Padmasiri Jayathilaka

I am a retired Mathematics teacher of age 83 years old,from Sri Lanka.
I have a son and a daughter. My wife and myself live with our son and his family. My daughter and her family live in Brisbane.
I discovered haiku about ten years ago and since then have been writing haiku and and trying to capture the precious moments in daily life. I have authored five Mathematics books and three story books for children .
My other interest are chess and birdwatching.

Eva Joan

Born 1960 in Germany
Living in Gluecksburg, Germany
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Colin Stewart Jones

Born 1968 in Manchester, England
Lives in Dingwall, Scotland

Colin does not regard himself as an academic but rather an autodidact who is talented in transforming what he has found, or found out. In a past life, he was the editor in chief of Gean Tree Press which produced Notes from the Gean:haiku journal and many books on haiku.

Alexander (Lex) B. Joy

Born 1989, USA
Resides in New England
Alexander B. Joy holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some of his writings are published under the name "Lex Joy."

Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian

Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian is a haiku writer, and a writer of many things. He is the co-founder of Africa Haiku Network and co-editor of its Mamba journal.
He runs a private website: https://emmanueljessiekalusian.wordpress.com

Pitamber Kaushik

Year of Birth: 1998
Place of Birth: Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand, India
City of current Residence: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Pitamber Kaushik is a writer, journalist, columnist, poet, verbal ability trainer, and independent researcher whose writings have appeared in over 200 publications across 50+ countries.

William Keckler

Born 1966, Steelton, USA.

William Keckler is a poet, translator, fiction writer and visual artist. His books include Sanskrit of the Body, which was selected by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series. His favorite haiku poet is everybody.

David J Kelly

Born in 1963 in Middlesex, Greater London, UK.
Currently resident in Dublin, Ireland.
David J Kelly is a scientist by training (PhD in Zoology), but has been fascinated by the music of language for longer than he can remember. His main hobbies are birds and words. David’s first collection, Hammerscale from the Thrush’s Anvil(Alba Publishing), was published in November 2016.

George Klacsanzky

(1956-2003)

Born in Budapest, Hungary, but living the majority of his life in Seattle, Washington, George was an early organizer of English haiku publishing and events. In 1984, George started a zen-centered haiku journal called Haiku Zasshi Zo--the first haiku journal in the Northwest of the United States. Besides being the editor of this pivotal journal, he organized many haiku walks, conducted haiku meetings, shared haiku news, and sponsored haiku contests.

Though he was focused on spreading haiku throughout the Northwest, he was a prolific haiku writer. He regularly went on bicycle trips--sometimes as long as from Seattle to Chicago. On these excursions, he would write haibun. He often infused humour in his haiku, though he definitely leaned towards darker topics as well.

Despite writing thousands of haiku, he rarely sent his haiku for publication. He was more content with the process of writing haiku and spreading the joy haiku with others. However, he had haiku printed in journals like Brussels Sprout, Frogpond, and Poetry Nippon,while also being printed in books such as Haiku Moment(Bruce Ross, 1993), No Longer Strangers (Haiku Northwest and Tanya McDonald, 2014), and Journey to the Interior(Bruce Ross, 1998) for his contribution to haibun.

He passed away on New Year’s Eve in 2003, after complications with a diabetic attack. He is survived by twin sons, Christopher and Nicholas Klacsanzky.

This profile was created with the kind help of George’s son Nicholas Klacsanzky using his personal archive. Nicholas is regularly published in haiku journals and is soon releasing a book called Zen and Son, which is a compilation of George’s and Nicholas’ haiku.

Selected haiku:

early morning

fishing boat full of

pelicans 

orange carp

lost in the reflection

red maple leaves

with each receding

wave—the sound of

pebbles

с каждой  волной
отступающей - ропот
гальки

(Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku edited by Bruce Ross)

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barking all the way

down the street—the

dog catcher’s truck

(Poetry Nippon 75 (1986); Haiku Zasshi Zo, 1988 ; The Rise and Fall of Sparrows, Anthology (winter/spring), ed. Alexis K. Rotella, (1990) 

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empty elevator

one purple

sock       

(Brussels Sprout 5:2 (September 1988); “Haiku Northwest Poets: In Memoriam,” Haiku Northwest, No Longer Strangers (Haiku Northwest 25th Anniversary Anthology, 2014), 117)

