Contributors

Stephen Addiss is a poet-scholar-artist with a special interest in the interactions of painting, poetry, and calligraphy. He is a Professor at the University of Richmond, and his paintings and calligraphy have been exhibited in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, England, France, Germany, and in many American venues. Addiss has also illustrated A River of Stars, Four Huts, and his co-translation of Tao Te Ching. He has published more than 200 poems, and he is the author of The Art of Zen, Haiga: Haiku-Painting, How to Look at Japanese Art, Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters, 77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy, Japanese Ghosts and Demons, Old Taoist, Zen Art Book, and The Art of Chinese Calligraphy.

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Raquel Aloyz is a research scientist and assistant professor at McGill University. She traveled to Montreal in the 90’s and felt in love with the cultural diversity of the city. Born in Argentina, Raquel works in English, lives in French and dreams in Spanish. A colleague who recently introduced her to haiku and haiga, helped her to write her first poems in English.

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an’ya is the past editor of moonset, haigaonline and WHCbeginners, as well as the first former editor of Ribbons for the Tanka Society of America newsletter and journal; currently she is the regional HSA coordinator for Oregon. Her new website will be up shortly at haikubyanya and her email address is haikubyanya at gmail.com

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Adam Augustin is from Swinoujscie, Poland. He became interested in haiku during his holidays in 2007. From that time came his first attempt at writing these beautiful miniatures from the Far East. He has his own web page Witam w Chwili Haiku where he is collecting his haiku.

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Ed Baker
born Washington, D.C. 1941
here Washington, D.C. 2009
everything in between boring

Ed Baker’s Web Page

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Shanna Baldwin-Moore transplanted to Hawaii 40 years ago living on the edge near the goddess of the volcano making homemade wine, music, verse and painting the graces of nature..listening for the sounds of the forest… Shanna’s blog is at poettree.

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Konrad Banaszkiewicz is studying at University of Zielona Góra in Poland to be an Art Teacher. Professionally, he does advertising design, including folders, larger publications, calendars, company papers, logotypes, illustrations and many other things associated with printing.

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Magdalena Banaszkiewicz lives in Krosno Odrz, a small village in western Poland. She was a teacher, but now she’s taking care of children and running a family emergency house. Her work has been published in online journals.

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Malgorzata Banaszkiewicz lives in Legnica in Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Art in Wroclaw. She studies graphics, typography and engraving, and also ceramics. She is currently working as a graphic designer and photographer, for promotion of Legnica. She loves drawing, painting, making pictures and looking for art and artists.

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Wahyu W. Basjir is father to three children and lives in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. He works for Remdecotama Swaprakarsa, a Jakarta-based consulting company. He wrote, edited and co-authored a number of books on good governance, government budget advocacy, and gender and anticorruption. Wahyu spends most of his time on parenting, cooking, professional work and haiku writing. Usually on Sunday, he goes fishing in the ponds with his sons.

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Ray Belcourt is from Leduc, Canada. He was raised in Northern Ontario. His love of nature, nurtured by the limitless beauty of the boreal forest, contributed to the development of his discerning eye for landscapes and natural form.

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Richard Biscayart feels that his life has been somewhat of a travelogue, living in Spain, USA and Tiawan. In Taiwan, he studied Zen, learning how to silence thoughts and to paint with pen and ink. Later, he developed sport and language programs with Japan, where language learning took place in the context of sport. He currently teaches English as a second language in Delaware.

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Izak Bouwer is a retired math prof, South African born, who lives with his wife Dina in Ottawa, ON. He has published papers in mathematics, a paper on William Blake’s poem The Mental Traveller’(in co-authorship with Paul McNally), and a novelet in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. His most recent publication, in co-authorship with Angela Sumegi, is a book of Japanese-style poetry GO TO THE PINE (BuschekBooks, Ottawa, 2009).

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Marnie Brooks has been a chambermaid, deep sea fisherwoman, woodworker, PR/advertising executive, magazine editor, and book review columnist. She still wears many hats: freelance editor, author/journalist, photographer, haikuist, writing instructor, traveler, community activist, in-line skater, sky-diver (once), and avid night sky watcher. She has had numerous haiga and haiku published, including in frogpond, Modern Haiga, Haiku News, 1000VerseRenga, and anthologies, A Travel-Worn Satchel and WAR.

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Bouwe Brouwer lives in Emmeloord, The Netherlands. Trained as an illustrator/designer, he is now a primary school teacher in Emmeloord. He has been writing haiku since August 2008. His interests are writing haiku, haibun, rengay, travelling and designing/fabricating haiku books by hand in limited edition. His website is aandevloedlijn.

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Tomasz Budziak lives in Warsaw, Poland. He has a Ph.D in business and is working in big corporation. His second life is travelling (including very wild places) and photography. Sometimes known as tbu29 (nickname). He has fallen in love in haiku and haiga and has started to collaborate with poet Robert Kania, his good friend since university.

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Marjorie Buettner lives in Minnesota with her family. She has received numerous awards for her tanka and haiku. She has taught at the Loft in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a frequent book reviewer. Her most recent publication credits are: County Lines, The Tanka Prose Anthology, and Streetlights. Seeing It Now ( published by Red Dragonfly Press ) is her first collection of haiku and tanka.

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Simone K. Busch and Bea Bareis are close friends since schooldays in Berlin, Germany. Coincidentally they moved to the Rhineland later. Now Bea is a freelance musician whereas Simone teaches creative writing. Inspired by their love of nature, Bea improved her photographic skills and Simone went on writing short stories and poetry. They started to collaborate in creating Haiga in 2009. Their work has been published at the World Haiku Association.

