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Yaninska, Gergana Article Count: 22
Gergana Yaninska
Born 1960 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Living in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Gergana Yaninska works as a midwife. She writes haiku from several years and she has published haiku in "A Hundred Gourds", "Bones", "Cattails", "Frogpond", "Modern Haiku", "Ershik", "The Heron's Nest", "Mainichi Daily News" and haiga in "WHA Haiga Contest", "Cattails", "Daily Haiga" in 2015 and 2016.
Yin, Anna Article Count: 14
Anna Yin
Born 1970 in China.
Residing in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
website: http://annapoetry.com
Anna Yin is Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate with six poetry books. Anna won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTY Awards and the 2013 Professional Achievement Award from CPAC etc. Her poems have appeared on Arc Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio etc. She teaches Poetry Alive.
Young, Gideon Article Count: 82
Gideon Young
Gideon Young is a member of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, a Fellow for A+ Schools of North Carolina, a K-12 Literacy Specialist, and a stay-at-home dad. His debut haiku collection my hands full of light was published by Backbone Press (2021). His poetry is included in Best Spiritual Literature 2022 (Orison Books) and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Gideon is co-author of One Window’s Light: A Collection of Haiku, published by Unicorn Press, 2017, winner of the Haiku Society of America Merit Award for Best Anthology. Find recent and forthcoming work in Callaloo, Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Juxta 8, North Carolina Literary Review, Our State Magazine, and Pan Haiku Review. Winner of a 2023 Arts in Education Artist Residency Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, discover more at www.gideonyoung.com.