Faye Brinsmead's short fictions have been published in many US and UK online journals and several print anthologies. A lifelong reader of haiku, she hasn't written many herself - until now. She lives in Canberra, Australia, where she works as a legislative drafter for the Australian government. She tweets microfiction and haiku @ContesdeFaye.
Fiona H lives in Ireland. She has poems published online in LUNCH poetry journal (2018, 2019), Poetry in the Plague Year (2020); and at Lunch Ticket literary magazine (March 2020). She also has a poem in Keywords ep.8, broadcast on RTE Radio 1 (June 2020)
Garret Schuelke hails from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is the author of the GODAN series (2018-present, Bakunin Incorporated) WHUP JAMBOREE: STORIES (2017, Elmblad Media Group), ANAMAKEE (2016, Riot Forge) and three poetry ebooks. He is also the host of The Garret Schuelke Podcast. His favorite haiku writer is Jack Kerouac, and he considers his haiku's to be written in the same vein as Kerouac's, which he dubbed “Pops”.
He can be reached at his official website.
Gary Hittmeyer was born in Brooklyn, NY during the fabulous fifties. A semi-retired IT worker, he currently lives quietly in the beautiful Hudson River Valley of New York State,
where he enjoys NY Mets baseball, silver age comics, BBC crime dramas, classic rock, and Japanese short form poetry. He has been published in a variety of online and print haiku journals.
Geoff Pope has taught English Composition and Literature at several colleges and universities in the Seattle area (currently at Green River College). He was an editor with the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa, where he received a master’s degree in Literary Studies. His haiku and senryu have appeared in Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Sonic Boom, Bones, Hedgerow, Haikuniverse, Chrysanthemum, Failed Haiku, Under the Basho, Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, Lilliput Review, a Seabeck Haiku Getaway anthology, and he has a monoku forthcoming in the Modern Haiku Press Haiku 2021 anthology.
Gilly Pawson is an English-born poet, artist and Anglican priest. She still remembers by heart the first poem she ever wrote about her dog when she was nine years old,: a simple verse of five lines and fifteen syllables. Gilly expresses her thoughts and emotions with simplicity and profundity within the liberating boundaries of the 5-7-5 structure. Gilly now lives in the historic centre of Málaga, Spain where her daily walks with the dog on the nearby wooded-hill, provide a rich resource of inspiration and spiritual nourishment. Whilst living in Spain, Gilly has participated in many cultural events, reciting her work which often combines English and Spanish creating two voices in conversation. She has self published various illustrated anthologies and has contributed work to two online publications: Grito de Mujer and María Blanchard: La Dama de cubismo (en.calameo.com).
Hassane Zemmouri, was born on 17th of January, 1991. He is from Algiers/ Algeria. A haijin, children's stories writer and a poet. He started writing haiku in September 2017. He has been writing haiku in Arabic, English and French since 2019, also he sometimes writes tanka and haibun, and started to create haiga in December 2020. In November 2021, he started writing rengay with Sherry Grant (Poetess from New Zealand).
Some of his work are published in the 5th and 6th anthologies of Haiku Column and in few French Haiku anthologies, The Mamba, Seashores. Daily Haiga and Our Best Haiga.
He won a commendation in IRIS Little HAIKU Contest 2020 (Croatia), the first prize in Beauchamp Haiku Contest 2020 (France), third place in Revista Haiku Contest 2021 French-Language Section (Romania). Second place in My Haiku Pond 5th anniversary Haiga Contest. Honorable Mention in the 4th edition of Santoka International Haiga Contest 2021
Helen Buckingham lives in Somerset, in the southwest of England. Her short form poetry appears regularly in journals such as Acorn, is/let, Noon and Presence, and has been anthologised in, among others, Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press, 2011), Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013), nada annunaad (Vishwakarma Publications, 2016), The Wonder Code (Girasole Press, 2017), Wishbone Moon (Jacar Press, 2018), Unsealing Our Secrets (Jade Mountain Press, 2018), and The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (Brooks Books, 2019). Collections include: the Touchstone Award shortlisted water on the moon (Original Plus, 2010), mirrormoon (Original Plus, 2010), Christmas City (Othername Press, 2010), Turning Fifty (Angela Leuck, 2010), Little Purple Universes (Angela Leuck, 2011), Armadillo Basket (Waterloo Press, 2011) and the Touchstone shortlisted Sanguinella (Red Moon Press, 2017). Her work has been placed in a number of contests and in 2016 won the Martin Lucas Haiku Award.
