CONTRIBUTORS
Barry
Allen, a retired teacher and learning specialist, teaches
photography, co-creates and teaches haiga with Nika, and makes intimate
images to inspire people to explore and “see” the world around them.
Kelly Sauvage Angel is the author of
Om Namah…, and many articles, short stories,
and essays. Her haiku have appeared in Modern Haiku,
Frogpond,
Heron’s Nest,
Sonic Boom,
Bottle Rockets,
is/let and
Otata.
Hifsa Ashraf
is from Pakistan. She is an award-winning poet, story writer, and
co-editor of Haiku Commentary blog. Her haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga,
cherita, and free verse poems have been published in various
international poetry journals and magazines. She is currently working
on her first tanka book based on the real stories of refugees.
Joanna Ashwell writes from the North East of England. A member of haiku and tanka organisations, she has published work in Blithe Spirit, Stardust, Ribbons, Eucalpt, Frogpond, Haiku Canada, and Gusts.
Edward Baranosky is a poet and artist residing in Toronto
Canada. He has published 30 chapbooks of poetry since 1971, and conducted renga
seminar intensives for the Canadian Authors Association.
Danny P. Barbare resides in the Upstate of the Carolinas. His poems have
recently appeared in Perceptions, Hedge Apple, and North Dakota Review.
He attended Greenville Technical College where his poetry won The Jim
Gitting's Award; some of his poems have been nominated for Best of Net by
Assisi Online Journal. He lives in Greenville, SC.
Gary Barwin is the author of (among many others) Yiddish for Pirates,
winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour, the Canadian Jewish Literary
Award, and finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor
General’s Award. Forthcoming in 2019: For it is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems (Wolsak and Wynn) and A Cemetery for Holes (Gordon Hill), collaborative poetry with Tom Prime.
Maxianne Berger writes haiku and tanka from Montreal. She is author of four poetry books and has co-edited five anthologies in those forms.
Ronna Bloom's most recent book of poetry is The More (Pedlar
Press, 2017.) She works collaboratively with artists, doctors,
spiritual leaders, and architects, and offers workshops and poetry
prescriptions wherever there is need. She is currently Poet in Community
at U of T and Poet in Residence at Sinai Health.
Ingrid Bruck lives in Amish country in Pennsylvania USA across
the street from an Amish farm, where work horses pull the plows and
retired racehorses pull carriages. Since retiring as a library director,
she dedicates herself to writing short forms and short poems.
Helen Buckingham lives in Wells, England. Her short-form verse collections include water on the moon (Original Plus Press, 2010) and sanguinella (Red Moon Press, 2017), both of which were shortlisted for the Touchstone Book Award.
Suzanne Buffam can be found online at suzannebuffam.com
Michael e. Casteels is the author of the poetry collection The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses (Invisible Publishing, 2016). He lives in Kingston, where he runs Puddles of Sky Press.
| Kanchan Chatterjee is a haijin from Jamshedpur, a small industrial town in Jharkhand, India. His works have appeared in Japan's national TV program, 'NHK Haiku Masters;' his awards include second prize in 'The Mainichi' annual English haiku competition and honorable mention in the 'Ito en Oi Ocha' contest. |
Glenn Crockett studied art, made art, started making frames for the art, now is a woodworker. He lives in northern Pennsylvania.
Anne Curran lives in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Jan Conn is a poet and entomologist, and a member of Yoko's Dogs. Tomorrow's Bright White Light is her most recent book.
Gustavo Escobedo is a photographer, media arts teacher and translator who lives in a black and pink house in Toronto with his wife, two children and one ungrateful cat.
Samuel T. Franklin is the author of two books of poetry: Bright Soil,
Dark Sun (2019) and The God of Happiness (2016). He resides in
Bloomington, Indiana, where he enjoys making useful things out of wood
scraps and losing staring contests
to his cats. He can be found at https://samueltfranklin.com/.
Marco Fraticelli has been writing haiku for over forty years. His collection Drifting (2013) is now in its third printing. A Thousand Years will be published in 2018.
Born in Virovitica, Croatia, 1982, Goran Gatalica
holds degrees in physics and chemistry from the University of Zagreb. He has
published poetry, haiku, and prose in literary magazines, journals, and
anthologies. He is a member of the Croatian Writers’ Association.
