Lakshmi Iyer

Lakshmi Iyer, a homemaker lives in 'God's own country' , Kerala in India.

In 2017 she came across Haikai and ventured into its various genres. An active member on Triveni too!

Her haiku, haibun, senryu and tanka has been selected in the following journals; Lucas's Lily Pad, Harusame, EarthRise Rolling Collaboration 2019, Autumn / Winter of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 2019, The Haiku Foundation, Haiku at Bristol Museum 2020, 7th Annual Golden Triangle 2020, Anthology of Indian Haiku in English Language 2020, Under the Basho 2019 and 2020, High Commendation in Australian Haiku Society 2020, Editors Choice Certificate by Tanka Origins 2020, The Bamboo Hut - Number- 4, 2020; Irish Haiku Society - issue #45, Cicada's Cry Special Edition of Covid19, Drifting Sands Haibun - issue #3

12 th Yamadera Basho Museum English Haiku Contest.

Lana M Rochel

Lana M. 'Rochel is a writer, poet, and lyricist whose work has appeared in BFS Horizons, the Poetry Pea Journal of haiku and senryu, and Rejected Manuscripts.

Qualified English teacher, interpreter, Lana writes creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, song lyrics, and children's.

Laura Lynn Driscoll

Laura Lynn Driscoll is married to her husband of thirty-one years (Dax), she is the mother of two adult daughters and the fun-loving grandmother of four grandchildren.  

She was first inspired to write poetry in 2013 while reading “Sitting by My Laughing Fire” by Ruth Bell Graham. She also enjoys painting, her preferred medium is acrylic on canvas.  A nurse by profession she resigned her role as a Office Nurse for a Family Physician in Ontario in 2019 to relocate West.  Now retired, Laura Lynn is pursuing her dream of writing poetry and painting. 

Lavana Kray

Lavana Kray is from Romania.

She is passionate about writing and photography.

As a photographer, she was featured in a few collective exhibitions, while also organizing a few of her own.

World Haiku Association (where she has been awarded the status of Master Haiga Artist) has selected some of her works for the photo-haiku Exhibition in Japan and Parma, Italy.

She is the haiga editor of the United haiku and tanka Society's Journal Cattails

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Lee Hudspeth

Lee Hudspeth’s debut poetry book Incandescent Visions was self-published in 2019. He is currently working on a second poetry book. His haiku have been published in Cold Moon Journal and Poetry Pea Journal. He is also the co-author of ten nonfiction books in the Information Technology genre. For Lee, poetry is an attempt to describe the ineffable; to resonate with all manner of inscrutable experiences: a crescent moon at twilight; the emotional landscape of the moment when you watch your family drive off after a holiday visit; the sound of the wind... Lee writes poems to make some sense of the world.

 

 

 

 

Lekha Desai Morrison

Lekha Desai Morrison enjoys writing poetry, short stories, and plays. Her work has been performed on radio, stage, Vimeo and YouTube. Her play Misfits was streamed live via Zoom during the lockdown and can be found on YouTube here . She wrote a monologue based on her experiences during the outbreak of COVID-19 which can be found on Vimeo here.

She grew up writing poetry and has recently started to write it again. She enjoys writing Haikus about nature and finds them very satisfying and rewarding.

She lives in Oxford, UK.

Liam Carson

Liam Carson is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir call mother a lonely field, shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize, and described as 'a short pearl of a book' by poet Tess Gallagher. He is also the director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival. His critical articles, essays and haiku have been published by the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Presence, South Wales Evening Post and others. He lives in Dublin with his partner, puppeteer Niamh Lawlor and their daughter, Eithne. 

 

Linda L Kruschke

Linda L. Kruschke writes candid memoir and fearless poetry, and delves into hard issues others tend to avoid. She is a recovering lawyer and sexual assault survivor, and she aspires to show women that God’s redemption and healing are just a story away. 

Readers can get a free copy of “Harness the Power of Your #MeToo Story: A Guided Poetry Journal”   or a free copy of “All Creation Sings,” a book of haiku and photos. Linda’s print poetry books, available on Amazon.com, are “Light in My Darkness: Poems of Hope for the Brokenhearted” and “Rejoice! Rejoice! Poems for the Holidays

Linda L Ludwig

Linda Lee Ludwig is retired and now able to spend her time in creative ventures. She has always been interested in the creative arts but on a part time basis. She married and raised three children and spent most of her energies loving and playing and working as an equal support role in their welfare.

She has written poems and songs for many years and has a love of drawing and ceramic painting. She has  had several haiku published in Haiku Foundation and Femku Magazine. She has just started to find ways to participate and share  poetry and illustrations. She belongs to several online groups and enjoys sharing poetry with friends.