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Kirsten Cliff is a New Zealand writer and poet whose work has been published in journals worldwide, and will soon appear in A New Resonance 8. She is currently working on her first collection, Patient Property, which explores her recent journey through leukaemia. Kirsten is editor of the haikai section of the New Zealand Poetry Society magazine, a fine line, and she blogs at Swimming in Lines of Haiku

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Ion Codrescu was born in Cobadin, Romania. His PhD thesis focused on Image and Text in Japanese and Western Haiga Painting. He has won numerous international prizes for his haiku and haiga. His poems, essays and articles have been published in 18 countries and 13 languages. In 1992 he founded the Constantza Haiku Society – Romania, ALBATROSS international haiku journal, the Constantza International Haiku Festival, Constantza National Haiku Conference and the HERMITAGE international haiku journal. He has been invited to deliver papers on haiku, to lead haiku and renku workshops, to read his poems, or to make exhibitions with his ink drawings, paintings and haiga in many countries. His paintings are in private art collections and state museums of several different countries. He recently exhibited as an honorary artist in the Haiga Exhibition in Tubingen, Germany, at the French Cultural Institute. His web page is Ion Codrescu. Some of his haiku can be viewed at Haiku from a year

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Beate Conradwas born and raised in Northern Germany, but since 2000 she has lived and worked in the US. Early on she found herself occupied with music and painting. She is also interested in haiku, haibun, and its analysis. Her works and essays are published in German and international journals and e-zines. Her haiku and haiga won international prizes and numerous honorable mentions. She is editor of the International Haiku-Magazine Chrysanthemum. Her haiku-related projects combing painting, photography, film and music are presented on haikuglobus

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Dave Constable contributed an original photo that inspired the composition of Susan Constable’s haiga. With a love of photography and an eye for an interesting shot, he’s often on the lookout for a haiga-in-the-making. In combination with Susan’s haiku, his photos have been published in numerous haiga journals since the spring of 2007.

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Susan Constable has had her haiga published in numerous issues of Haigaonline, Simply Haiku, Daily Haiga, and Notes from the Gean. Her haiku and tanka have appeared in numerous journals, including The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, Bottle Rockets, Magnapoets, Presence, Ripples, Gusts, and Atlas Poetica. Her work has also been featured in the Red Moon Anthologies, New Resonance 6, and Montage: The Book. In 2010, she received 3rd place in the Tanka Society of America Contest, a Sakura Award in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Contest, and 1st place in the Francine Porad Haiku Contest. Living on the coast, Susan is constantly in the world of nature, which provides numerous photo opportunities and haiku moments.

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Gillena Cox was born in 1950. She lives on the island of Trinidad, one of two islands, which make up The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She had been experimenting with the haiku and tanka genres, when in December, 2002 Debbie Bender emailed her, inviting her to join WHC Haiku Multimedia a yahoo group; she remembers her first attempt was a black and white computer art piece, which she later posted to her website Patchwork
From this group, she became aware of online groups which host haiga, and submitted works to Simply Haiku, Haigaonline, and other ezines; now more recently to Sketchbook. She blogs at Lunchbreak.

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Frank Davila, who recently retired from the Veterans Hospital, lives in Western New York with his wife Mary, who is also retired. Frank loves to write. He has written two mystery novels, poetry and numerous short stories. He has received honorable mention at the Writers Weekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest.

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In 2006, Mary Davila was introduced to haiga, and it has become her main focus. Mary is moderator for the haiga showcase on the AHA Poetry forum. Her haiga have been published in simplyhaiku, haigaonline, sketchbook, Modern Haiga, Lynx and World Haiku Association. She also has been published in the print edition of Modern Haiga 2008 and Moonset. Her haiku have been published in Moonset and The Heron’s Nest. Mary’s website is Petals in the Light .

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Sean Davila lives with his wife and 2 sons in Marian Del Ray, CA. He and his wife run the California Karate Club, and are in the process of starting a pre-school with their local church. He enjoys writing and spending time at the beach with his wife and kids.

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Jim Davis is a graduate of Knox College and now lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he edits the North Chicago Review. Jim’s work has appeared in Seneca Review, Blue Mesa Review, Poetry Quarterly, Whitefish Review, and Contemporary American Voices, in addition to winning the Line Zero Poetry Contest, Eye on Life Poetry Prize, and multiple Editor’s Choice awards. He has published haiku and tanka with Frogpond, Haiku Journal, and Boston Literary Journal, among others. His webpage is
jimdavispoetry.

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Cherie Hunter Day lives in Cupertino, California, USA. Her haiga have appeared in Modern Haiku, Notes from the Gean, Contemporary Haibun Vol. 10 (Red Moon Press, 2009) and several World Haiku Association Haiga Contests. Her award-winning haiku collection, The Horse with One Blue Eye was published by Snapshot Press (UK) in 2006.

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Former Poet Laureate of the U. S. National Library Service, Billie Dee earned her doctorate at the University of California at Irvine. As a poet, she writes in many forms and is widely published, both online and off. Her recent work explores urban and natural world juxtapositions in multi-media composition. Her websites are kiku makura, Requiem for Pluto, One Gold Earring.

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Andrzej Dembonczyk lives in Zbroslawice, Silesia, Poland. He is an employee of local government. He enjoys aquariums. His haiku and haiga have appeared in World Haiku Association, Asahi and Sketchbook.

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Jerry Dreesen has published numerous watercolor paintings on-line as well as pen and ink drawings and sketches. Jerry’s watercolor haiga have been featured in Simply Haiku, Moments, Reeds, Mindfire Revisited and Haigaonline as well as print journals such as the Gator Springs Gazette, Artella and the White Lotus . He is past Haiga editor of Simply Haiku, a journal of Japanese short form poetry. Jerry is a member of the Hamilton County Artist Association. He has exhibited art in local art shows including Penrod, Zionsville’s Brick Walk, and Fisher’s Art in the Park. He has been successful in selling his work throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Europe and Japan. His web site is Dreesen Art Gallery.

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Anton Dwi lives in Semarang city, Indonesia. He spends time with writing, documentry videography, and photography. His degree is in communication science from Diponegoro University. He works with his wife Hayu on printing, graphic designs of school teaching books, and also making uniforms for students, employers and some promotion merchandising. He enjoys writing haiku, haibun and haiga ”to share what he’s seeing”. His haiga, haiku and haibun can be found in Indonesian haiku study group, damselflyhaiku blog, and his own blog.

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Brittni Ellerbeck continues to capture images that have dual expression. She enjoys sharing her perception of reality through photography, revealing her vision of a subject and drawing others into the image. She continues to be invited to photograph bands and events and is pursuing her interest in photography through Visual Arts programs. She likes the way an image can create conversation or literary expression. summer storm is her first haiga collaboration.

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Ignatius Fay is from Sudbury, Canada. He grew up in Levack, Ontario. He has had a love of words, language and learning since those early years.

