Contributors
Tanya Abadzhieva (Bulgaria) | |
Tanya Abadzhieva is a Bulgarian journalist and photographer. Her photographs are published in GIssen Gallery. |
Barry Allen (Canada) | |
Barry Allen acquired his first camera as a university student and began a journey exploring photography. As an educator the camera became a way for his students to tell stories and share learning. As a Learning Specialis, he encouraged teachers to evaluate and share learning with storytelling, photographs and photo essays. Now he teaches photography, co-creates and teaches Haiga with Nika and makes intimate images to inspire people to explore and “see” the world around them. |
Elisa Allo (Switzerland) | |
Elisa Allo lives in Switzerland. Since 2006, she manages the multiblog Ama no Gawa (Tanzaku). In 2007 she published a collection of her haiku, tanka and senry?, Sushi diVersi. She is among the authors of the four anthologies of haiku of the series Hanami (Edizioni della Sera, Rome). Some haiku and senry? were recently published on international journals and blogs, including The Mainichi, The Asahi Haikuist Network, Otata, Failed Haiku, Haikuniverse, The Haiku Foundation, Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog, Cha No Keburi and others. |
Asni Amin (Singapore) | |
Asni Amin lives in Singapore. She works as a librarian full time and writes haiku for the love of it, after getting hooked on it in early 2012. Some of her haiku have been published in Simply Haiku, appeared in several ebooks such as With Cherries On Top, Fool’s Paradise, The Best of 5 Line Poems 2012, online blogs such as NeverEnding Story, etc. She also keeps a haiku blog A Walk In Haiku. Asni won first place in the recent Second Edition Haiku Contest organised by the Romanian Kukai Group, Sharpening The Green Pencil in April 2013. |
an'ya (USA) | |
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 |
Ramesh Anand (India) | |
Ramesh Anand is from India. He has authored Newborn Smiles, a book of haiku poetry published by Cyberwit.Net Press. His haiku have appeared in many publications, across 14 countries, including Bottle Rockets Press, ACORN, Magnapoets, The Heron’s Nest, SouthbySoutheast and Frogpond. His haiku has been translated in German, Serbian, Japanese, Croatian, Romanian, Telugu and Tamil. His tanka have been published in Tinywords, Kernels Online and Bamboo Hut. His poetry is also forthcoming in many print journals. He blogs at Ramesh-Inflame. |
Hifsa Ashraf (Pakistan) | |
Hifsa Ashraf lives in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She is an award-winning poet, author, editor, and social activist. Please visit her blog to view her published work at Hifsa Ashraf or follow her on twitter at @hifsays. |
Adam Augustin (Poland) | |
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. |
Pamela A. Babusci (USA) | |
Pamela A. Babusci, is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka & haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, First Place Mount Fuji Tanka Contest (Japan), First Place Mainichi Haiku Award including Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol.1, The Delicate Dance of Wings, Chasing the Sun: selected haiku from HNA 2007 and Moonbathing: a journal of women’ s tanka. She was also the logo artist for Haiku North America in NYC in 2003 and Haiku North America in Winston-Salem, NC in 2007. Her haiga (haiku/tanka with painting) have been featured on Haiga-on-line, The Haiku Foundation, Simply Haiku, Frameless Sky numerous haiku & tanka journals. She has collaborated with several figurative and abstract painters in Rochester, NY at art galleries/shows. Pamela is the founder and editor of: Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, the first all-women international tanka journal. |
Ed Baker (USA) | |
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Shanna Baldwin-Moore (USA) | |
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… Shannas blog is at poettree. |
Leslie Bamford (Canada) | |
Leslie Bamford is a published Canadian writer of short stories, poems and plays. She recently retired and began to write tanka in her head while walking her energetic dog several hours a day, a camera always around her neck. She has fallen in love with this genre. Her work can be viewed at Leslie Bamford. |
Paul Bernhard (Switzerland) | |
Paul Bernhard lives in Switzerland. He has been photographing since his youth, inspired by his father. He is a member (and was board member) of the Fotoklub Solothurn since 1967, honorary member since 2012 and he was former member of PHOTO SUISSE , FIAP and PSA. Various exhibitions and awards such as:Photomuesingen. 1978 AFIAP (Artist-FIAP). 1981 EFIAP (Excellenz-FIAP), 1982 PSA****CS, 2005 PhotoSuisse: monochrome annual competition –1st place (Swiss champion), colour competition – 2nd place. Further awards were won at national and international competitions. He writes haiku and creates haiga. |
Andrei Besleaga (Romania) | |
Andrei N. Besleaga is from Bucharest, Romania. He is an |
Oana Boazu (Romania) | |
Oana Aurora Boazu lives in Galati city, Romania. She is a business analyst in a dutch engineering company. She started writing haiku as a challenge, in 1999, and since then it has became a way of living. Loving also photography, writing haiga was the next natural step to take. Hd work has been published in many haiku journals, such as Frogpond, Mainichi Daily News, Herons Nest, Sketchbook and Capoliveri International haiku contest anthologies. She received The 14th Mainichi Haiku Contest, Japan, Honorable Mention in the international section, 2010, 8th International Haiku Contest – Ludbreg, Croatia, Honorable mention, Jan. 200, and International Haiku Contest “One Thousand Cranes” – Iasi, Romania, Third Prize, Nov. 2008. She blogs at haikublog. |
