smile, giggle, or laugh after reading or hearing my poetry, I feel as though I am making a positive difference in the world.”
 
He is the author of the children’s poetry collection Galaxy Pizza and Meteor Pie (And Other School Poems That Are Out of This World!) (2009). His children’s poetry has been widely anthologized and appears in What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Kids’ Favorite Funny Summer Vacation Poems (2009), Read Me Out Loud! (2007), and Rolling in the Aisles: a collection of laugh-out-loud poems (2011). Sardelli lives in Long Island, New York.