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Marisa Fazio is an Australian writer living in Melbourne. Her haiga and haiku have appeared in numerous international journals and anthologies. Her most recent projects include a verse novella, A Leopard’s Kiss (2011) and poetry installation, The Nature Lovers (2012).

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Lorin Ford lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Her haiku have been widely published in Australian and overseas journals and anthologies. Her credits include first prize in the 6th and 7th paper wasp Jack Stamm awards, in 2005 and 2006, first prize in the Shiki Salon Annual Haiku Awards 2005 (free format category), Winner – The Haiku Calendar Competition 2010 and first prize – contemporary category, THF’s Haiku Now! 2010 Contest. Her first haiku collection, a wattle seedpod, was awarded first place in the Haiku Society of America Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards, 2009. Some of her haiku may be found at The Haiku Foundation Registry. She is currently the haiku editor for the on-line journal, Notes From the Gean.

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Stanford Forrester is past president of the Haiku Society of America and founding editor of bottle rockets: a collection of short verse. Though his work has been published in many journals and anthologies, he is most proud of his inclusion in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series and American Zen: A Gathering of Poets published by Bottom Dog Press.

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Lary Fraser lives in the British Columbia Interior, where she enjoys the marvelous scenery and varied climate. A former reporter, she now spends time with gardening, writing, photography, and visiting with her grandchildren. Her haiga and haiku can be found in several online publications and in 2006 she compiled a haiku anthology: a procession of ripples Procession of Ripples. Her website is a leaf rustles.

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Terri L. French is a poet/writer, Licensed Massage Therapist and barista living in Huntsville, Alabama. She and her husband have a blended family of four children and three cats. Terri finds her haiku in the crooks, crannies and corners of her everyday world and experiences. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Alabama Writer’s Conclave. Her haiku has appeared in Lilliput Review, Heron’s Nest, Sketchbook , paper wasp and DailyHaiku. Her book, A Ladybug on My Words is available online.

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Judith Gorgone is a visual artist who’s career has crossed over into many areas including graphic, toy, product design and character development, as well as, illustration. Her illustrations and designs appear on a wide range of products from textiles to greeting cards for manufacturers worldwide. Her career has also encompassed the web through her websites Planetpals for EARTH, iKids for PEACE and The T Garden which specializes in haiku and poetry related novelty products. Judith writes professionally and for pleasure. She has been experimenting with Japanese writing forms since she lived in Japan in 1994.

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Gee Greenslade is a Photographic Digital Artist obsessed with fish. She is currently studying her bachelor of visual art with a major in photography as well as working freelance for many bands and models in Adelaide. Her dream is to make picture story books for adults and to have her photos on the cover of magazines. Her website is misgee.net.

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dt.haase is a haiku poet from Chicago, USA. He hosts The Haiku Circle, a site for those interested in sharing their haiku.

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Donald S. Hall PhD, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Don is President of Apps and More Software Designs, but his degree is in theoretical physics. He is a photographer who enjoys exploring the everyday, and he collaborates with his wife Judi on haiga and scifi.

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Judi Suni Hall PhD, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Judi is a theoretical physicist retired due to disabling illness. She divides her time between poetry, art, fabric design, writing scifi, and most recently a designer collection. She is fascinated by mathematical art, but whatever her form of expression the intent is to share the joy of creating beauty. More of Judi’s poetry and art can be seen at Gingezel.

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John Hawkhead has been writing haiku and illustrating for about 15 years. His work has been published in Australia, Ireland, Japan, Romania, the UK, and the USA. His poem Helmand was selected for the Royal British Legion’s official CD recording of war poetry for its Poppy Appeal 2010. John’s book of poetry, illustration and haiku, Witness, is now available from Lulu.

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Gewi Heidi is a German poet who has lived in Aden ( Republic of Yemen ) for a long time. She began writing haiku in March 2007 and never stopped since then. Her poetry and short stories are published in magazines, anthologies and online editions. Her work also appeared in: Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, WHC-German and Sketchbook. In autumn 2010 she started to paint again after nearly 25 years. As a haiku poet, she feels very attracted to haiga art.

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Cara Holman lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their youngest son. She writes mostly haiku and rengay, with the occasional haibun and tanka. Her work has been featured in a number of journals, including Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, LYNX, tinywords, and Moonbathing. Recently she has begun to work on collaborative haiga, and enjoys the challenge of writing haiku to a visual prompt. She blogs at Prose Posies .

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William Douglas Horden is a published author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as a professional photographer and digital artist. He has traveled extensively and currently lives in Southern Oregon in the US and Veracruz, Mexico. His work can be seen at 13th Sky Fine Art Photography and at The Toltec I Ching.

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Marleen Hulst lives in the north of The Netherlands and works in financial accounting. She started writing haiku in 2007, and also enjoys writing haibun, haiga and, more recently, rengay. Her work has appeared in various magazines, including Haibun Today and Blithe Spirit. Other hobbies are travelling and photography. Her blog is at Haiku

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Ken Jones is one of three editors of the print journal, Contemporay Haibun, and the online journal Contemporary Haibun Online. He contributes regularly to UK haiku journals and is represented in British and American anthologies. For his contribution to Pilgrim Foxes: Haiku and Haiku Prose, co-authored with Jim Norton and Sean O’Connor, Jones was awarded the Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai.

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B.T. Joy is a Glaswegian poet who received his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Film Studies in 2009. He has written two volumes of haiku: In The Arms Of The Wind and The Reeds That Tilt The Sky, as well as having poetry published in Obsessed With Pipework, Toasted Cheese, Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, Presence, Canon’s Mouth, Paper Wasp, Sketchbook, Bottle Rockets, Mu and Frogpond. His haiga have been published with the World Haiku Association and Haigaonline. He has been an administrator, a ranch hand, a writing mentor, a farmer and a salesman; living and working in Glasgow, London and the USA.