Liran Kazmarek

Liran Kazmarek is a San Francisco native now living in Bangkok, Thailand. She has lived and worked in many countries around the world, and these experiences help to shape the types of imagery and sentiment she tries to capture when writing. Her twitter account is @HaikuBangkok

Lisbeth Ho

Lisbeth Ho whose complete name's Elisabeth Holidaya is now a housewife. She lives in Salatiga, a small town in Central Java Province, Indonesia. She's a tanka, haiku and  contemplative writing lover. She's a contributor in some haiku, tanka, free poems and contemplative publications. She's also an editor for Antologi Tanka Indonesia by Kata Ala Katak, Tanka Poetry Group, published in Januari 2019. 1st Tanka Anthology published in traditional style in Indonesia.

Lola Scollard

Lola Scollard lives in Kerry in the West of Ireland, where she worked as a teacher for many years.

She writes mostly poetry, but also some short stories.  She attended a haiku workshop a few years ago and has been inspired to write some since then. Her work has been published in local journals and on some online journals too.

Lori Becherer

Lori Becherer is a life-long resident of southern Illinois, residing on her childhood farm with her husband for over 38 years.   She is a certified medical coder employed full-time by BJC Healthcare in St. Louis.  Her hobbies include gardening, photography, art, journaling and the magic of haiku poetry.   She is a member of the Haiku Society of America, Mississippi Mud Daubers Haiku Group and the Heartland Women’s Writers Guild near her hometown.  Lori finds that life in the rural Midwest provides endless inspiration for haiku.  Her haiku have been published in frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, bottle rockets, Prune Juice, failed haiku, hedgerow, Chrysanthemum, cattails, and other publications. 

Lori Kiefer
Lori Kiefer was born in London, England of Irish and Greek parents. A semi-retired adult education teacher, she runs creative writing workshops for colleges and mental health charities. Lori has a passion for reading and writing haiku and her poems have been published in Lynx, The Interpreter’s House and Kind of Hurricane Press, among others. She has won awards in several London poetry competitions and has a Masters degree in Humanistic Psychology.
Lorraine A Padden

Lorraine A Padden has enjoyed careers in classical ballet, arts administration, criticism and advocacy that have earned her several national awards. She began writing haiku and related short-form poetry in 2018 and her work regularly appears in a variety of well-known journals and anthologies. She won Tricycle Magazine's Best of the Haiku Challenge in 2021 and received an honorable mention in the 2021 Rengay Award in honor of Garry Gay sponsored by the Haiku Society of America.

Lorraine Carey

Lorraine Carey’s an Irish poet. Her work is widely anthologised, published online and in print journals. Publications include Poetry Ireland Review, Eunoia Review, One, The Rising Phoenix Review, Constellate, Foxglove, Prole, Porridge, The High Window, The Honest Ulsterman and Poetry Birmingham among others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been placed and shortlisted in several competitions. She has published haiku and haibun in haikuniverse, haiku in the workplace, Under the Basho, Cold Moon, seashores, The Haibun Journal, CHO and failed haiku. Her poems have been broadcast on local and national radio. Her debut collection is From Doll House Windows (Revival Press)

Lovette Carter

Lovette Carter is a travelling and homecare pediatric nurse for fragile children. 

She began experiencing the total joy of writing haiku and related genre after learning haiku is not all about 5-7-5 as she once believed. However, what she learned was- modern day haiku is just as challenging but more likeable. And it continues.

Lovette has an interest in trees as much as birds. She loves  days when nature walks, hiking or fishing comes into play. She particularly cherishes those early mornings, resting outdoors with her African Grey while drinking coffee and listening to songbirds. It is being in the mist of Nature, where many of her haiku has taken shape. 

She has an interest in publishing children's books, but wants to incorporate haiku throughout each story.

Lucie Payne

Lucie Payne is a retired Librarian and has spent the past 25 years encouraging others to write. She is now taking up this advice and writing as much as she can. 

Luisa Santoro

Born in  Sicily, Luisa Santoro resides in Rome (Italy), where she works as a government officer, dedicated first to employees' education and professional development and now to international relations.

She started writing haiku 10 years ago,  both classical and vanguard, and is a member of the Haiku Foundation and United Haiku & Tanka Society.

Her haiku have been published online and in print journals and collections: Asahi Haikuist Network,  Cattails, The Haiku Foundation, World Haiku Review, Weekly Journal of Associazione Italiana Haiku, 8th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum, Haiku Universe; “Il mio Mandala” Haiku Collection, Cascina Macondo; -“Le figure del pensiero”, Haiku Collection, Premio Nazionale di Filosofia 2016; “Tra Meridiani e Paralleli”, Haiku Collection - Fusibilia.