LeRoy Gorman lives
in Napanee, Ontario. His poetry, much of it minimalist and visual, has
appeared in publications and exhibitions worldwide. His most recent book
is
goodwill galaxy hunting
(Urban Farmhouse Press).
Laurie Greer lives and writes in Washington, D.C. Her haiku have been published in journals and blogs including Acorn, Frog Pond, The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, and Wales Haiku.
Grix (they/them) is an award-winning Pushcart-nominated writer and visual
artist whose work focuses on disability, gender, trauma, and systems
from a neurodiverse perspective. Grix is the Founder and EIC for Human/Kind Journal and Human/Kind Press, and an Associate Editor at both Sonic Boom and Yavanika Press. Twitter @metagrix.
Phil Hall's work has been widely published and recognized by appreciative readers and awards juries across the country and beyond. He writes from the shore above Otty Lake and elsewhere.
Maureen Scott Harris discovered haiku in the early 1960s, when she was 17, and found her sense of poetry illuminated by them.
Kyle Hemmings has work in Sonic Boom, Bones, is/let, Tiny Spoons and
elsewhere. His latest collection of text and art is Amnesiacs of Summer
published by Yavanika Press. Kyle loves street photography, 50s sci-fi
films, and 60s garage bands that never made the
charts.
Helen Herr is a retired United Church of Canada clergy. She enjoys all forms of writing, reading, and painting. Her first full length poetry memoir is “Stones Will
Shout,” lyrical verse together with short form verses within images of her soapstone sculptures. She lives
with her husband in Watrous, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Roberta Beach Jacobson (http://www.RobertaJacobson.
David J. Kelly writes from Dublin.
Deborah P Kolodji has published over 1000 haiku. Her first full length book of haiku and
senryu, highway of sleeping towns,
received a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation.
Lavana Kray
is from Iasi, Romania. She is passionate about photography and poetry
and has won several awards, including the status of Master Haiga Artist,
from the World Haiku Association. Her work has been published in many
print and online journals. She is author of two books (photo-haiku and
photo-tanka) and is haiga editor for the UHTS journal Cattails. Visit her blog at photohaikuforyou.blogspot.ro.
David G. Lanoue is
a Professor of English at Xavier University in Louisiana and co-founder
of the New Orleans Haiku Society. His recent books include Issa’s Best (a collection of favorite haiku by Issa), Issa and Being Human (a critical book), and Write like Issa (a how-to book). He maintains The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa website, for which he has translated 10,000 haiku.
Kateri Lanthier is the author of Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011) and Siren (Vehicule, 2017). She is an Adjunct Professor in the M.A. in Creative Writing, University of Toronto.
Ron. Lavalette lives on Vermont’s Canadian
border. He has been widely published in both print and pixel forms. His
first chapbook, Fallen Away,
is now available from Finishing Line Press, and a sample of his work
can be found at EGGS OVER TOKYO
Mile Lisica has published three collections of poetry and one of haiku, Trot with the Stars, with translations into Russian, English, Italian and German. Lisica lives in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
D.A. Lockhart is the author of Devil in the Woods (Brick Books, 2019)
and Breaking Right (Porcupine's Quill, 2020). His work has appeared
widely throughout Turtle Island including Best Canadian Poetry 2019, the
Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, TriQuarterly, The Fiddlehead, and Belt. He
is pùkuwànkoamimëns of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Lockhart
currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong where he is the publisher at Urban
Farmhouse Press.
Paweł Markiewicz, thinker and poet from Poland, loves haiku in three languages. He has published haiku in Japan, India, USA, Germany and Austria.
Leslie McKay is an Aotearoa/New Zealand poet and writing
teacher. She writes haiku, short forms and short poems. In 2015, she won
the Caselberg International Prize. Her poetry has been published in
anthologies and online. She lives in a beech forest. A wild falcon
named Arvo visits her there each winter.
Robin McLachlen is co-host of Literary Landscape on CKCU. He lives in Kanata, Ontario with his wife and 2 children.
Emiko Miyashati is a haiku poet writing in both Japanese and English since 1993. A member of the Association of Haiku Poets (Japan) and Haiku Canada. She is a director of JAL Foundation which has held the World Children’s Haiku Contest since 1990. She lives in Tokyo.
Michael Morell lives and writes in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, USA.