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Jim Kacian is one of three editors of the print journal, Contemporary Haibun, and the online journal Contemporary Haibun Online. He is a past editor of Frogpond, past president of the Haiku Society of America and was a co-founder of the World Haiku Association. He has had more than 1,000 haiku published in English-language journals and magazines in more than 20 countries and is a winner of the prestigious James Hackett Award (2002). He has published seven books, all of which have won major awards. He owns and operates Red Moon Press, the largest publishing house dedicated to haiku in the world

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Robert Kania lives in Warsaw, Poland. He began writing poetry in 2011. His works (haiku, haiga) have appeared in Asahi Haikuist Network, World Haiku Review and World Haiku Association. In creation of haiga he collaborates with Tomasz Budziak

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Bambang N. Karim was born in Indonesia. Bambang is an Australian Indonesian media artist by trade who has worked primarily with digital media for over 12 years. He seeks to explore the boundaries of the digital medium through his favorite theme of identity, women, and the human struggle. The benchmark of his exploration in combining live performance and the realm of digital technology produces some dance /theatre works as well as video installation piece. When not practicing art, Bambang – also known with his nickname BB – is one part designer, one part developer, honing his skill by running a web design business bNd Solutions. He deals with a number of corporate clients as well as prominent Australian artists.

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Larry Kimmel holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Pittsburgh University, and has worked at everything from steel mills to libraries. He has been publishing poetry for the past thirty years and has six collections of poetry, the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses; alone tonight ; the necessary fly ; Cold Stars White Moon; As Far as Thought Can Reach; a river years from here ; as well as a novel, A Small Silent Ordeal. All are distributed by Winfred Press, 364 Wilson Hill Road, Colrain, Massachusetts 01340, USA.

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Ron Kirkland began writing in the Armed Forces Writers League as a youngster; after many years of inactivity he now writes mostly poetry with some prose about human nature and life. Currently retired, he contributes to a community magazine in the Huntsville Alabama area. His writing can also be found at DeviantArt.com

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Adam Kokot is a pharmacist by education. Since 2007 his photos have been regularly published in major mountain magazines. He has taken part in many collective exhibitions. He has won awards in mountain photo contests and was a finalist of the contest Human Rights on Camera organized by Amnesty International. In the last few years he has regularly visited Southeast Asia to photograph everyday life.

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Krzysztof Kokot is a pharmacist, living in Nowy Targ (POLAND). He is a stamp collector with big passion for travel. In 2007 he published his first poetry volume. Haiku is his newest hobby. His work has been published in The Mainichi Daily News, Asahi Shimbun, Sketchbook and others.

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Lavana Kray has signed her works with this pseudonym since the year 2008 when she was received in the Photo workshop within the French Cultural Institute, Iaşi, Romania. There she developed her skills as a photographer under the guidance of well known photographers. In the past four years her photos were selected for eight group exhibitions and two personal exhibitions. Now she is active in Iaşi Photo Association. Recently, due to a photo haiku contest in Romania, she was attracted by the wonderful world of haiga authors and she thinks that an image is even more powerful when it is associated with a haiku.

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Sydney Lancaster is an Edmonton-based visual artist, writer, and musician. Her mixed media work draws upon her graduate training in Canadian experimental writing, autobiography, and literary theory at the University of Alberta, and is concerned with the subjectivity and contradictions inherent in the construction of personal and social narratives and histories. Lancaster has exhibited in solo an group shows in Edmonton and Calgary, and curated CORTEX: a multidisciplinary event in 2006 and 2007 for the Edmonton Poetry Festival. She is currently completing work on images and text for a chapbook/artist book with poet Catherine Owen, to be published in 2010 by Red Nettle Press. She has been twice nominated for the Telus Award for Innovation in the Arts for her curatorial work, and for the Northlands Award for an Emerging Artist at the PACE Awards in Edmonton. Her website is Sydney Lancaster.

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Gary LeBel has lived variously in Austria, California, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and now lives in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area. He is the founder and co-owner of an optical alignment consulting firm that serves heavy industry throughout the southeast. Self-taught, he has been image-making in words and pictures for many years. He wrote haibun as he traveled. He credits Bashō’s Narrow Road for the impulse to begin writing in that genre. Modern English Tanka Press published Abacus, his first collection of short poems, haibun and prose poems as an e-book in 2008. His haibun have appeared in Contemporary Haibun, Haibun Today, Kō, Lynx and Modern Haiku. His haiga have been shown in Haiga Online, Modern Haiga, Modern Haiku and Reeds Contemporary Haiga. He is currently working on a second volume of haibun, short poems and prose with poetry including verses in short but alternate forms.

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Hugh Lemma lived most of his life in Southern New Jersey before relocating to Arizona in 2005. His writing is informed by experiences in both places, as well as abiding interests in philosophy, religion, and pop culture. He is married with four kids and three grandkids, and works in transport refrigeration.

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Artur Lewandowski lives in Sieradz, Poland. His poems have been published on the internet at abc haiku and
antologia haiku , Asahi Haikuist Network, Tinywords, Lynx, Mainichi Daily News, The Shamrock, The Heron’s Nest, The Sketchbook and The Matsuo Basho 2009 Haiku Contest.

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Ramona Linke was born in 1960 and lives with her family in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). She has written lyrics for many years and haiku since 2003. Also she writes tan-renga, renku and rengay, takes photos and paintings (mainly sumi-e and aquarelle). Her haiku and haiga have been published in anthologies and in such magazines, for example: Chrysanthemum, Der Sperling, Mainichi Daily News, Asahi-Shimbun, WHC-German, Lynx, Notes from the Gean, Sketchbook, WHA-Haiga-Contest and elsewhere. She is a member of the German Haiku Society, the WHC-German and the World Haiku Association.

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Erika Luckert is an Edmonton writer, photographer, and student of the arts. As a writer, she has explored a range of literary disciplines including journalism, playwriting, fiction, nonfiction, and, of course, poetry. She volunteers as an Artist on the Wards at the University of Alberta Hospital, and is currently completing a degree in English and Creative Writing. Her web page is Erika Luckert.

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Bob Lucky lives with his family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he teaches history. His work, mostly poetry and nonfiction, has appeared in various international journals. In his spare time he makes planned noise of a sort on ukuleles.