Awards and other Honors:

The Haiku Foundation Monthly Kukai — July 2020, second place.

World Haiku Review January 2017, section Vanguard Haiku: Honorable Mention.

NASA contest "Going to Mars with Maven" 2013: Third place.

M Daneva

A Bulgarian-born Canadian national, M. Daneva lives and works in the Netherlands. She is a scholar, in the Computer Science Department at the University of Twente. She enjoys working across cultures and is passionate about languages and literature. After a decades-long hiatus, in May 2020 she returned to writing short poems, and haiku in particular. Her works have been featured in Frogpond, Failed Haiku and Haiku Today (Haiku Heute, in German).  She is a member of the German Haiku Society. Maya is also a lover of architecture photography and travel.

M Kelly Peach

M. Kelly Peach is a husband, father of four adult children and grandfather of three grandsons. He enjoys reading, writing, collecting books, baking, and camping. He’s been a taco fryer, dishwasher, cook, library aide, maintenance helper, teacher, workforce development professional, supervisor, and, for the State of Michigan, a Project Zero Coordinator, Eligibility Specialist, and Community Resource Coordinator.  He has works published or appearing in various venues including (but not limited to): Punchnel’s, Alternate Hilarities I-III, Mad Scientist Journal, Summer Issue 2014, Entropy, Woods-N-Water News, Inverted Syntax, Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, Cheapjack Pulp, Unsung Stories, Woods Reader, In Medias Res: Stories of the In-Between, and Bloody Red Nose: Fifteen Fears of a Clown.

m shane pruett

Shane lives in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon on the west coast of the United States.

He is a biologist who has transitioned to data research analyst for the State of Oregon maintaining and managing the state data on abuse of vulnerable individuals. These days he works to provide data for those who protecting Oregon’s most vulnerable people. 

His hobbies include bird watching, baking and playing guitar and writing about all of those things. He loves birdsong, his daughter, good music, potatoes, and experiencing the small moments in a big world.

Maggie Roycraft

Discovering haiku was a “Where have you been all my life?“ experience for Maggie Roycraft, who finds her greatest pleasure in nature and animals, and in observing and learning. 

Maggie has been writing Haiku for about four years,   Currently she is a member of the Haiku Society of America, and actively participates in the Haiku Poets of the Garden State. She’s a long-time member of Poets Corner, a writing group of Women Who Write and is the former editor of Writers Notes.  

Maggie has worked as a social worker, editor, and English as a second language teacher with some time out in between to study psychology and filmmaking.

Máire Morrissey-Cummins

Máire Morrissey-Cummins lives in the Garden of Ireland. She loves nature, her garden, her cat Athena, paints watercolours daily, her meditation. She writes a little, likes to go birdwatching at the weekends with her husband, spend time with girlfriends and travel. Retirement is a glorious time of discovery. Life continues to be an exploration, a search for a greater understanding of the world we inhabit and people we meet.

Marc Brimble

Marc Brimble started writing poetry in January 2021 after being quarantined at home due to COVID 19. He fell in love with haiku after reading some of the old Japanese masters, while researching about different types of poetry. In his free time he likes to drink tea.

Margaret Dornaus

Margaret Dornaus holds an MFA in the translation of poetry from the University of Arkansas. She recently had the privilege of editing and publishing a pandemic-themed anthology—behind the mask: haiku in the time of Covid-19—through her small literary press, Singing Moon. Her first book of poetry, Prayer for the Dead: Collected Haibun & Tanka Prose, received a 2017 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America, and she received a 2020 Best of the Net nomination from MacQueen’s Quinterly for her haibun “Late-Night Inventory.” Her poems appear frequently in national and international anthologies and journals, including Contemporary Haibun Online; Global Poemic; Journeys 2015: An Anthology of International Haibun; Red Earth Review; The Ekphrastic Review; The Lindenwood Review; and The Red River Book of Haibun.

Margaret Tau

Born and raised in rural Delaware, Margaret Tau is a retired medical editor who now lives in North Carolina. Her observation of the natural world in the woods of her Delaware home is her inspiration for much of her writing.  She began experimenting with Japanese short form poetry following her retirement, and her work has been published in Frogpond, Under the Basho, Poetry Quarterly, Better Than Starbucks, and Poetry Pea, among others.  Margaret was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2021 Haiku Society of America’s Harold G. Henderson Haiku competition.  Her haiku was selected by the 2021 Golden Triangle Haiku contest and was displayed in the Washington, DC business district.  As Margaret realizes her lifelong dream of writing poetry, she currently serves on the board of Nexus Poets in New Bern, North Carolina. 