Claudia Brefeld (Germany) | |
Claudia Brefeld lives in Bochum (Germany). She was board member, second chairwoman of the German Haiku Society (DHG) and also chief-editor of the haiku magazine SOMMERGRAS. Publications (haiku, haiga, renku etc.) – on various national and international websites, in anthologies, as well as in print and online magazines such as: Albatross, a tempo, Chrysanthemum, Haiku novine, LYNX, Lotosblüte, Mainichi Daily News, New Zealand Poetry Society – Haiku Favourites, The Asahi Shimbun, The Heron’s Nest, Simply Haiku, WHA-Haiga Contest, World Haiku Review etc. Her haiku won international prizes and honorable mentions. She is editor of the haiga website Haiga im Focus. Her website is artgerecht und ungebunden. |
Bouwe Brouwer (The Netherlands) | |
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. |
Ingrid Bruck (USA) | |
Ingrid Bruck lives in Pennsylvania Amish country, USA, a landscape that inhabits her poetry. A retired library director, she writes short forms and poetry. She writes a monthly column, “Pearl Diving,” featuring online writer resources for Between These Shores Books and serves on the BTSA editorial team. Some current work appears in Failed Haiku, Heron’s Nest, Sanctuary Magazine and Verse-Virtual. Her Poetry website is Ingrid Bruck |
Dan Campbell (USA) | |
Dan Campbell is a writer and poet in the Washington DC area. He tries to write poetry that makes readers look at ordinary events in special ways. |
Frank Carey (USA) | |
Frank C. Carey is a Research Engineer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He started writing haiku very late in life and now finds that he is consumed by the art. Find him online at Frank Carey. |
Christina Chin (Malaysia) | |
Christina Chin is from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia which lies along the equator. Painting and haiku are Her pasttimes. |
Kirsten Cliff (New Zealand) | |
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 |
Ion Codrescu (Romania) | |
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 |
Beate Conrad (USA) | |
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 |
Sophia Conway (Canada) | |
Sophia Conway is from Canada. She is an Irish writer and poet residing on Vancouver Island, Canada. Her poetry has been published in the Asahi Haikuist Network, Ribbons, Eucalypt, and Autumn Moon Haiku Journal. You can visit her at Sophia Conway |
Elizabeth Crocket (Canada) | |
Elizabeth Crocket is a Canadian author and poet. She has two Japanese short form poetry books published with Cyberwit.net. Her picture book, Happy Haiku, was published in Autumn 2019. Her chapbook Not Like Fred and Ginger is also published by Red Moon Press and was shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award. Her photo-haiga won the 2nd annual Jane Reichhold Memorial. A gallery of her collage haiga will be included in the Haiku Foundation Haiga Galleries in July, 2021. She also writes women’s fiction. You can find more of her writing at Elizabeth Crocket. |
Frank Davila (USA) | |
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. |
Mary Davila (USA) | |
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 Herons Nest. Mary’s website is Petals in the Light . |
Sean Davila (USA) | |
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. |
Jim Davis (USA) | |
Jim Davis is a graduate of Knox College and now lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he edits the North Chicago Review. Jims 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 |
Billie Dee (USA) | |
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. |
Anton Dwi (Indonesia) | |
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. |
Eleanor Elkin (USA) | |
Eleanor Elkin lives in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a social worker, a fiber artist and a haiku writer. |
Robert Erlandson (USA) | |
Robert Erlandson is professor emeritus of Engineering who has has maintained a journal of poetry and painted for over fifty years. Currently, he draws, paints, creates digital images and writes for the joy of expression. His latest book, AWE, a collection of images and poetry express his awe of the natural world’s expression of mathematics, and Together: haiga reflections of humanity, are available from Amazon books. For additional information see circle publications, Circle Publications |
Fiona Evans (Australia) | |
Fiona H Evans is a mathematician and writer. She lives in Perth, Western Australia, on Noongar Boodja. She loves nature and highly compressed writing with haiku previously published in Tiny Words and Echidna Tracks. She is currently writing her first novel, which is about the transformative and healing effects of nature. Read more of her work at Fiona Evans. |
Melanie Faith (USA) | |
Melanie Faith is an English professor, tutor, auntie, and photographer. Her flash fiction appeared in Lost River (December 2017) and Typishly (November 2017) while her photography was published in Fourth & Sycamore and Sediments (both fall 2017). Recent books include a poetry collection, This Passing Fever (FutureCycle Press, September 2017), and two forthcoming craft books for writers called In a Flash and Poetry Power (both from Vine Leaves Press, 2018). Read more about her writing, photography, and publications at her Blog. |