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Horst Ludwig, retired from teaching as an Associate Professor of German at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, USA. He is originally from Germany, is active in Pegnesischer Blumenorden von 1644 (Pegnesian Flower Order of 1644) in Nuremberg, Haiku Society of America, and other literary and linguistic associations. In 1981 he published Wind im Bambusspiel: Sechsunddreißig Haiku (Wind in bamboo chimes: 36 haiku), which was reissued 1991 with an English translation by Nancy Hanson Nash. In 1993 he won the Robert L. Kahn Prize for the best German poetry text by a resident of North America. His haiku received the Certificate of Excellence at the 2001 Suruga Baika Literature Festival, were recognized as among the best texts in the 2001 issues of kô, were awarded 3rd prizes in the 7th Kusamakura Haiku Competition of Kumamoto City, Japan, in 2002, the Mainichi International Contest 2011, and the Bashô-Festival 2012, and his tanka was given the Supplementary Award in the Hoshi to Mori Tanka Competition in 2002.

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Colin Macdonald is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He recently retired from a career in the mining industry, providing much welcome time to pursue travel, arts and culture, outdoor activities, and photography, usually not simultaneously.

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Mamta Madhavan lives in India and has been writing poetry since the age of 13. Her poems have been published in print and online journals. Photography is her passion and she is a self taught photographer. She is a curator on staff at
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Annette Makino is a poet and artist who writes haiku and senryu, illustrating her poems with sumi ink paintings. Her pieces, each comprising just a few syllables and brushstrokes, combine quiet reflection and a gentle humor. Makino’s paintings, prints, cards and handmade books are available online at Makino Studios. Makino was raised by a Japanese father and Swiss mother, and has lived in both Japan and Europe. She is influenced by the simple yet profound aesthetic of Zen Buddhism and the playful aspect of Swiss art and design. She is also inspired by the untamed beauty of her Pacific Northwest home in Arcata, California, where she lives with her husband, two children, one dog and 20,000 honeybees.

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Jacek Margolak was born in Rzeszów, in 1964, and now lives in Kielce (Poland) with his wife and two sons. He works as a print technologist. He has been interested in haiku and haiga since 2000 and now is a member of two haiku writing groups — “Haiku po polsku” and “Orient.” Some of his haiku appeared in various online magazines, and haiga at World Haiku Association, Lishanu, Haiga Online, Modern Haiga, Sketchbook and Simply Haiku.

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Francis Masat’s haijin work has appeared in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, and Russia, as well as in the USA. His poetry appears in many anthologies and his most recent books are Lilacs After Winter (haibun), MET Press, and A Taste of Key West, Pudding House Press. He lives with his wife in tropical Key West, FL, USA, and is co-editor of Key-ku of Key West.

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Michael Windsor McClintock received his education at Occidental College and the University of Southern California, where he specialized in Asian Studies, English and American Literature, and Information Sciences. He has edited numerous poetry journals. In 2001 McClintock retired as Principal Librarian and Administrator for the County of Los Angeles Public Library. He currently writes the Tanka Cafe column for the Tanka Society of America Newsletter. His collections of haiku, senryu, tanka, and other poetry include Light Run (Shiloh, 1971), Man With No Face(Shelters Press, 1974), and Maya: Selected Poems (Seer Ox, 1976).

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Beth McFarland comes originally from Ireland, but has been living in Germany for longer that she cares to remember. She has worked as a microbiologist, but now teaches English, and feels at home in both science and the arts. A relatively recent convert to haiku and haiga, she is interested to find out where these activities will take her. Beth and her family live near the Black Forest, in a house with a mind of its own.

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Susha Menon: With infinite ways to express one self, Susha finds exploration into the world of creativity quite fascinating. She is a self-taught artist and her passion for photography started with the view of collecting material for her artworks but has turned out to be a hobby that has given her much joy.

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Małgorzata Miksiewicz is from Wrocław, Poland. She is a graduate of Polish philology at the University of Wroclaw. She defended a Master’s Thesis on Polish contemporary haiku. She is now studying Indian philology at the University of Wroclaw. She creates haiku and haiga (in Polish and English), and publishes her work on her blog miniaturium .

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Allison Millcock lives on Christmas Island and spends her time doing photography, art and poetry. She is co-moderator for the haiga forum on Jane Reichhold’s online AHApoetry forum, and editor for the haiga section of LYNX ezine. She has published a book titled pausing for a moment… haiga and tanga. Allison has also had work published on several ezines, and in print magazines, newspapers, anthologies and journals around the world.

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Ruth Mittelholtz is inspired by the forests, farmlands, barrens and fens of Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, especially the limestone escarpment lands of the Bruce Peninsula. Her haiga, haiku and haibun have been published at Modern Haiga, Daily Haiga, World Haiku Review and Contemporary Haibun Online. As an artist she works with mixed-media drawing, photo-based and handbound book formats.

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Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu is a Romanian poet who has lived in Bucharest since she was born. She began writing poems in 2007 and haiku in March 2010. Her poems and haiku were published in Romanian magazines, haiku anthology and on line editions. Her work also appeared in Ploc!, Asahi Shimbun and Sketchbook.

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Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck has contributed to several cycles of DailyHaiku, and her haiku have appeared in Acorn Press, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Presence, Simply Haiku, Snap Shot Press, Red Moon Anthology and in her poetry broadsheet Bliss. Her poetry has been widely published, recently in Vallum. One of her haiku was featured in Learning to Perform: An Introduction, a new textbook. She was inspired by DailyHaiga and went on a hiatus creating haiga – she is thrilled to share some of her haiga on this marvelous site!

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Carolyn Morgan Artist/poet: Carolyn attended the Queensland College of Art in the mid-sixties where she discovered a love for color, texture and the abstract form. She has enjoyed a rewarding career as an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, and writer, establishing her own design firm in 1989. Now retired, Carolyn concentrates on writing poetry and painting expressionist abstracts, landscapes and figurative works in oils, watercolor, and mixed media.

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Ron Moss lives in Tasmania, and is an internationally published poet and artist. He is an editor, competition judge and a lover of the haiku arts. Ron is currently a co-editor of Modern Haiga and his work is widely published. To see Ron’s recent work go to redbubble. His work is featured in a recent exhibition at 3lights Gallery. Archival quality prints of work published by DailyHaiga can be obtained from Ron Moss by contacting him at ron.moss(at)education.tas.gov.au.