Humaira Sholihat loves writing and reading.She wants to be a doctor and help people.
Ian Richardson has been reading books and comics for a long time. Eventually, inevitably, he began to write and gained enough confidence to share his work publicly. His short story ‘Mile Dorcha’ (The Dark Mile) won William Meikle’s 1st Annual Moonlight Nicht competition and, in September 2015, his Scots language poem 'Whit Fettle.' was overall winner in Scottish Borders ‘Waverley Lines' competition.
In November 2016 Ian was presented with the Anstruther Writing Award.
Since then he has had his work published in numerous journals, online and in print, and has performed his poetry around Great Britain.
Ian lives on the East coast of Scotland and, when he isn’t reading or writing, he enjoys walking his dog and exploring the countryside with his camera in hand.
He has recently been studying haiku and micro-poetry, many examples of which can be found on Twitter.
Ian Speed was born in Scotland and worked in finance in the USA and Germany before retiring and moving to England to be close to family.
His hobbies and interests are writing poetry and prose, cycling, yoga, playing sports and chess.
Isabella Kramer lives with her husband and two cats at Lower Saxony, North Germany near Hannover. For years, she has been a passionate poet, author, commercial photographer and painter.
She published her first book with German poems, weniger bis meer, and also contributed to several anthologies. You can read her cheritas, free verses, haiku, haiga, tanka and senryus at her blogs: veredita and haiku-veredita.
Isabella Mori’s favourite pronoun is “fae.” Fae writes poetry, novels, short stories and non-fiction, and has published two books of and about poetry, including A bagful of haiku – 87 imperfections. Isabella has published and blogged over 1,000 articles online and in traditional media, is a Simon Fraser University The Writers Studio alumna, and won the 2018 Cecilia Lamont Poetry First Prize in poetry. Fae’s work has appeared in publications such as the haiku journal Kingfisher and The Group Of Seven Reimagined, an anthology that sets short stories (in her case, a haibun) to Group Of Seven paintings. Isabella founded Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, which celebrates engaged poetry and community involvement. Fae grew up in Germany, has lived in the UK, Paraguay and Chile, and calls Vancouver home. Fae works in psychiatry and co-edits Family Connections, a newsletter for people touched by mental health and addiction.
JL Huffman is a retired Trauma surgeon/ICU doctor, prior medical editor of NE Florida Medicine, printed in the surgical literature (publish or perish) and has won numerous poetry contests. Her first poetry book, Almanac: The Four Seasons, was published in 2020 and was awarded the High Country Writers Book of the Year Award.
She has works in three poetry compendiums of the Mad Poets Society, four of the Moonstone Arts Center (both in Philadelphia), as well as in two anthologies--Being a Woman Surgeon: Sixty Women Share Their Stories and High Country Headwaters III.
This year she has focused on haiku with works published on Poetry Pea, Asahi Haikuist Network and Cold Moon Journal.
She’s an avid gardener & hopes to resume world travel when COVID abates. She writes in diverse genres: poetry, memoir & fiction.
Jack Galmitz was born in NYC in 1951. He spent 5 years in Buffalo while he attended graduate school studying American literature. He was a contributing editor at Roadrunner while it was still being published and wrote socio-analytical reviews of the works of 14 prominent haiku poets, essays which eventuated in the book Views. He has published in otoliths regularly, is/let, heliosparrow poetry journal, and also in such journals as And/Or and fleasonthedog. Chris Gordon, the editor and publisher of ant, ant, ant, ant published a collection of Mr. Galmitz's poems in a chapbook titled The Coincidence of Stars.