Ignatius Fay (Canada) | |
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. |
Lorin Ford (Australia) | |
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. |
Małgorzata Formanowska (Poland) | |
Malgorzata Formanowska is a haiku writer from Wroclaw, Poland. Her haiku appear in many international printed and online journals. She belongs to the editorial team of Migratory Birds. Almanac of the Polish Haiku Association. She blogs at Mafohaiku. |
Lary Fraser (Canada) | |
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. |
USA (Terri French) | |
Terri L. French is a writer and editor. She currently serves as a Member at Large on The Haiku Foundation. She is also on the editorial team of the online journal, contemporary haibun online. Now retired, Terri and her husband, Ray, and dog, Chaka, enjoy the nomadic lifestyle of full-time RVers. Her publishing credits and books may be found at Terri French. |
Mary Ellen Gambutti (USA) | |
Mary Ellen Gambutti is from the USA. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Gravel Magazine, Wildflower Muse, Remembered Arts Journal, Vignette Review, Modern Creative Life, Thousand and One Stories, Halcyon Days, Nature Writing, PostCard Shorts, Memoir Magazine, Haibun Today, Carpe Arte, Borrowed Solace, Winter Street Writers, Amethyst Review, mac(ro)mic, SoftCartel, Drabble, Drabbelz, FewerThan500, BellaMused, StoryLand, Contemporary Haibun Online. Her chapbook is Stroke Story, My Journey There and Back. She and her husband live in Sarasota, Florida, with their rescued senior Chihuahua, Max. Her blog is Ibis and Hibiscus |
Enrique Garrovillo (Philippines) | |
Enrique Garrovillo is from Cebu City, Philippines. He currently resides in Dipolog City. |
Ivan Georgiev (Bulgaria) | |
Ivan Georgiev is a Bulgarian writer who lives in Germany. He has published three poetry books. His haiku have appeared in Kontinuum, Sommergras and Haiku Heute. |
Grheu u (France) | |
Grheuuhas two Bachelor degrees, one in Arts and the other in Digital Projects, and a Master in Digital Arts. Currently, she works as Freelance Designer and Illustrator. She uses specially markers and China ink for her works, besides digital painting. She loves animals, and enjoys drawing their comic expressions (as seen in her Corgi drawings) and natural situations. Her works are published inArtstation. |
Tomy Ginting (Japan) | |
Tomy Ginting lives in Chiba, Japan. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Tokyo Christian University, 2020. Born and raised in Indonesia, he writes in Indonesian and English |
Judith Gorgone (USA) | |
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. |
Krzysiek Grabara (Poland) | |
Krzysiek Grabara is a human, a painter, a photographer and occasionally a poet. He is based in Warsaw, Poland. His inspirations are deeply in the eastern philosophy of life. |
Richard Grahn (USA) | |
Richard Grahn is an American writer, sculptor, musician, and photographer born in Wisconsin, currently living in Evanston, Illinois. He has traveled extensively and has been writing and creating art for over 30 years. Richard has retired into a full-time poet, sculptor, musician, and photographer, and is the founding collaborative artist at DriftingSands. He has been creating haiku and tanka poetry for about three years but has been writing and producing art for over 30 years. He enjoys the healing qualities (emotionally, physically, and spiritually) of art and a finds them a great source of energy and inspiration. |
Sherry Grant (New Zealand) | |
Originally from Taiwan, Sherry Grant is a New Zealand concert pianist and cellist who started writing poetry in June 2020. Until Christmas of 2021 she has written over 3000 poems. In 2020 Sherry invented a new short poetry form called ‘nonaku’. Sherry is the author of Bat Girl (a poetry collection illustrated by her youngest daughter Zoe Grant) and her short form poetry has appeared in over 50 journals and anthologies. An award-winning rengay poet, Sherry also writes cherita and longer rhymed poems and she is the international/national community outreach officer at the New Zealand Poetry Society. She enjoys organising and performing in music festivals, running rengay gatherings and with her daughters she runs Chalk on the Walk Haiku and Chalk on the Walk Monoku on Facebook. Sherry’s websites are at Sherry Grant. |
Gee Greenslade (Australia) | |
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. |
Eufemia Griffo (Italy) | |
Eufemia Griffo is from Settimo Milanese (Milano) Italy. She is a writer and poet. She has published several books of poetry and fiction. She has won many awards for her writing and she has published her haiku in the best international magazines, journals and columns. In February 2019 she won the first international prize, “R.H. BLYTH AWARD” 2019 organized by Susumu Taikiguchi, Kala Ramesh and Rohini Gupta. Eufemia is a member of the “British Haiku Society” (BHS) since 2017. For the fifth year in a row (2017(2021), Eufemia received “The Certificate, EUROPEAN TOP 100, most creative haiku authors”. Her blog is Eufemia. |
Rohini Gupta (India) | |
Rohini Gupta is a writer from Mumbai, India. She has published several books, writes fiction and haiku and is editor of a couple of haiku magazines. |
Dt. Haase (USA) | |