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Robert Moyer lives in Winston-Salem, NC, where he was local host for Haiku North America 2007. He has had work published in numerous journals, such as frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets and Sketchbook. He is a frequent contributor to Haiku News. He has been included in a number of anthologies, most recently the ten-year Acorn anthology. An article about his teaching haiku to elementary school children, Looking for the Moment: Haiku, Theater and Play,” was featured in the March 2009 Haiku Society of America Newsletter. The article arose from a project conducted at the Arts-Based Elementary School. Bob was featured in cycle 7 of Dailyhaiku starting in May 2010. Bob recently won the Poetry Slam conducted by the Poetry Council of NC for the second year in a row and also received honorable mention in the free verse category of the Poetry Council of NC annual contest. He met Guntram Porps playing pétanque in Germany.

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Sakuo Nakamura is a man of frontier spirit. He graduated from university and worked at aluminum manufacturing company. In 1983 he changed his focus to work with high purity chemicals. Now, he is eagerly studying haiku ”to share and work together through the Internet”. Sakuo is a talented artist who has created evocative haiga incorporating the haiku of Kobayashi Issa (early 1800’s) and Masajo Suzuki (mid 1900’s). His English translations for the Issa haiku are from Dr. David Lanoue. For Dr. Lanoue’s website on Issa see Haiku of Kobayashi Issa. Read about Issa’s life at Kobayashi Issa. Masajo’s haiku are translated by Lee Gurga and Emiko Miyashita. Masajo’s life story can be seen at Masajo Suzuki and Haiku of the Life and Love of Masajo Suzuki. For DailyHaiga, Sakuo has created paired haiga for each season, from the differing perspectives of Issa and Masajo. Sakuo posts his haiga on Everyday Issa.

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Robert Bogusław Nowak lives and works in Wałbrzych, in south-west Poland. His love affair with haiku and related forms began in 2008 – it has been his passion since then. His poems were published in Mainichi Daily News and Asahi Haikuist Network. His haiga have appeared in World Haiku Association pages. He also publishes his poems in the Polish haiku forum

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Rita Odeh is from Nazareth. She comes from a christian Palestinian family. She has B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Haifa University. She has published 6 books of poetry,one book of short stories, three electronic novels, one e-book of Haiku. Her poetry has been published in several international publications: simply haiku, DailyHaiku, tiny words, Other Voices, Haaretz, mainichi, helicon, Haiku News, The Haiku Foundation and many others.

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Mariusz Ogryzko lives in Bialystok, Poland with his wife and son. He enjoys writing haiku and haiku related forms. He is a member of the Polish Haiku Forum Haiku po polsku. His poems were published in Modern Haiku, Mainichi Daily News, Asahi Haikuist Network, Frogpond, Sketchbook and his haiga at World Haiku Association.

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Regina “Renia” Olszowka lives in Tarnowski Gory, Silesia, Poland.
She is an employee of local government. She enjoys painting. Her pencil drawings and watercolors, appeared in Sketchbook.

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Nicole Pakan is associate art editor for DailyHaiga, and the co-editor of DailyHaiku. Her recent publication credits include: filling Station, The Prairie Journal, Other Voices, Notebook Magazine, Misunderstandings Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, and Blue Skies Poetry. She was short-listed for the CV2 2-day poem contest for 2008 and was the winner of the 2009 Edmonton CBC Poetry Faceoff. More on Nicole’s work can be found online at www.nicolepakan.ca.

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Linda Papanicolaou lives in the Bay Area of California. A middle school art teacher and art historian, she became interested in haiku and haiga when she taught an art lesson that combined leaf printing and haiku; since then, her favorite forms of creative expression are haiku, haiga, any art that offers the possibility of combining text with images. She is the editor of Haigaonline, assistant director of WHChaikumultimedia and a resident artist at Moonset. Her art and poetry have appeared in Amaze, Autumn Leaves, Contemporary Haibun Online, Fire Pearls, Frog Pond, Geppo, Heron’s Nest, Haigaonline, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lynx, Mariposa, Moonset, Nisqually Delta Review, Ribbons, Santa Fe Broadside, Simply Haiku, Soundings, Temps Libres, WHC World Kigo Project and World Haiku Review.

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perpoto (Umesh Desai) is currently living in Hong Kong but originates from India, the birthplace of Buddha. By profession he is an engineer and was in business representing multinational companies AVON/SPIEGEL to outsource from South Asian countries. He loved photography/poetry/philosophy (3P) when he was in business but has now decided to give time to creativity. He does not use a cell phone or watch. He prefers a minimalist approach in photography and poetry.

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Brett Peruzzi of Framingham, Massachusetts, has been writing and publishing haiku, haibun, and renku for 25 years in many leading journals and anthologies. His renku writing and performance collaborations with two other well-known poets are done under the moniker of the Metro West Renku Association

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Linda Pilarski is the editor of DailyHaiga. She has lived and worked in the USA, Australia and Canada. With her notebook and camera, she has hiked in wild and beautiful places on all seven continents. Her haiku and haiga have appeared in DailyHaiku, Simply Haiku, Acorn, Wisteria, White Lotus Shadow Poetry, Chrysanthemum, Modern Haiga, Haigaonline, Moonset, the World Haiku Association Haiga Contest, World Haiku Review 2009, Prune Juice, Canadian Zen Haiku, Haiku Dreaming Australia, paper wasp and Frogpond.

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Patrick M. Pilarski is the associate poetry editor for DailyHaiga, and co-editor of DailyHaiku. Patrick’s work recently appeared in The Antigonish Review, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, contemporary haibun,, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009) and many others. More on Patrick’s work can be found at www.pilarski.ca. He is the author of one chapbook: Five Weeks (2007). His first full collection of haiku, haibun, and tanka, Huge Blue, is a poetic tour guide to Canada’s stunning western landscape, published by Leaf Press, Canada, 2009. Using precise and direct language, the poems in Huge Blue form junction points between humanity and wilderness under a vaulting expanse of sky.

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Razvan Pintea lives in Bucharest and is a consultant in Information Technology. His haiku have appeared in Acorn, Chrysanthemum, Haiku Presence, Magnapoets, Word Salad Poetry Magazine and The Haiku Foundation. His haiga have been published in Lynx; essays in Acum and other publications.
His personal website is Razvan Pintea.