Jackie Chou is a poet of both free verse poetry and Japanese short forms. She resides in sunny Southern California where she gets her inspirations from city birds and flowers. Her work has been published in Atlas Poetica, hedgerow, Akitsu, Prune Juice, Failed Haiku, Femku, and others.
Jacob Blumner is a teacher and writer who began writing haiku during the Flint Water Crisis of 2014 as a mindfulness practice and connection to his love of the outdoors. His haiku have appeared in numerous publications, including Frogpond, Bloo Outlier Journal, Qua, and Failed Haiku. He is a member of the Evergreen Haiku group, and when not hugging trees or taking his dog into the woods, he enjoys spending time with his family. He lives with his family and pets in Flint, Michigan in the United States.
James Meredith is from Belfast on the island of Ireland.
His stories & poems have been published in Ireland, the UK, Europe & the USA, including The Stinging Fly, Abridged, The Honest Ulsterman, The Incubator Journal, Lagan Press Poetry Originals, 34th Parallel, A Hundred Gourds, FourXFour Poetry, Tellus & Black and Blue amongst others.
A chapbook of 120 haiku, senryu and tanka, a wine cup with base, was published by Pen Points Press in 2016.
He has had three two-poet anthologies published in bilingual editions in Romania: drawers of sand (2014), burnt offering (2016) & cutting the shadow of love... (2017).
He has also had poetry & haiku published in translation in Romania in the literary journals Acolada, Alternante, Contempuranil, Confesiuni, Convorbiri Literare, Poezia & Semne. All translations by Dr. Olivia Iacob.
James Welsh is the pseudonym of a thirty something mature student from the UK.
A long time unpublished but ever hopeful short story writer he found that haiku helps to focus wordplay and enjoys every attempt to properly capture a moment in just a few lines.
James Young lives in Wales, UK, where he is a retired research technician in medical school. Despite his retirement he still runs a medical website.
James swims in the sea every day of the year - no wetsuit. Not having a car he walks everywhere and notices ‘things’ .
He has a photo blog established in 2005.
Janice began writing haiku in 2018 after attending a haiku workshop on a whim. Her debut collection, Stardust, was published in 2021. She placed second in the Porad Haiku Award contest in 2021 and 2022. Her essay Following Basho Following Zoka was published in Frogpond in Winter 2023. Samples of Janice’s haiku and haibun can be read on the Poet’s Hub in the Drifting Sands Haibun website. She lives at the edge of a forest in Massachusetts in the USA.
Jason lives in the foothills of north Georgia, with his lovely wife of 25 years and four beautiful children. Jason has written poetry since his grade school years after the encouragement of a teacher who recognized his grammatical challenges from dyslexia. He enjoys writing in all types of poetry styles but is particularly fond of those that give a cherished highlight to his soul mate. He also writes for family, friends, and strangers as a typewriter poet, finds haiku/senryu in the subtle ebb and flow of life, and even discovers his playful side with children's poetry.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, Jennifer Hambrick won First Place in the 2018 Haiku Society of America Haibun Award Competition and in the Fall 2020 Sheila-Na-Gig Press Poetry Competition; was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser to be featured in American Life in Poetry; was appointed the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at historic Bryn Du Mansion, Granville, Ohio; and authored the poetry collection Unscathed (NightBallet Press). Hundreds of her poems appear in The American Journal of Poetry, Chiron Review, the Santa Clara Review, The Main Street Rag, POEM, The San Pedro River Review, Maryland Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Mad River Review, Oyster River Pages, Modern Haiku, The Haibun Journal, Frogpond, Mayfly, DailyHaiga, Haigaonline, the major Japanese newspapers The Asahi Shimbun and The Mainichi, and in many other journals and anthologies. A frequent recipient of poetry commissions, Jennifer Hambrick has also received numerous awards and other recognitions for her poetry, including from Tokyo’s NHK World TV, the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational, the Golden Haiku Competition, the Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Competition, Haiku Poets of Northern California, the Ohio Poetry Association, and others. A classical musician and public radio broadcaster and web producer, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Jenni Wyn Hyatt was born in Maesteg, South Wales, in 1942 but now lives in Derbyshire, England. A retired English teacher, she did not start to write poetry until she was in her late sixties. Her subjects include childhood memories, nature, injustice and war and she also writes humorous poems and short forms such as haiku and tanka as well as translating poetry from Welsh to English. She has published two collections, ‘Perhaps One Day’ (2017) and ‘Striped Scarves and Coal Dust’ (2019).