dt.haase is a haiku poet from Chicago, USA. He hosts The Haiku Circle, a site for those interested in sharing their haiku. |
Judi Hall (Canada) | |
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. |
Jennifer Hambrick (USA) | |
Jennifer Hambrick is A Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of Unscathed (NightBallet Press). Her haiga have won honors in the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, from NHK World TV’s Haiku Masters series – which named her Haiku Master of the Week (8 Aug. 2017) and runner-up for Haiku Master of the week (12 Dec. 2017), and in the World Haiku Association’s haiga contests. Jennifer Hambrick’s poetry has been published in dozens of literary journals and anthologies worldwide, including the Santa Clara Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Main Street Rag, Third Wednesday, Mad River Review, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, Haibun Today, and Haigaonline. A classical singer and public radio broadcaster, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus, Ohio. Her blog is Inner Voices. |
Dan Hardison (USA) | |
Dan Hardison if from Wilmington, North Carolina |
John Hawkhead (UK) | |
John Hawkhead has been writing short-form poetry and illustrating for over 30 years. His work has been published all over the world. John’s books of haiku and senryu, Small Shadows, and Bone Moon, are available from Alba Publishing in the UK Small Shadows, Bone Moon. |
Patricia Hawkhead (UK) | |
Patricia Hawkhead has had haiku, haiga and poetry in publications such as: haigaonline, Bare Bones, Odyssey, Fatchance and Aireings. She lives in the South West of England. |
Mariel Herbert (USA) | |
Mariel Herbert started a regular haiku practice a few years ago. Her poems have appeared in Bones, First Frost, Frogpond, Haiku 2023, Modern Haiku, and Wales Haiku Journal, among other lovely publications. Recently, Mariel has been working on braided haibun and ekphrastic pieces. She also writes speculative and mythic poems and runs a couple of book clubs. Mariel can be found somewhere in Northern California or online at Mariel Herbert . |
Cara Holman (USA) | |
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 Herons 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 . |
Louise Hopewell (Australia) | |
Louise Hopewell is an Australian poet, playwright and songwriter. When not writing, Louise can be found riding her bicycle or playing ukulele (but not at the same time). |
William Douglas Horden (USA) | |
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. |
Marlene Hulst (The Netherlands) | |
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 |
Tzetzka Ilieva (USA) | |
Tzetzka Ilieva lives in Marietta, Georgia, in the suburbs of Atlanta. She writes short poems in Bulgarian and English and is an amateur birdwatcher. |
Jim Kacian (USA) | |
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 |
Barbara Kaufmann (USA) | |
Barbara Kaufmann fell in love with haiku and especially haiga and tanka in 2012 and has been creating Japanese short form poetry since then, drawing inspiration from the beaches, woods and gardens near her home. Her work has been published in Prune Juice, Haigaonline, Hedgerow, Bamboo Hut, Tanshiart and The World Haiku Association Haiga Contest and others. She received a Sakura Award and Honorable Mention in the 2014 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Contest. Her website is wabi-sabi poems and images |
Mary Kendall (USA) | |
Mary Kendall is a poet and retired teaching living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her chapbook, Erasing the Doubt, was published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press, and she is the co-author of A Giving Garden (with Debbie Suggs), published in 2009. In the past year she has had tanka, haiku and haiga published in Ribbons, cattails and hedgerow, and a number of her longer poems have appeared in a variety of publications as well. Mary’s poetry blog can be found at A Poet in Time . |
Robert Kingston (UK) | |
Robert Kingston is an Essex, United Kingdom-based poet. He is a member of the British Haiku Society, The London Haiku Group and current chair of the Essex Haiku Group. He writes and has published Japanese short-form poetry—including haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, cherita, renku, rengay, and haiga—in journals around the globe. He is the winner of the British Haiku Society Award for Haiku 2016 with several other honourable mentions along the way. |
Ronald Kirkland (USA) | |
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 |
Nicholas Klacsanzky (USA) | |
Nicholas Klacsanzky is the editor of Haiku Commentary and the author of three books. He lives in Burien, Washington, USA. |
Lavana Kray (Romania) | |
Lavana Kray is from Romania. The World Haiku Association from Japan awarded her the title of Master Haiga Artist. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications, as well as in Haiga Exhibitions organized by the World Haiku Association in Japan and Italy. She has been nominated for Touchstone Awards 2020. The Laval Literary Society from Canada awarded her the André-Jacob-Entrevous Prize 2023, for a literary text (haiku) combined with an artistic visual. She currently serves as Haiga Editor of the Cattails Review (UHTS). She has published three photo-haiku books, one tankart collection and a haibun book.Her blog is Photo-haiku . |
Azi Kuder (Poland) | |
Azi Kuder live in Gdynia, Poland . She is interested in Japanese culture, especially Haiga. She writes books, poems and creates symbolic painting. |