Mariangela Canzi

Italian mother tongue, Mariangela Canzi works as a translator. The English language is her great passion.

Mariangela started writing haiku in English about two years ago. It was a challenge at first, it is now a real pleasure. 

Some of her haiku have been published in "Modern Haiku", "Haiku Canada", "Presence" and "The Bloo Outlier Journal". 

Mariel Herbert

Mariel Herbert's poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, horror senryu journal, Liminality, Poetry Pea Journal and Scifaikuest. She lives in California with one high-maintenance dog and hundreds of low-maintenance books. More of her writing can be found online

Mariela Coromoto

Mariela Coromoto was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She moved to Minneapolis, USA to pursue a Masters of Science degree.

She now lives in The Netherlands writing haiku and teaching beginning piano lessons to children. 

Her first official haiku was published on the weekly Japanese newspaper, Shukan New York Seikatsu.

You can read more about her on the Haiku Foundation.

Marilyn Ashbaugh

Marilyn Ashbaugh is a poet, nature photographer and organic gardener.  She is widely published in journals and anthologies featuring Japanese short-form poetry  including haibun, haiga, rengay, tanka, and haiku.  

Marilyn Ward

Marilyn Ward lives in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK. She has been writing haiku for four years, 

Marilyn's  haiku and Senryu have been published in @FreshoutMag, Cattails, Plumtree tavern, Whispers in the wind, Frogpond, Haiku universe, Poetry Pea and Hedgerow. 

Often she uses the pen name Mal ward. 

Mark Farrar

Mark Farrar is a Brit who moved to the USA in 2005 for love.

While he has worked in and around information technology and computers since 1979, he discovered a passion for writing (mainly modern love poetry and flash fiction, as well as, of course, haiku) while online-dating the American lady who would become his wife in 2005. (She was the inspiration for the thousands of love poems that he created for her over the course of a few years.)

Although he has many ideas for novels and stories, he finds haiku particularly fascinating because the ultra-compact format forces you to focus on the essence of the world around us, and our experiences of that world, and as such, haiku becomes a tool for introspection too.

Much of his work has been self-published on Amazon under a variety of names, including his own, and he also creates a new haiku each day on his Medium publication, 17 Onji.

You may also be interested in reading an article he wrote about haiku.

Mark Gilbert

Mark Gilbert, formerly a scientist, lives in the UK. He writes tanka, haibun, haiga and senryu.

You can find out more details about him on The Haiku Foundation.

Martin Cohen

Martin Cohen was born in the South Bronx somewhere on Simpson Street, went to a Yeshiva at the Southern Tip of Manhattan on East Broadway and Canal Street, and then lived in the South of Brooklyn, the South of Long Island, The Southern Tier of Upstate New York, and finally South Jersey in Egg Harbor.

 

Mary Harwell Sayler

Mary Harwell Sayler writes in all genres and owns the Poetry Editor & Poetry blog among others. Her many books include everything from Life-Health encyclopedias to the Book of Bible prayers and novels to books of poetry, the latest of which is A Gathering of Poems, collected from her previously published works. She’s also active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Tumblr.

Matthew Weigelt

Matthew Weigelt is an author and speaker. His book, The Adventures of the Mysterious Matt Barnes, is based on a unique college roommate who held tea parties. The second book in the series will be released in late 2020. He speaks about the different aspects of the writing process. His love of writing began due to summertime boredom. These days, he prefers writing on his phone at a busy fast food joint, watching all the diverse customers. He lives in Indiana with his wife and two boys. Read more about him at MatthewWeigelt.com and his books ReadBetweenThePages.com

 

 

Matt Snyder

Matt Snyder from Indiana to DC, and interesting places along the way. Avid reader of haiku, senryu, and haibun -- took up the pen in recent years. Spends his moments planting things, feeding the cats, reading widely, running, working, and listening to and playing folk, bluegrass, and related genres. Seeking like-minded music-makers in the DC area.

Maureen Lanagan Haggerty

Maureen Lanagan Haggerty finds inspiration for her poetry in the wonders of nature’s ways and the changing of the seasons, memories of childhood and family, and Irish country life. Her book of poetry, Deeply Home, reflects these themes. She often meets with two groups of writers: Poets’ Corner and the Haiku Poets of the Garden State. Her writing has been published in Off the Coast, EXIT 13, The Tower Poets, and other journals; her haiku has appeared in the Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology since 2015. Maureen is a career counselor at a community college in New Jersey, U.S.A.