Jitendra Menghani is an Architect Planner and teaches at Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. Having keen interest in art, design and literature, his work is embedded in the urban phenomena. His haiku and micro-poems are reflections of our urban routines, circumstances, situations, events and imageries.
Joan C. Fingon lives in sunny Ventura California with her husband and cat writing poetry in her back garden. Her poetry is published in frogpond, Haiku Journal, and other poetry journals.
Joe Sebastian is 56 years of age. He chanced upon Haiku poetry and got totally hooked on to it -its sheer sparse simplicity, Zen like mysticism on beauteous, bountiful and beautiful nature, life and its multifarious interactions, all leading to deep insight in revelatory ' Aha' moments in time and space deeply appeals to me.
I work for the Government of India and am an officer of the Indian Revenue Service( IRS) and currently posted in Chennai ,India, as Principal Commissioner of Income -Tax, and have recently penned a collection of Haiku poetry titled 'MYRIAD MUSINGS',which is readily available on Amazon.
I am happily married and blessed with a wife ,daughter ,son and our Golden Retriever ,Scotch who gives me company when faced with 'writers block'. My interests include music, travelling, gardening and penning haiku, other Japanese short forms besides Sufi poetry.
John Hawkhead lives in south west England. Apart from writing haiku he enjoys walking, swimming, illustration and all kinds of writing.
His book Small Shadows is published by Alba Publishing.
Jonathan enjoys writing fiction and other forms of poetry as well as traveling.
Jonathan's collection of haiku, haiga, and haibun written in and about Iceland, Deeper Into Winter, was published in September 2019.
Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. His newest chapbook, Origami Lilies, is available on Poet’s Haven Press. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.
Julie Gomez is the author of three books, Collecting Wild Herbs, Medicinal Fruits & Berries, and Identifying Deadly Herbs. Her haiku poetry, articles, drawings, and photography have been published locally and abroad. An avid outdoors woman and naturalist, she lives with her husband in the Oregon Cascades near Mount Hood National Forest. She is currently writing her fourth guidebook.
Books can be found at Hancock house and Amazon and amazon.com
Kanchan Chatterjee works as a revenue officer in government of India and writes haiku in his spare time. He's been writing haiku since 2012 and have been published in many haiku magazines across the globe, e.g. The Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi, Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Chrysanthemum etc. His works won The Haiku Master of the month more than once on the NHK Haiku Masters series.
He's has several awards including Second prize in Mainichi Haiku Contest, 2017, Eto en oi ocha haiku contest, 2017 (Honorable mention), Romanian haiku contest 2018 ( Second prize), Genjuan haibun contest, 2020 ( Honorable mention).
He loves music, reading, good food, cooking and traveling.
Poet, editor, anthologist, festival director, Kala Ramesh’s initiatives culminated in founding ‘INhaiku' to bring Indian haikai poets together in 2013. She has been a dedicated and foremost advocate of haikai literature, which includes haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, haiga and renku in India. She has a prolific record as an editor of seven international collections of haiku, and tanka anthologies. She also teaches an undergraduate course at the Symbiosis International University, and, since 2012, for school students at the Katha National Writers Workshop. She has organized seven major haiku festivals and to bring haiku into everyday spaces, Kala has initiated several successful projects in India.
Her book of haiku and haibun Beyond the Horizon Beyond, was declared a finalist in the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 and received a certificate for ‘excellent contribution to literature’ and her book of tanka, tanka prose and tanka doha to be published by HarperCollins in July 2021.
Her Books:
- beyond the horizon beyond - US
- Haiku Companion and Activity Book
- Katha First Book of Haiku, Senryu, Tanka and Haibun
eBooks:
- tanka 'unseen arc' snapshot press
- bones 'one-line twos' & marlene mountain
Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. In early 2021, her Half a World of Kisses will be published by Truth Serum Press (Australia) under its new Lindauer Poets imprint. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY).