Laurie Kuntz (USA) | |
Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She taught poetry in Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. |
Sydney Lancaster (Canada) | |
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. |
Gary LeBel (USA) | |
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 Bash?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, K?, 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. |
Peter H.C. Lee (Hong Kong) | |
Dr. Ho Cheung LEE (Peter) resides in Hong Kong where he teaches and writes. He is the founding editor of BALLOONS Lit. Journal. His poetry/short stories have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, River Poet Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, The Chaffey Review, The Interpreters House, The Oddville Press, The Writing Disorder, and elsewhere. Besides, his photography/artwork is forthcoming in Rattle (winter 2016) as cover art, *82 Review (Issue 4.4), and Front Porch Review (Jan 2017). More about him can be found at Ho Cheung Lee. |
Artur Lewandowski (Poland) | |
Artur Lewandowski lives in Sieradz, Poland. His poems have been published on the internet at abc haiku and |
Erika Luckert (Canada) | |
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. |
Oscar Luparia (Italy) | |
Oscar Luparia is an Italian trade union leader. Haiku, mountains and photography are his main passions. Until now he wrote five haiku collections (all available at Oscar Luparia. Since 2011 he has been a member in the jury of the International Haiku Contest established by the Italian association Cascina Macondo. Some of his poems have been published in international journals and websites, including The Mainichi, Failed Haiku, Le Lumachine, Wales Haiku Journal, Les Fleurs ne dorment jamais, Haikuniverse, Incense Dreams, Chrysanthemum, Chanokeburi. |
Mamta Madhavan (USA) | |
Mamta Madhavan lives in India, Her oeuvre includes web content writing, book reviews, interviews, articles, and poetry. Her works have been published in various reputed journals and magazines worldwide, and her poetry collection connecting the dots. She incorporates vivid imagery into her writings influenced by nature, mysticism and spirituality. Her style of writing is mainly free verse. Her blog is at Mamta Madhaven. |
Annette Makino (USA) | |
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. Makinos 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. |
Anna Maris (Sweden) | |
Anna Maris and Chris Maris are from Sweden. Chris Maris is a director of photography. He also enjoys stills photography. Anna Maris is an award winning haiku poet, published by Red Moon Press. Together they have recently started to collaborate on photo-haiga. Their website is Anna Maris |
Kon Markogiannis (Greece) | |
Kon Markogiannis is an artist-poet with an interest in themes such as memory, mortality, spirituality, the human condition, the exploration of the human psyche and the evolution of consciousness. He sees his work as a kind of weapon against the ephemeral or, as Vilém Flusser would say (Towards a Philosophy of Photography), a hunt for new states of things. Kon has been exhibiting his art for many years (mainly in Greece and the UK) and his work has been featured in various books, journals and magazines. His university studies include a BA in Visual Communication Design, an MA in Photography and a Doctorate in Fine Art. He currently lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece Web Page |
Jim McKinnis (USA) | |
Jim McKinnis is a retired mathematician and software engineer. He has an eclectic interest in image making. His current and past photographic projects include the horses of the Badlands in South Dakota, the homeless of Los Angeles, cemeteries in Italy and the Mask Festival in Venice. Jim lives in Orcutt, California, USA. For samples of his work visit at McKinniss |
Andy McLellan (UK) | |
Andy McLellan is from Canterbury, UK.He is a haiku poet who practices Zen Buddhism and has a PhD in plant biology. |
Nishant Mehrotra (India) | |
Nishant Mehrotra is from Surat, India. He is an electrical engineer and a literature and short-form poetry enthusiast. |
Penney Mellen (USA) | |
Penney L. Mellen is a Michigan-based self-taught artist. A Speech/Language Pathologist by profession, she blends her love of art with 30 years of work in the field of Communication Disorders. She creates art that connects people with the events in their daily lives and believes taking time for oneself provides the space needed to celebrate life’s highs while managing the lows. Penney values ideas, multiple perspectives, helping others, and making products that honor, solve, and serve. Check out her art and more at Penny Mellen Art |
Anushka Menon (Australia) | |
Anushka Menon (Sydney, Australia) is a visual artist, photographer and a budding astronomer. Anushkas love for birds and animals is what drew her to photography. She has infinite patience to shoot wildlife as well as paint it. Her passion for photography now includes astrophotography. Capturing an image and letting it tell its story is what she keeps in mind with every picture she takes. A few of her photographs can be viewed on Aunshka Menon. |
Karla Linn Merrifield (USA) | |