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   street person

tears on his face

   tattooed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

(Brussels Sprout10:3 (September 1993)

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dead seagull

on the beach—eyes still

looking for fish

(Haiku Zasshi Zo (winter/spring, 1988)

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Some haiku translated in Hungarian:

as I wait

the clouds

also

még én várok

a felhök —

ugy szintén

*

incense

fills the cathedral square

game of chess

tömjén

betölti a székesegyház terét —

sakk játék

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on the bus

woman carrying a naked

mannequin

today

one country fly became

a city fly

floating past

on this gray day

sumi-e duck

dead rat

on sidewalk—

teeth showing

rising from

the fire—sparks

stars

crab

shell filled

with sand

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https://academichelp.net/samples/creative-writing-samples/haiku-samples/george-klacsanzky.html

https://sites.google.com/site/haikunorthwest/Home/faq

https://www.questia.com/library/101605257/haiku-moment-an-anthology-of-contemporary-north-american

http://www.wowwi.orc.ru/cgi-bin/shuttle/summary.cgi?author_id=1144326766

Nicholas Klacsanzky

Born in Seattle, USA
Livingin Seattle, USA

Nicholas Klacsanzky is the editor of Haiku Commentary, an online journal for the analysis of haiku and related forms. He was the haiku/senryu editor of Frogpond journal in 2023 and now also in 2024. Nicholas started to write haiku with the inspiration of his father, George Klacsanzky, who was the editor of the journal Haiku Zasshi Zo. 

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Tricia Knoll

Born in Chicago Illinois, USA
Living in Portland, Oregon, USA
http://triciaknoll.com
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Nadejda Kostadinova

Born 1974 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Residing Sofia, Bulgaria.

Nadejda Kostadinova came back to writing after a long break in 2017. Getting to grips with the modern poetry she also encountered haiku and got fascinated by its depth and brevity. Since then, her work has been published in various online and printed magazines and has been awarded honorable mentions and prizes in competitions.

Marek Kozubek

Born; 1970 in Zywiec, Poland
Resides in Żywiec, Poland, and Bangkok, Thailand.

His haiku poems have been published in The Mainichi, Asahi Haikuist Network, Haikuniverse, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Sol Magazine, The World Haiku Review, Whirligig, Failed Haiku, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, and Leaf – The laureate of international haiku contests

S.M. Kozubek

Born 1947 in Evanston Illinois, USA
Living in Sarasota, Florida, USA

After retiring from practicing law, S. M. Kozubek devotes more time to writing haiku and other poetry, plays, flash fiction and other works. He also leads writing workshops. His poems have appeared in ICON, Journal of Modern Poetry, Frogpond, Mayfly, is/let, A Hundred Gourds, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, Skylark, Prune Juice, Red Moon Anthology, failed haiku, hedgerow, Sonic Boom and other publications.
https://mkozubek1.wordpress.com

Lavana Kray

Lavana Kray is from Romania. 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 combined with an artistic visual. She currently serves as Haiga Editor of the Cattails Review (UHTS). She is founder and editor of Our best haiga journal.

Blog : https://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.com/
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Lavana Kray

Lives in Romania
Blog: https://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.com/

Jim Krotzman

Born in USA 1949 
Living in Wisconsin USA

Jim Krotzman taught secondary reading and English for 36 years in Wisconsin and Colorado. He started writing haiku and senryu in the 1990s when he wrote along with his students as part of writer’s workshop. He uses irony, contrast, humor, puns and other wordplay in his haiku.

Michael Henry Lee

Born 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Living in Saint Augustine, Florida, USA

Kat Lehmann

Born: 1969 in Reading, PA
Currently: Guilford, CT

Kat is a founding co-editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. A former research biochemist, she likes to contemplate the grandiose within the details.

Website: https://katlehmann.weebly.com/
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Marcus Liljedahl

Born 1972 in Malmö, Sweden
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Marcus Liljedahl lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Bottle Rockets, Noon, Bones, is/let, Under The Basho, Otoliths, and others. Marcus haiku was included in the anthologies Haiku 2015 and Haiku 2016, edited by Scott Metz and Lee Gurga. He was also one of 17 poets to appear in A New Resonance 10, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts. He is the author of the e-chapbook War Zone.