Megan Herlaar

Megan Herlaar is a financial planner transitioning to becoming a writer. She lives on beautiful Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada. Always a lover of literature, life intervened and distracted her from writing while she and her husband raised their three children. In semi-retirement she took an online writing course that grew into a myriad of writing groups, one of which was Haiku. Exploring the simple complexity of Japanese poetry led her to Poetry Pea. Megan is busy writing a novel and on walks between writing sessions, Haiku arrive unbidden and are gratefully received.

You can find her on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Meik Blöttenberger

Meik Blöttenberger was born in Baltimore to German immigrant parents. His haiku have been published in Acorn, Frogpond, Heliosparrow Journal, The Heron's Nest, is/let, and Modern Haiku. His haiku have won numerous awards and he was selected as an emerging voice in A New Resonance 10, which was edited by Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts. A collection of his poetry entitled Morsels of Manna was published by Mellen Press.

Melissa Patterson

Melissa Patterson is a nanny by trade and loves to write haiku. She has been writing haiku for over ten years and has been published a few times to her excitement. She loves haiku because it is like a snapshot of a moment like a photograph. As a hobby she enjoys taking photos of her family and nature.

Michael Baribeau

Michael Baribeau  of Michigan. Only in his later years did he discover he didn't hate all poems, only pretentious ones. Ever since then he's found profound insight and art in poetry. He mostly reads but occasionally composes for fun.

Michael Dudley

Michael Dudley  was born in downtown Toronto and reared in the Greater Toronto Area.  For 35 years he lived and worked in rural Southwestern Ontario.  From June 2018 - May 2020 he continuously traveled, and he now resides in Stratford, Ontario. Haiku has been his poetry of choice for over forty years.  

He is the father of three and the author of numerous poetry volumes, including pilgrimage, a revised and expanded volume of selected haiku, published by Red Moon Press in 2017.

Michael Feil

Michael Feil grew up in small town Iowa in the post war auto boom, the baby boom.  Graduating from high school he was faced military conscripture during the Vietnam Conflict, he chose the US Navy.  Michael graduated with a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute.  He has written plays, fiction, poetry and non-fiction over the years. Michael attended the New York University Summer Writer’s Conference, he attended the Rutgers Camden Writer’s Conference, and the Upaya Zen Center Haiku Workshop. 

Michael lives with his wife, and a lovable pit bull in suburban Philadelphia.

Books Published: Camping In A Middle Class Pasture selected poems 1971-1999, 108 pps. Authors House, 2003.

Short Stories published: Last Night with Nora, High Plains Register, forthcoming Fall 2020.

Fiction Award: Couples, Families Friends and Naught, a short story collection was a Finalist for The Black Lawrence Press Best Fiction Prize 2018.

Play Produced: Technicians of the Sacred, based on Jerome Rothenberg’s poetry volume, Synthaxis Theatre Company 1974.

 

Michael Hough

Michael Hough was born in 1948. He began writing poems and songs at the age of 8 and continued to study his craft his whole life.

His favored poetic styles are song lyrics, sonnets, blank verse, free verse, Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and narrative poems.

Michael Kitchen

Michael Kitchen is originally from Plymouth, Michigan and currently resides in Chesterfield Township, Michigan.  He has been writing since the early 1980's, however only the last couple years has he focused on haiku and senryu.  His haiku and senryu has been published in frogpond and failed haiku.  A complete list of his published work can be found on his website, along with his Detroit City FC Historical Digital Scrapbook containing individual game photos and videos of the team's home (and numerous away) matches since the team's inaugural game in May, 2012.  He also has a Facebook page titled Peanut Ledge Cafe, which is a collection of photos and adventures at the window ledge of his home where he feeds squirrels.  By day, he practices law as a court-appointed appellate criminal defense attorney in Michigan.  He enjoys Detroit City FC soccer, collecting and using typewriters, and spin classes on a stationary bike.

Michael Smeer (Mikō)

Michael Smeer (Mikō) made his first attempts at haiku in 1993 but started focusing on haiku and senryu in 2012. He is the founder of My Haiku Pond & MHP Academy (2015); a blog and workgroup focused on English-language haiku and -related forms, art, & culture. He doesn't submit very often but has been published in several haiku & senryu journals over the past years. Most recently; publ. in The Blo͞o Outlier Journal (issue 1) and First Prize, AHS - Summer Solstice Haiga Contest: Non-Seasonal (Dec.2020).

Mike Gallagher

Mike Gallagher is an Irish poet and editor. His prose, poetry and haiku have been published throughout Europe, America, Australia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Japan, Canada and Mexico. His writing has been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Croatian, German, Italian, Serbian and Chinese.