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Guntram Porps works on many media, and the pictures just don’t do some of the work justice—vellum, parchment, graph paper, old folders, etc. Some are prints off of blocks, some are scrapes, etc. He says “I am an unwritten page. I am unpublished and a none member in any literary or arts organization. I was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada. After studying fine arts in Canada and Europe I ended up as a paper conservator/ restaurateur in a museum in Germany. Playing boule with Bob Moyer I was introduced to haiku and thought, doing haiga could be fun.” His photo of me was taken in Winnipeg at the Forks with a frog that my grandson had just found last summer, it is my humble homage to Basho`s pond.

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Sandi Pray is a retired high school media specialist/librarian living closely with nature in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains and forest marshes of North Florida. Living a vegan lifestyle, she is an avid hiker and lover of all critters, especially felines. Always deeply appreciative of haiku and haiga she just recently began to participate with the encouragement of new friends. Her haiga can be seen at ravencliffs and haiku on Twitter@bigmax722

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Dorota Pyra lives and works in Gdansk, Poland. Her haiku and haiga have appeared, among others, in Haigaonline, Sketchbook, and WHA’s haiga monthly contest as well as in paper publications. Her blog is rozsypany czas scattered time

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Carol Raisfeld lives in Atlantic Beach, New York. Photography and poetry are an integral part of her life, as well as boxing and yoga. As an inventor and toy designer, she holds US and foreign design patents. She is an Associate Editor and Haiga Editor of Simply Haiku, Director of WHChaikumultimedia, and a member of the editorial board of Modern Haiga. Her poetry, art and photography have appeared worldwide in print, online journals and anthologies. Her work may be seen at HaikuBuds.

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Ray Rasmussen’s haiku, haiga, haibun and articles have been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun, Heron’s Nest, Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Haibun Today, Haigaonline, Contemporary Haibun Online, Roadrunner, Tinywords, Haiku Harvest, The World Haiku Review, Lynx and Ink Sweat & Tears. Ray designed the Contemporary Haibun Online web site and serves as technical editor. His web page designs are currently used by Simply Haiku and Roadrunner haiku journals. He has served as haiga editor for Simply Haiku and haibun editor for the World Haiku Review. Ray dreamed that in a previous life he was a university professor. His web site is Haiku, Haibun, Haiga by Ray Rasmussen

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Sarah Rehfeldt lives in western Washington with her family. She is a writer, artist, and photographer. Her work has been published most recently in EarthSpeak Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Numinous Magazine and Untitled Country Review. Her first book of poetry is Somewhere South of Pegasus, a collection of image poems. It is available through her web page at photography

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Moira Richards is an accountant, author, editor, publisher. Co-owner, with Norman Darlington, of Darlington Richards Publishers. Co-editor with Norman Darlington of The Plenitude of Emptiness by Hortensia Anderson, 2010, Darlington Richards. Co-convenor, with Louisa Howerow and Shayla Mollohan, of the 2008 online Festival of Women’s Poetry.

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Emily Romano was born 1924 and has been married since 1942. She has four daughters. Emily is the originator of eight new poetry forms: Brevette; Essence; Memento; Mini-monoverse; Musette; Octelle; Pictorial. and Tableau. Rules and examples for some of these can be viewed at Shadow Poetry Invented Styles. Emily’s poetry awards include selection for the National League of American Pen Women (5); 2005 Gerald Brady Award for Senryu (2); 2005 Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Award; The Heron’s Nest Grand Prize Award; Haiku Headlines Awards; Tanka Society of America Award; Modern Haiku (8 including the Clement Hoyt Memorial Award); The Saigyo Award for Tanka 2008; and many others. She has published over 5000 haiku. Emily’s latest book of haiga, HEAVENLY HAIGA Lifted From Space, is available from Shadow Poetry @ Bookstore

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Violette Rose-Jones lives in Coffs Harbour, Australia. Her haiku have been published in various journals and last year were featured in The Third Australian Haiku Anthology. Her haiga also appear in the 2009 edition of Modern Haiga. She was also nominated for a Ditmar Award for Science Fiction Writer for her flash fiction piece, A Light Snack After Dinner.

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Ann Roske is from Jefferson, Oregon. By day, she is a business analyst. By night a poet who writes in pencil.

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Bruce Ross is one of three editors of the print journal, Contemporay Haibun, and the online journal Contemporary Haibun Online. He is a past president of the Haiku Society of America. His haiku, haibun, collaborative renga, haiga and articles have appeared in haiku journals worldwide. He authored Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun (1998) and How to Haiku: A Student’s Guide to Haiku and Related Forms (2001). He has published three collections of original haiku: thousands of wet stones (1988), among floating duckweed (1994) and Silence: Collected Haiku (1997). His latest publication is summer drizzles (2006), a collection of haiku and haibun

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Alexis Rotella is an award winning poet and editor. She is currently editor of Prune Juice, a Journal of Senryu and Kyoka Prune Juice. Check out her blog at Alexis Rotella and poetry presentations on You Tube.

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Lidia Rozmus was born in Poland and studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków where she received her Master Degree in History of Art. In 1980 she made her home in the United States. She works as a graphic designer, paints sumi-e and oils and writes haiku. She has written and designed several portfolios/books of haiku, haibun, and haiga: A Dandelion’s Flight – Haiku and Sumi-e (Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award for design); (Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award 2004 for haibun); Hailstones, Haiku by Taneda Santoka; The Moss at Tokeiji. Her paintings have been exhibited and her haiku published in the U.S., Japan, Poland and Australia. She is art editor of the journal Modern Haiku. Her web page is Lidia Rozmus

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Claudette Russell is a retired high school English teacher who lives with her husband in Goodwin State Forest in Hampton, Connecticut. Over the years her humorous essays have been published on the op-ed page in various newspapers. For two and a half years she has been writing and publishing haiku in various print and online journals. She and her husband work together to create haiga.

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Frank Russell is a former high school science teacher and coach. Although photography was always a hobby, a busy career and family did not give him the chance to pursue it full time. Retirement has provided that opportunity. His work has been published in the Hartford Courant’s online travel section, in the Willimantic Chronicle, and by Northeast Publications for a marketing booklet to promote New England golf. His work has been exhibited at the Willimantic Country Club and at various exhibits presented by the Northeastern Connecticut Art Guild to which he and his wife belong.