Eric A. Lohman

Eric A. Lohman lives in Powder Springs, GA. He is a psychiatric social worker, composer, avid cyclist and poet. He works in the emergency department of a large urban medical center, evaluating and assisting the homeless, the chemically dependent and the chronically mentally ill. Much of his poetry reflects his response to and efforts to cope with that reality. He also composes music for orchestra as well as smaller ensembles and solo performance, toward similar ends. He has been active in performing and written arts for 35 years and holds a bachelor’s degree in musical theory and composition from Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL.

Gregory Longenecker

Born1947 in Hollywood, California, USA
Living in Pasadena, California USA
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Bob Lucky

born:15 August, 1956, USA
current residence: Portugal

Bob Lucky is the author of Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks(SurVision Books, 2018), My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), and the e-chapbook What I Say to You (proletaria.org, 2020).

Oscar Luparia

Born 1956 in Vercelli (Italy)
Living in Vercelli (Italy)
He is a trade unionist. Haiku, mountains and photography are his main passions.
Since 2011 till 2019 he has been a member in the jury of the International Haiku Contest established by the Italian association “Cascina Macondo”.
His haiku eBooks are available on: https://archive.org/details/@oscar_luparia

Roman Lyakhovetsky

 Originally from Russia, Roman Lyakhovetsky now lives in Israel. His haiku and tanka appeared in various journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Scifaikuest, and A Hundred Gourds, among others.

Maya Lyubenova

Born 1956 in Bulgaria
Living in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
A title-holder of the World Haiga Association Master Haiga Artist.

Jayashree Maniyil

Born 1971 in Bombay, India
Living in Melbourne, Australia

Anna Maris

Born 1970 in Malmö, Sweden
Living in Övraby, Sweden

Svetlana Marisova

Born 1990 near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Lived in New Zealand from 2004
March 17, 1990 - September 7, 2011
 

Cendrine Marrouat

Cendrine Marrouat is a poet, writer, photographer, watercolor painter, digital artist, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored, co-authored, and edited more than 50 books in several genres. She is also the (co-)creator of several poetry forms inspired by the Haiku and runs The Haiku Shack Magazine. 

Website:https://creativeramblings.com

John McDonald

Living in Edinburgh, Scotland
http://zenspeug.blogspot.com

R.D. McManes

born 1953 - USA - currently resides in Topeka, Kansas.
R.D. McManes is the author of seven poetry books. He has had over 500 poems featured in numerous worldwide publications. Mr. McManes enjoys reading and writing haiku, senryu and free verse poems.

Maria Chiara Miduri

Born 1981, Italy
Currently living in Turin

Maria Chiara Miduri is a cognitive and linguistic anthropologist (PhD), teacher and researcher. She writes haiku in English since 2016. She practice haiku as poetry as well as a philosophy of life in the light of Zen tradition.

Rowan Beckett Minor

Born 1992 in West Virginia, USA
Current location: Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Rowan Beckett Minor is a feminist, mental health advocate, and body positive activist currently living in Norfolk, Virginia. She has received various awards and nominations, including shortlist for the 2017 Touchstone Award. Lori is the editor of #FemkuMag and Bleached Butterfly, as well as the author of two poetry chapbooks.
Website: https://loriaminor.wixsite.com/poet

Daniela Misso

Born 1975 in San Donato Milanese (Italy)
Living in San Gemini, Terni (Italy)

Daniela is a retired school teacher. She began writing haiku in 2019. Winner of national and international competitions, her poems have been published online and in anthologies, journals and newspapers worldwide. She is author of the books Connessioni Sottili, ed. FusibiliaLibri, 2021 and Ciliegi in fiore, Edizioni Accademia Barbanera, 2023.

Matthew Moffett

Born in 1987 in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA
Living in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA

Matthew Moffett currently teaches Introduction to Academic Writing and Freshman Composition at Mid Michigan Community College, but hopes to someday teach a course devoted solely to haiku and related forms. He hopes you enjoy his poems!

Beverly Acuff Momoi

Living in Mountain View, California, U.S.A.

Tim Murphy

Born 1967 in Cork, Ireland
Living in Valencia, Spain
Bio: Tim Murphy has been writing haiku since 2016. His reviews of Japanese short-form collections have appeared in Kokako and Presence.

Archana Kapoor Nagpal

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Elena Naskova

Born: Stip, Macedonia
Resides: Seattle, WA, USA

Elena Naskova immigrated to the USA when she was twenty-five. Elena writes haiku, poetry and plays. On days when Elena doesn’t write, she usually paints.