He won the Michael Hartnett Viva Voce competition in 2010 and 2016, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in 2011 and won the Desmond O'Grady International Poetry Contest in 2012.

In 2018, he was placed in Listowel Writers Week and in 2019 he won the Westival Poetry Slam.

His poetry collection Stick on Stone is published by Revival Press.

Milan Rajkumar

Milan Rajkumar is a secondary school teacher, who teaches economics while writing haiku! He lives in Imphal, Manipur, a corner of North-Eastern India, bordering Myanmar, with his loving wife and two sons. He speaks a tibeto-burman language known as ‘meiteilon’. Writing is his passion since childhood. 

He came to know about haikai from a public library in his state. 

 

Mimi Ahern

The creative process has intrigued Mimi Ahern for over 50 years. Midlife, she returned to school to earn an interdisciplinary masters in Creativity at San Jose State University. Throughout her personal and professional life (as a teacher, designer, and staff developer) this interest in creativity has continued.

For the past decade, her creative energy has been focused on haiku. More interested in process than product, she does manage to finish some haiku, submit them for publication, and enjoy seeing them in journals (Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Geppo, Aurorean, Mariposa, and Acorn) and in books (Haiku 2020; Wind Flowers, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2019; The Signature Haiku Anthology, Including Senryu and Tanka; Another Trip around the Sun, 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old.)

Currently Mimi is President of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and busy with the educational focus of its 45th Anniversary year which will include a book by Patricia Machmiller, dojin, and video clips of her teaching at YTHS workshops. In November of 2020 the clips will be available on YTHS’s Website

Minal Sarosh

Minal Sarosh is an awarded Indian English poet and novelist. Her first poetry book Mitosis and Other Poems, was published by Writers Workshop (1992) Kolkata. Her first novel Soil for My Roots was published by LiFi Publications, New Delhi, 2015.

She has won awards at the All India Poetry Competition 2005, of The Poetry Society (India) Delhi (Commendation Prize); SMS Poetry Competition 2007 & 2008 Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai (Third Prize) among others.

For her haiku poems she has won The Akita International University President’s Award, Japan, 2018 ( First  Prize ) & 2019 (First Prize - Joint Winner ).

Recently her haiku was among the haiku selected as the Judges’ favourites in the Golden Haiku Poetry Contest 2020, USA, and was displayed on a street sign in the Golden Triangle Washington DC neighbourhood.

Her poems have been published in prestigious online and print journals and anthologies like  These My Words The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry (2012), among others.

Her short form poetry like haiku, senryu, and tanka have been published in Muse India, World Haiku Review, Prune Juice --Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haiban & Haiga, Failed Haiku, The Asahi Shimbun, Wales Haiku Journal and in haiku anthologies like the FIRST Katha ebook of haiku, haiban, senryu and tanka and Naad Anunaad anthology of contemporary world haiku, 2016, among others. 

Minal lives in Ahmedabad, India.

Mirela Brăilean
Mirela Brăilean lives in Iași, România. She is an expert in the preservation of cultural heritage, also a member of the Romanian and French Haiku Society She discovered poems of Japanese inspiration about four years ago. She competed in her country where she won awards in competitions such as RO Foto Haiku, Lyrical flashes Senryu, Romanian Haiku, Romanian Kukai, Foto Haiga, Co-authored at“Prispa cu greieri” (Porch Crickets) and her debut book: “Loping over the hills.” with a few dozen haiku poems since 2018. She's preparing a second book, but this is yet to be published. Her Japanese short-form poetry is published in numerous haiku journals, several online magazines, and books. She was selected to the European Top 100 most creative haiku authors in 2020 and 2021. She has been nominated for Touchstone Award 2021.
Moumita Ghosh

Moumita Ghosh, aka Mou G is a poetess and short story writer. She had done her M.E in Power Engg. and is currently doing her research on Hybrid Energy Storage System (renewable energy sources based). It will broaden the scope of Electric Vehicles in diesel/ combustion engine driven world.

She has been working within the writing world for more than five years. A dark moment and its slideway into spiritual world, inspired her to work on writing as a profession. She won many badges and contests at an international writing platform, WritersCafe. Poetry is at the centre of her writing, she loves to write short poems (haiku, senryu, haibun etc) both in conventional and contemporary style. She is a lover of  nature, animals and cultural aesthetic beauty. Sometimes, she takes photos of nature and artistry. In future, she wants to make a documentary on spiritual realm.

Currently, she is working on her poetry book.

Nadejda Kostadinova

Nadejda Kostadinova is from Sofia in Bulgaria. Having worked in IT she is a now stay-at-home mom and enjoying developing her creative side.