Karla Linn Merrifield has 13 books to her credit, the newest of which is Psyche’s Scroll, a book-length poem, from The Poetry Box Select in June 2018. Forthcoming in 2019 is her full-length book, Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North, from Cirque Press. Her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing) received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is assistant editor and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye. Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet Redux. Following in the venerable Japanese tradition, I have created a collection of 93 (to date) haiga based on the nude artworks of American artist John Sloan (1871-1951). In This Magnificent Flirtation, the haiga reflect on the nature of art and the human desire to create, appreciate, collect and curate art. |
Malgorzata Miksiewicz (Poland) | |
Ma?gorzata Miksiewicz is from Wroc?aw, 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 . |
Leanne Mumford (Australia) | |
Leanne Mumford is an Australian writer and photographer, who enjoys practising her crafts wherever she goes. Leanne has travelled widely in Japan, from Hokkaidō to Okinawa. Since 2012 her haiku, haiga and haibun have appeared in various Australian and international print and online journals and anthologies. Leanne is a founding member of the online Inkstone Poetry Forum. She contributes periodically to the Meguro International Haiku circle and joined the Seabeck Haiku Getaway in 2016 & 2020. Her website is Le Mumford |
Sakuo Nakamura (Japan) | |
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. |
James November (USA) | |
Jim November is a practicing psychologist, professor of psychology and amateur photographer specializing in beach scenes along Florida’s Atlantic coast. |
Robert Nowak (Poland) | |
Robert Bogus?aw Nowak lives and works in Wa?brzych, 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 |
Cristina Omichi-Smith (USA) | |
Cristina Omichi-Smith if from the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She is a photographer and artist who photographs nature and landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. |
Ranjana Pai (India) | |
Ranjana Balachandra Pai is an aspiring Nature and wildlife Photographer. Her haiga have been widely published. Her artwork work can be followed at Ranjana Pai |
Nicole Pakan (Canada) | |
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. |
Marianne Paul (Canada) | |
Marianne Paul is a Canadian novelist and poet. In the past few years, she has developed a keen interest in haiku, working to learn the form and “scale down” her words. More recently, she has been experimenting with the combination of micro-poetry and images. Her work has appeared in a variety of online and print journals, including Daily Haiku. An avid kayaker, Marianne is also passionate about lakes and rivers. You can learn more about her work at Marianne Paul and literary kayak. |
Brett Peruzzi (USA) | |
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 |
Vuong Pham (Australia) | |
Vuong Pham is a teacher, poet and studying counsellor. He loves reading and writing haiku. |
Patrick M. Pilarski (Canada) | |
Patrick M. Pilarski is assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada). He is the associate poetry editor for DailyHaiga, and co-editor of DailyHaiku. Patricks 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 Canadas 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. |
Razvan Pintea (Romania) | |
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. |
Nicole Pottier (France) | |
Nicole Pottier is from France. She lives in Normandy. She studied foreign languages and literature. She’s very found of travelling, photographing and writing poetry. She’s now a translator. ?She translates works from authors both classical and contemporary.? She publishes poetry, essays in literary magazines, and photos on the National Geographic site. Her haiku poems and haiga (photo-poems) regularly appear in many languages in reviews like Haiku (Romania), Haiku Canada (Canada), Ploc!, Haikouest (France), Diogen Pro Kultura ( Croatia), World Haiku Association (Japan). In 2014, she won the First Prize at the international Haiku Foundation Contest 2014 (USA) for her haiku in English in the traditional category, and a third prize at the “Kusamakura” haiku contest (Japan). Her blog is at and |
Sandi Pray (USA) | |
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 |
Dorota Pyra (Poland) | |
Dorota Pyra lives and works in Gdansk, Poland. Her haiku and haiga have appeared, among others, in Haigaonline, Sketchbook, and WHAs haiga monthly contest as well as in paper publications. Her blog is rozsypany czas scattered time |
Carol Raisfeld (USA) | |
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. |
Ray Rasmussen (Canada) | |
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 |
Dian Duchin Reed (USA) | |
Dian Duchin Reed is an award-winning writer whose poems and essays have appeared in many publications. Her new book (Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Ancient Wisdom) is a modern translation of a Chinese philosopher whose observations are full of insight and mystery. Learn more atDian Reed. |
Sarah Rehfeldt (USA) | |
Sarah Rehfeldt lives with her family in western Washington where she is a writer, artist, and photographer. Her publication credits include Appalachia; Written River; Weber The Contemporary West; and Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction. Sarah is the author of Somewhere South of Pegasus, a collection of image poems. Her book can be purchased from her website at: Sarah Rehfeldt |
Moira Richards (USA) | |