His poems appear internationally in print and online journals.
Michael's new collection of haiku and senryu, leaf raking, will be released in August 2019. In 2017 he earned a Master's degree in Applied Meditation Studies.
Erín Moure’s latest works (2019) are a translation of Lupe Gómez, Camouflage (Circumference Books), a co-traduction with Roman Ivashkiv of Yuri Izdryk, Smokes (Lost Horse Press), and her own The Elements (House of Anansi).
kjmunro lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she serves as Membership Secretary for Haiku Canada, and is active in the Yukon Writers' Collective Ink. Founder and facilitator of the monthly discussion group 'solstice haiku', she has published two leaflets with Leaf Press and is co-editor of Body of Evidence: a collection of killer 'ku - an anthology of crime-related haiku with catkin press.
Nika (Jim Force) is a retired educator. His haiku have been widely published in journals and anthologies both in North America and abroad.
Nancy Nitrio resides in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2007 her work has appeared in a wide variety of online and print journals and anthologies. Her haiku has been published in Snapshot Press Calendar 2009, 2018 and the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2010, 2013, 2017. She is the author of a small book of haiku, A Soft Flutter.
Susan Olding’s essays are collected in Pathologies: A Life in Essays and the forthcoming Big Reader. Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies.
Pearl Pirie nests in the Gatineau Hills, venturing out to take part in KaDo haiku jaunts, host the radio show Literary Landscapes on CKCU, and bask in poetry at the Tree Reading Series.
Kenneth Pobo has a new book out from Clare Songbirds Publishing House called The Antlantis Hit Parade. Forthcoming from Duck Lake Books is Dindi Expecting Snow.
Claudia Coutu Radmore writes and edits lyric and Japanese poetry as well as running catkin press and Tree Press.
Yves Saint-Pierre recently retired from the Chair of the English Department at John Abbott College. Lifetime, he has shot two bears, one, long ago, for bounty and one more recently in self-defense. But often he reads and sometimes he plays golf.
Brenda Schmidt is a naturalist and visual artist living in Creighton, a mining town on the Canadian Shield in northern Saskatchewan. Her sixth book is Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road from Thistledown Press (2018). She served as the seventh Saskatchewan Poet Laureate.
Shloka Shankar is a writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee, her poems and artwork are forthcoming in talking about strawberries all of the time, NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress, 2020), Contemporary Haibun Online, Acorn, and Kissing Dynamite among others. Shloka is the founding editor of Sonic Boom, its imprint Yavanika Press, and is Senior Editor at Human/Kind Journal. Twitter @shloks89.
David F. Shultz writes poetry and short fiction from Toronto, ON, where he is lead editor at tdotSpec. His works have appeared in many venues, including Abyss & Apex and Dreams & Nightmares. Visit his webpage davidfshultz.com.
John Steffler is a poet, novelist, and essayist living in rural Ontario. Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language, & Wilderness was published by University of Regina Press in 2019.
Sandra Stephenson lives in Quebec, writes haiku reviews and poetry, and manages a writers' residence in Muskoka called Trickledown House.
D.S. Stymeist’s debut collection, The Bone Weir (Frontenac, 2016), was a finalist for the CAA Award for Poetry. As president of VERSe Ottawa, he helps run VERSeFest, Ottawa’s annual international poetry festival.
Michelle Sullivan is a photographer based in New Zealand.
Gillian Sze is the author of Peeling Rambutan, Redrafting Winter, and most recently Panicle. She studied creative writing and literature and received a Ph.D. in Études anglaises from Université de Montréal.
Eileen R. Tabios’ recent books are a poetry collection, The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019 (Marsh Hawk Press), and short story collection, PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora (Paloma Press).
Rob Taylor is the author of three poetry collections, including The News (Gaspereau Press, 2016), a finalist for the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Rob is also the editor of What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation (Nightwood Editions, 2018) and guest editor of the 2019 edition of The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Biblioasis, 2019). He lives with his family in Port Moody, BC.
Elisa Theriana, from Bandung, Indonesia, is a computer programmer, haiku lover and photography enthusiast.
Yoko's Dogs (Jan Conn, Mary di Michele, Susan Gillis and Jane Munro) has been writing collaboratively since 2006, adapting Japanese linked forms: Basho meets Dada.
Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008- 17) and BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.