She discovered the beautiful magic of haiku in a haiku workshop.

In January 2019 she received honors in the 6th National December contest organized by the Bulgarian Haiku association. In February she participated in the haiku challenge NaHaiWriMo in Bulgarian and with this she got her first haiku published in a Bulgarian magazine for arts and literature.

Her first English success was in June 2019 in tinywords.com, and since then has had haiku and short poems published in Asahi Haikuist Network, FemkuMag, Hedgerow, The Bamboo Hut, Failed Haiku, Incense Dreams and the English Speaking Union of Japan - Haiku (ESUJ-H). 

Natalia Kuznetsova

Natalia Kuznetsova from Russia is an English language teacher, translator, poet.

She started to write haiku in English in 2007 and since then has participated in numerous competitions worldwide and has received various awards. Her haiku and senryu have been published in many countries in traditional and online publications.

She is included in The Haiku Foundation Registry and is on the list of "European Top Most Creative Haiku Authors" 2010-2019.

Neal Whitman

Neal Whitman lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, Elaine. They co-edited the 2021 Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members’ Anthology and were asked to co-edit the 2022 edition. Neal is the haiku editor for Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine which posts one new haiku every other Friday. He looks forward every October when its submission window is open for the month at which time he selects and schedules haiku for the following calendar year. 

Neelam Dadhwal

Ms. Neelam Dadhwal is a haiku poet from Chandigarh, India. Her work has been published in The Criterion, Literary Journal, Haiga Online, Daily Haiga, Muse India, Asahi Haikuist Network, Indian Review and others. She has penned two poetry books, Echoes and Footprints. 

Neena Singh

Neena Singh runs a non-profit working for quality interventions in health and education of economically underprivileged children in Chandigarh, India. After three decades of contributing to the banking industry, Neena devotes her time now to social work and penning poetry. Her haiku have appeared in online journals and magazines viz. Asahi Haikuist Network, The Haiku Foundation's blog Troutswirl, Haikuniverse, Miriam's Well, Akita International Haiku Network and Asahi Shimbun.

She is the author of "Whispers of the Soul — The Journey Within" a book of poetry showcasing her passion for nature and life and "One Breath Poetry — a journal of haiku, senryu & tanka". 

Neena has received many awards for her contribution in banking, management and social work. 

 

She is active on Facebook and has created a Fb group soul2soul which has 1500 members where we run themes on diverse topics (spiritual, philosophical and contemporary) and members share their thoughts. The best posts are then taken to a Fb Page "Best of soul2soul" which is in the public domain. 

Neera Kashyap

Neera Kashyap has had a career in environmental and health journalism with specialisation in social and health communications. As an author, she has published a book of short stories for young adults (‘Daring to Dream’, Rupa & Co.) and contributed to five prize-winning anthologies of children’s literature (Children’s Book Trust). As a writer of short fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews, her work has appeared in international journals published in USA, UK, Singapore, Pakistan and India. Her poetry has appeared in Verse Virtual (USA); ‘Poetica’, Clarendon Publications & The Poet (UK); Kitaab (Singapore) and in several Indian publications including Mountain Path, Kritya, Narrow Road, The Literary Yard, Erothanatos and in ‘Hibiscus’, an anthology on poems that heal and empower. She lives with her family in Delhi.

Nika

Nika, AKA Jim Force, Ph. D. is a retired educator.  His career focus and interests were outdoor and experiential education. Jim writes under the pen name, Nika. He is a member of Haiku Canada and the Haiku Society of America. His interests include creating photo-haiku and writing collaborative rengay with the Heron’s Quill as well as writing haiku. Jim’s work has been widely published in journals and anthologies both in North America and abroad. He has published two chapbooks: frogs singing (1993) and snail my friend (2015). Jim lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his wife Colleen. Much of their time is spent with grandkids, walking their dog and for Jim exploring the natural world with camera in hand.

If you'd like to get in touch with Jim regarding the haiku postcards here's his email: jforce@telus.net

Oliver Leon Porter

Oliver Leon Porter (he/him or they/them) is an award-winning teacher and journalist. He is queer and trans.  He is also a writer, tarot reader, and artist. His work has appeared in The Link newspaper; Spectra, Concordia’s queer student magazine; AskMen.Com; Eternal Haunted Summer, and Vision newspaper in Chateauguay, his hometown. He won the 2013 John H. McDonald journalist’s award for excellence in opinion writing. In 2014, he, Laura Ellyn, and others published a comic book about the 2012 Quebec student strike called En Greve through Friesen Press. In 2019, he won the LCI Education award for excellence in pedagogy. He will appear in Frogpond in the fall and  have multiple poems published in an upcoming pagan anthology with the Troth, an American heathen organization. When teaching or writing, he keeps a cup of tea nearby. In fact, he is drinking one right now. You can find his complete list of works on his website.