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. |
Emily Romano (USA) | |
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. Emilys 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 Herons 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 |
Ann Roske (USA) | |
Ann Roske is from Jefferson, Oregon. By day, she is a business analyst. By night a poet who writes in pencil. |
Alexis Rotella (USA) | |
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. |
Lidia Rozmus (USA) | |
Lidia Rozmus was born in Poland and studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakw 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 Dandelions Flight – Haiku and Sumi-e (Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award for design); |
Neni Rusliana (Indonesia) | |
Neni Rusliana lives in Bandung. Indonesia. She likes to paint on various media, on canvas, fabric and glass. Since 3 years ago, she enjoys creating haiku and haiga. |
Olivier Schopfer (Switzerland) | |
Olivier Schopfer lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a degree in American and English literature and he likes to capture the moment in haiku and photography. His work has appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2014 and both in print as well as online in numerous journals such as Acorn, Bones, bottle rockets, Chrysanthemum, Issa’s Untidy Hut, Modern Haiku, moongarlic E-zine, NeverEnding Story, Presence, Prune Juice, Sonic Boom & Under the Basho. He also writes articles in French about etymology and everyday expressions: 24 Heures |
Michael Seese (USA) | |
Michael Seese is an information security professional by day. Or, as his son could say even at age three, “Daddy keeps people’s money safe.” He has published four books: The Secret World Of Gustave Eiffel, Haunting Valley, Scrappy Business Contingency Planning, and Scrappy Information Security, not to mention a lot of flash fiction, short stories, and poems. Other than that, he spends his spare time rasslin’ with three young’uns. To laugh with him or at him, visit MichaelSeese. |
Richa Sharma (India) | |
Richa Sharma has been writing Japanese short form poetry for about two years, inspired by her love for nature and language. Her work has appeared in numerous journals. |
Adelaide Shaw (USA) | |
Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, NY. She is a well published poet of Japanese short-form poetry, including haiga. She has been creating Japanese poetic forms for fifty years. Her books, An Unknown Road and The Distance I’ve Come, are available on Amazon. She posts published work on Adelaide Shaw |
Kuniharu Shimizu (Japan) | |
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 |
Slawa Sibiga (Poland) | |
Slawa Sibiga is a haiku poet and nature lover. She Lives and creates in Tychy, Poland. She is the author of Dream about Japan Haiku, Trace on the Moon Haiku, The Shape of the Wind and Roses at dusk. She is a founding member of Polish Haiku Association. |
Brendan Slater (UK) | |
Brendan Slater lives in England. Bio: Man, husband, father, scribbler. |
Debbie Strange (Canada) | |
Debbie Strange is an internationally published short form poet, haiga artist and photographer from Canada. Her creative passions bring her closer to the world and to herself. Her art has appeared in numerous journals, and an exhibition of award-winning works is showcased in The Haiku Foundation Haiga Galleries. She is the author ofWarp and Weft: Tanka Threads(Keibooks 2015) and the haiku chapbook,A Year Unfolding(Folded Word 2017). You are invited to visit her archive of published work at Debbie Strange. |
Irena Szewczyk (Poland) | |
Irena Szewczyk lives in Warsaw Poland, a haiku poet and photographer. She writes her blog Iris Haiku in English, French, Hungarian and Polish. Her works have been awarded in contests and published in magazines, reviews and anthologies all over the world. She has earned the title of the World Haiku Association Master Haiga Artist. Author of a bilingual haiku book entitled drugi brzeg/the other shore containing her poems, photographs and haiga. She is one of founding members and a former board member of the Polish Haiku Association. |
Tiana Tallant (USA) | |
Tiana Tallant is a senior at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. |
Eduard Tara (Romania) | |
Eduard Tara is from Iasi, Romania. He is a mathematics teacher at a secondary school near Iasi and a member of Romanian Haiku Society since 1992. From 2002, he has won 135 prizes at international haiku contests and 13 prizes at international tanka contests. He has won awards for his haiku in 26 countries on all the continents (excepting Antarctica). His poems have been written or translated by the author himself in 20 different languages. |
Barbara Taylor (Australia) | |
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.” Barbaras 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. |
Christine Taylor (USA) | |
Christine Taylor is an English teacher and librarian at a local independent school. She resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey. Her work appears in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Presence, and Shamrock Haiku Journal among others. She can be found at Christine Taylor. |
Elisa Theriana (Indonesia) | |
Elisa Theriana, from Indonesia, working as computer programmer, a haiku lover and photography enthusiast. |
Tia (Indonesia) | |
Tia is from Tangerang, Indonesia. She is a 2nd grade teacher in an elementary school who loves storytelling and reading classic novels. |