Kat Lehmann holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and an unwavering awe of nature and the process of personal transformation. Her poems have been published in frogpond, Mayfly, Rattle, and elsewhere. Her third book, Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Poems (2019), shares her meditative notes of self-exploration.
Kate Alsbury is a writer & editor – and everything else that comes along with it.
She loves nature and enjoy many outdoor activities including hiking and horseback riding. Music, films/tv, and cooking usually round out my days. And of course, reading.
She started Jalmurra, an online journal with a focus on nature, science, art, and the environment, to support her partly crowdfunded project that works to save forests and farmland from development. Kate's love of science and nature also had something to do with it. It seems like there aren't that many places to share writing and art related to the aforementioned subjects.
At the moment, Jalmurra is accepting poetry, art, fiction, essays, and anything else that relates to nature or science.
Twitter @land_alliance to keep up to date on what's going on.
Kathleen Tice was born in Arizona, USA. Her professions have been TEFL instructor, kindergarten teacher, and publication assistant for Dragonfly: East-West Haiku Quarterly. She attended Brigham Young University-Provo for a BS in Family and Consumer Sciences, and San Jose State University for a M Ed in Elementary Education. She is married to Richard Tice. They have 5 children and 13 grandchildren. Her interests include quilting, old movies, reading, writing poetry, genealogy, camping, and exercising at the gym. She lives in Kent, Washington, USA.
Kati Mohr, born 1976, is a disabled, intuitive artist, living in Germany with her family and two rabbits. Armed with books, scissors, ink, magnets, and her phone, she creates for self-reflection and to advocate for human rights. Her heart beats for the small things being big: minimalist art, coffee, cuddles, and respectful manners. You can find Kati on Instagram and Linktree
K. M. Huber (she/her) grew up in Seattle, studied theater in Oregon, and moved to NYC where she earned an MS in Social Work and worked in the Garment District and Hell's Kitchen when both still lived up to their names. Huber later moved to Lima with her Peruvian husband, whose work took them also to Bolivia, Costa Rica, and Atlanta, returning them to Lima a decade later. There, Huber worked with educational organizations while exploring Peru. Her research for a novel about ancient Nazca led to an award-winning documentary with a local filmmaker about deforestation in southern Peru. An excerpt from the novel (not yet published) appeared recently in Poydras Review. Huber’s essays, poems and stories have also appeared in Rougarou, MacGuffin, Post Road, and failbetter.com, among others. She and her husband recently moved to Tennessee where they are lucky to have a forest less than a block away.
Keith Evetts gardens and writes poetry in Thames Ditton. His full length poems have been published in The Oxford Magazine and Linnets Wings, and lately above a hundred haiku, senryu, sequences and cherita in several journals and in The Cherita.
Kendall Lott was born and raised in a small village in Alabama. He is a retired counseling psychologist and university administrator living in Bloomington, Indiana. He writes non-fiction prose and poetry out of pure delight and as a way to keep himself connected to the past, engaged with the present and hopeful for the future. He began writing haiku and haibun two years ago at age 77. His poems have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, The Haiku Journal, Haibun Today, Under the Basho, and others.
Kevin MacNeil was born and raised in the Outer Hebrides. He is an award-winning writer (poet, novelist, dramatist) and a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. He has authored six books, edited a similar number, and written for television, radio, film and theatre.
Kim Russell lives in North Norfolk in the UK, although a Londoner born and bred. She lived for most of her late teens and early twenties in Germany and Ireland.
Having retired from teaching five years ago, she has more time for writing, although she still does volunteer work with children at local schools and libraries.
Her wild garden is a source of inspiration, where she has a variety of trees, shrubs, birds and animals, including deer.
Kristen Lindquist is a naturalist and writer living in the United States on the coast of Maine. Her published works include two books of poetry and an ongoing natural history column in the local paper. She has written a "daily" haiku blog for the past ten years and occasionally teaches haiku workshops.