Owolabi Awwal Olanrewaju
Owolabi Awwal Olanrewaju is a Nigerian poet who put his thoughts into black and white. A lover of art and a possessor of a very good heart. 
P H Fischer

P. H. Fischer lives, works, and plays in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people—the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. He conceives many of his poems while out on long walks exploring the beautiful environs of the west coast. Having dabbled in haiku for several years, he recently committed to being more intentional about writing and sharing his poetry. He’s grateful for publication in Haiku Pea Podcast and Poetry Pea Journal, Failed Haiku, The Cicada's Cry, Haiku Dialogue, Hedgerow and the Asahi Haikuist Network.

Pam Joy

Pam Joy lives in Southeast Alaska in the United States. She wrote her first haiku on the 17th of April, 2020 to celebrate National Haiku Day with a goal to write (at least) one haiku a day. She also creates art and sculpture from marine debris and other  discarded items.

Her work has appeared in Alaska Women Speak, Poetry Pea Journal, and Haiku Pea Podcast.

 

Paul Callus

Paul Callus was born in Ħal Safi, Malta. He is a retired teacher, and has been active in the literary field for around 50 years. He writes poetry, short stories, and lyrics for songs, mostly in English and Maltese. His work has been published in various anthologies, journals and online sites. He has published 3 books (Ħal Safi, Marina, Aħfirli Natasha) and an ebook (Meander). He is also a translator and proof-reader. Apart from writing, his main hobbies are reading, painting, swimming and travelling.

Paul Engel

Paul Engel (his mother wanted to name him Elvis – his father didn’t) was born in Chicago, IL, and now lives in Woodridge, IL, a suburb of Chicago, where he grew up. He is happily married to his high school sweetheart and the father of 5 amazing people and the grandfather of 2 geniuses.

He works in a cubicle.

Ever since reading Issa for the first time in college (BA English) oh those many years ago, he’s been addicted to reading and writing haiku and senryu. There are worse addictions.

He thinks he’s been published a few times and won something once, but Twitter is sufficient to satisfy his current publishing cravings. (He’s too lazy to submit anything anyway anymore and can’t handle rejection either.) He doesn’t have a website (maybe someday), but you can follow him on twitter. 

Paula J Lambert

Paula J. Lambert is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. She has received grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Author of several collections of poetry, much of her work focuses on the anatomy of birds: digging deep into their bones, beaks, and feathers has led her to issues both deeply personal and broadly political. Her most recent collection of poetry How to See the World, is available from Bottom Dog Press. A new collection, The Ghost of Every Feathered Thing, will be published by FutureCycle Press in January of 2022. Learn more at paulajlambert.com.

Pearl

Pearl lives in Australia where she is a writer and photographer. Her hobbies include reading, painting and photography.

Peter Adair

Peter Adair writes in various poetic forms, from haiku to sestinas.  His poems have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Bangor Literary Journal, Hedgerow, The Haiku Foundation, Failed Haiku and other journals and anthologies.  In 2016 he won the Funeral Services Northern Ireland Poetry Competition.  Two poems were shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2018.  A poem is forthcoming in Eyewear’s anthology The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019/20 (for poets who have not published a collection).  Friends have urged him to try to publish a late first collection but, but…He lives in Bangor, Co Down.

Poga Humayun Dundiwala

Poga Humayun Dundiwala comes from Bangladeshi.

Polona Oblak

Polona Oblak thinks 42 might indeed be the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, because at that age she discovered haiku and related forms. Since then she has been widely published, appeared in anthologies, won awards, including the Touchstone Individual Poem Award, and generally enjoyed being part of the worldwide haiku community. Like most, she gets frustrated with rejections but after some consideration usually acknowledges the editors had a point. She currently lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Peter Draper

Peter Draper lives in the East Riding of Yorkshire in a village called South Cave, near Hull.

He works at the University of Hull as Professor of Nursing Education, and leads the Teaching Excellence Academy.  Additionally he is a part-time priest in his local church.

Peter has been writing poetry for a few years.  Apart from poetry, the other great love in his life is competitive archery.

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Pravat Kumar Padhy is from Odisha, India. He holds Masters in Science and Technology and a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad. 

 His Japanese short form of poetry has appeared in numerous publications including The Mainichi Daily News, The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku,  Chrysanthemum, Under the Basho, Acorn, Presence, Frogpond, Failed Haiku, Akitsu Quarterly, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Wales Haiku Journal and Red Moon Anthology.