Corine Timmer (Portugal) | |
Corine Timmer is an interior designer, artist, award-winning haiku poet, writer, publisher, and animal lover. She lives in the countryside in the south of Portugal with 9 street dogs and other animals, including her beloved donkey, Lolita. She is a member of the British and American haiku societies. Corine is the creator and editor of the annual Chinese zodiac haiku anthologies since 2018. Her favorite season is autumn. Corine Timmer. |
Maria Tomczak (Poland) | |
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. |
Kay Tracy (USA) | |
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. |
Zuzanna Truchlewska (Poland) | |
Zuzanna Truchlewska lives in ?aziska Grne in Poland. She is a teacher in an elementary school. She writes haiku, haiga and poems. She loves books, mountains and her son Kacper. Since 2011 she is the editor of Poetry |
Charles Trumbull (USA) | |
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 |
Christine Villa (USA) | |
Christine L. Villa Christine L. Villa is, among other things, a published childrens writer, a photographer, and a jewelry maker. It was in 2011 when she started being passionate about creating haiku and haiga. Her work has appeared in Berry Blue Haiku, A Handful of Stones, Notes From the Gean, Asahi Haikuist Network, ITO EN North America New Haiku Grand Prix (Semifinalist for the Month), One Hundred Gourds, Haigaonline and Haiku Pix Review. She loves collecting her haiku and photographs at blossomrain. |
William Vlach (USA) | |
William Vlach has published essays include topics such as police psychology, the history of ethics, film noir, and the psychology of genocide. His first literary historical novel, The Golden Chalice of Hunahpú, won the 2015 BAIPA award for best novel. His explorations into global trickster humor led to The Gospel According to Father Coffee. His web site is William Vlach. He continues his practice of clinical psychology in San Francisco where he lives with his wife, Norita. |
Steliana Voicu (Romania) | |
Steliana Cristina Voicu lives in Ploie?ti, Romania and loves painting, poetry, Japanese culture, photography and astronomy. Her Haiku, Haiga and Tanka have been published in Asahi Haikuist Network, WHA Haiga Contest, The Mainichi, A Hundred Gourds, Ploc la revue du Haiku, CIRRUS tankas de nos jours, Chrysanthemum, DIOGEN pro kultura magazin and others. Her personal site is Steliana Voicu |
Alice Wanderer (Australia) | |
Alice Wanderer is from Australia. She has written a haiku every day since 2018. Her book of translations of selected haiku of Sugita Hisajo, Lips Licked Clean, won a Touchstone Award for 2021. She began publishing haibun in 2020. |
Michael Wetteland (USA) | |
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. |
Liam Wilkinson (UK) | |
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 |
Jane Williams (Australia) | |
Jane Williams is an Australian writer and poet based in Tasmania. Her work has been widely published since the early 1990s. She travels with her partner and has read her poems in Ireland, England, USA, Canada, Czech Republic and Malaysia. She writes across several forms and enjoys collaborating with other artists. She has haiga at haigablog. She blogs at jane willliams. |
Joan Williams (UK) | |
Joan Williams started creating some six years ago after Romano Zeraschi introduced her to haiga and haiku during a trip to Italy. Her haiku have been accepted by the WHA monthly editions and also one in their 2016 special edition. She enjoys painting and reading and of course creating haiga and haiku. |
Linda Wolff (USA) | |
Linda J. Wolff lives in Seattle, Washington, USA. She’s currently the editor of online journal (Wolff Poetry) and resource site for beginning writers. |
André Wong (Sweden) | |
André Wong is from Stockholm, Sweden. He started writing and reading haiku around 2015 and enjoys it a lot. |
Jeffrey Yamaguchi (USA) | |
Jeffrey Yamaguchi creates projects with words, photos, and video as art explorations, as well as through his work in the publishing industry. His writing has been published by formercactus, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Spork Press, Quick Fiction, The Morning News, Clamor, Fortune, The Glut, Pindeldyboz, Word Riot and more. His first book was 52 Projects, and he recently released the short film Body of Water. His website is Jeffrey Yamaguchi |
Anna Yin (Canada) | |
Anna Yin was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and has authored five poetry collections and a book of translations: Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions) in 2021. Her poems/translations have appeared at Queen’s Quarterly, ARC Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal etc. Anna won several poetry awards from Canada, USA and China for her poems in Chinese and English. She teaches Poetry, edits poetry/translation, and hosts readings and workshops. Her website is Anna Yin |
Rafal (RaV) Zabratynski (Poland) | |
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. |
Eva Zimet (USA) | |
Eva Zimet is a teaching artist, writer and illustrator. Her work draws on improvisational skill sets and the practice of Argentine tango. Born in New York City, Eva earned an MFA from Columbia University and a JD from Vermont Law School. Find her poetry collection The Lost Grip, and her children’s picture book Lucy Dancerat Rootstock Publishing. More at Eva Zimet. |