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Isira Sananda is an author, artist and musician who loves to celebrate in the wonder and mystery of life. Working as a peace ambassador keeps her inspired and intrigued by people and the world we live in. Her main goal is to help people feel better about themselves and to make a difference in the world.

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Manoj Saranathan is a student of Zen and photography and is deeply inspired by the life and work of Daido Loori Roshi. He started
formally exploring haiku in late 2007 and haiga in 2008. He lives in
San Francisco, CA and is a medical physicist by training.

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Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Millbrook, NY, USA. Her haiku, tanka, senryu, haiga and haibun have been published in a number of journals, both in print and on-line, in the US and abroad. Her collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, was awarded third place in the Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards for 2009 and is available at Modern English Tanka Press. Her blog is Whitepetals. Adelaide also writes short fiction and has been published in several journals

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Kuniharu Shimizu was born in Tenri, Nara, Japan, in 1949. He completed a BFA in painting from Univ. of Hawaii. Since 2000, he has collaborated with more than 250 haijin throughout the world to produce more than 1000 haiga. He is presently an advisor to World Haiku Association, and the judge of its monthly haiga contest. This photo of Kuni with Basho was taken some time ago when Kuni visited Hiraizumi, where Basho wrote haiku about the Golden Hall and warriors/summer grass. Kuni’s Blog website

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Brendan Slater lives in England.

Bio: Man, husband, father, scribbler.

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George Swede was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1940, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1947. He graduated with a psychology degree from the University of British Columbia in 1964, and an MSc from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1967, he joined the psychology department at Ryerson University, becoming department chair from 1998 to 2003. George published several books and a number of articles on creativity and the psychology of art. in 1977 he cofounded Haiku Canada with Eric Amann and Betty Drevniok. His awards and honors are legion, and include three Museum of Haiku Literature Awards, first prize in the 1990 Mainichi Daily News Haiku in English Contest, and grants from the Japan Foundation and Japan Air Lines. George has also distinguished himself with experimental poetry, tanka, and longer free-verse poetry. In 2008, he became the first Canadian editor of Frogpond, The Journal of the Haiku Society of America .

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Lech Szeglowski studied literature and speech therapy. He is a habitual reader of haiku and its theory, as well as senryu and, of course, kyoka and satire. Much of his desire for reading and writing are very deep subaquatic and unobserved.

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Irena Szewczyk lives in Warsaw Poland. She is interested in literature and photography. Irena practices yoga. She started to write haiku and make photo haiga in March 2011. She publishes her works in English, Polish and Hungarian on her blog iris haiku . Her haiku and haiga have been published in The Asahi Shimbun, Daily Haiga, Haigaonline, Haiku Novine, Notes from the Gean, Sketchbook and WHA Haiga Contest. She won Honorable Mention in the HIA Haiku Contest.

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Tiana Tallant is a senior at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.

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Barbara Taylor lives in the Rainbow Region, Northern NSW, Australia.. “Each day demands that I write, and that my fingers touch and feel the earth.” Barbara’s haiku and Japanese short form poems appear in international journals and anthologies on line and in print, including Ginyu, The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, Kokako, Simply Haiku, HaigaOnline, and others. Diverse poems with audio are at batsworld.

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Rod Tinniswood started a new life in Perth, Western Australia in January 1996, leaving behind an illustrious career as an advertising art director in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Today he works for a business weekly newspaper as a graphic designer. Tertiary learning was in art and design and now creative writing is a hobby. He has had poems and short stories published.

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Maria Kowal-Tomczak lives in Opole, Poland. She works as a product manager. She enjoys writing haiku, poems and short stories. As a mother she also writes fairy tales for her son. She is interested in Japanese culture and poetry especially haiku and related forms. Her haiku and haiga have been published in online journals. Her work can be found on the blog poesi-haiku.

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Kay Tracy lives Portland Oregon, in the vibrant Pacific Northwest. She is the Assistant Publisher of Four and Twenty, and has poetry published in, and Sketchbook. Her blog is Immersed in Word.

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Charles Trumbull is currently the editor of Modern Haiku and proprietor of Deep North Press, a publisher of haiku books, two of which won the HSA Merit Book Award in 2002. He has been writing haiku since 1991. He was editor (1996-2002) of the Haiku Society of America Newsletter, president of the HSA in 2004 and 2005, and an organizer of the Haiku North America 1999 conference. He also heads up the Haiku Data Base Project. A webpage featuring his haiku is Trumbull Poetry & Bio

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Michael J Wetteland is an amateur photographer who lives with his wife in Edina, Minnesota. More of his work can be viewed online at natural lightscapes.

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Urszula Wielanowska lives and works in Kielce (Poland). In 2006 she first encountered haiku. Since that time, she has been a faithful reader. Currently, the creation of haiga and haiku is her new passion. Her work has been published in online journals.

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Liam Wilkinson is a poet, editor and musician from Yorkshire, England. His poetry, including haiku and tanka, has appeared widely in print and on the Internet. He is the curator of the 3lights Gallery
www.threelightsgallery.com, and chief editor of Modern Haiga
www.modernhaiga.com. He lives with his wife in Yorkshire, England where he also performs as a folk musician.

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Jeffrey Woodward is currently editor of Haibun Today. His poems and articles have been published in North America, Europe and Asia in various periodicals. His collection of poems, In Passing, was published in 2007 and he edited The Tanka Prose Anthology in 2008.

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Larisa Worthington is a published haiku and tanka poet, as well as a nature photographer. She lives in Oregon with her husband Jeff and their two dogs, Gus and Louie. She is the founder of FAN (Feline Assistance Network) which is a non-profit organization for feral cats.

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Anthea Wright recently graduated her Bachelor of Visual Art, specializing in New Media. She has a passion for fantasy art and aspires to become a concept artist for film and games. In the meantime she illustrates many fantasy themes such as fairies and angles, travels to sci-fi/comic conventions to sell her work and ponders over the making of animations. She also works part-time as a digital touch-up artist in a photography studio.

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Rafal Zabratynski lives in a Polish town called Rzeszow, where he teaches English in a middle school. In his free time, he writes haiku and other short Japanese poetic forms. His poems appear in English and Polish haiku journals once in a while. Since 2005, he has been running his personal website — Wordographs . Creating haiku and mountain trekking are his favourite ways of admiring the world.

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