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Nika

Born 1946, Spokane, Washington, USA
Current Residence: Victoria, BC, Canada
Nika is the pen name of retired educator Jim Force. He currently writes with The Heron’s Quill in Victoria where he is a member of Haiku Arbutus. His haiku have been widely published in magazines and anthologies. He has published two chapbooks: frogs singing (1993) and snail my friend (2015).

Nancy Nitrio

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Gail Oare

Born 1952 in USA
Gail Oare is a retired science publishing executive. She writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and consults.

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Rita Odeh

Born 1960 in Nazareth, Israel
Resides in Nazareth, Israel
Website/Blog: http://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/

I have B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Haifa University. I am a high school teacher for English and Creative Writing in my town. I write poetry, short stories, novels and literary articles. I am fond of writing short poems, haiku, tanka and creating haiga. Many of my poems and short stories, as well as some literary articles and book reviews and translated texts, have been published in a number of journals and newspapers in my country as well as online journals. I was chosen to be a contributor for Daily Haiku in the 5th cycle: April 2008 to September 2008. My haiku have been published in Daily Haiku, Simply Haiku, tinywords and other journals.

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Pravat Kumar Padhy has obtained his Masters of Science and Technology and a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. His poetry has been featured in many journals and anthologies. His poems received many awards, honours, and commendations including the Editors’ Choice Award at Writers Guild of India, Sketchbook, Asian American Poetry, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, UNESCO International Year Award of Water Co-operation, The Kloštar Ivanić International Haiku Award, IAFOR Vladimir Devide Haiku Award, and others. His haibun are featured in many international journals including Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands Haibun, and others. His work is showcased in the exhibition “Haiku Wall”, Historic Liberty Theatre Gallery in Bend, Oregon, USA. His tanka, ‘I mingle’ is published in the “Kudo Resource Guide”, University of California, Berkeley. His poem, “How Beautiful” is included in the Undergraduate English Curriculum at the university level.

Recently he has experimented with an innovative genre of poetry “Hainka’, a poetic fusion of haiku and tanka, with the image linking of the ‘fragment of the haiku as the ‘pivot line’ of the following tanka. https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/6076

Tom Painting

Born 1951 in Rochester, New York, USA
Living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Vandana Parashar

Vandana Parashar is a post-graduate in Microbiology and teacher by profession. A person of less  words,her affinity for all things "micro" perhaps attracted her to haiku. Her work has been published in many journals like Cattails, A Hundred Gourds ,Creatrix, Naad Anunaad, Ginyu Haiku Anthology, Prune Juice. Her haiku has been featured in Wordweavers contest 2016 and got second place in Wordweavers contest 2017. Her haiku got honorable mention  in Italian Haiku Association Matsuo Basho  Contest 2015. She lives in Chandigarh,India with her husband and two daughters.

Aparna Pathak

Born: 1970, India
Resides: Gurugram, India
Aparna Pathak is freelance writer from India. Her work appears in Poetry Life and Times , Reflections , Negative Suck , Poetry 24, Rolling Thunder Press , Blue Cygnus, Earthen Lamp Journal , Lost Tower Publication, Inner Child Press (US), Silver Birch Press , Shot Glass Journal , The Heron’s Nest, Akisame (Newsletter of European Haiku Society, Hedgerow, Prune Juice, Creatrix poets, Presence, Chrysanthemum, Whispers, The Mamba, World Haiku Review, Wild Plum, Failed Haiku, The Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi, Stardust, Akitsu Quarterly, Frameless Sky, Bones, Cattails, brass bell: a haiku journal

Books Published: Silent Flute (2012).

Dejan Pavlinović

Born 1968 in Pula, Yugoslavia
Living in Pula, Croatia

Dejan Pavlinović is an English and German teacher, part-time tour guide and member of the indie band The Chweger. He has been writing haiku since 2007. He has published 3 haiku books:  Mliječnom stazom/Down the Milky Way (2016), Nexus Haiku(co-authored, 2021), Linije života/Life Lines/生命線 (2024).

Blog:https://smilingcricket.blogspot.com

Diana Petkova

Born 1961 in Dolna banya, Bulgaria
Living in Dolna banya, Bulgaria
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Vijay Prasad

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. was born in 1983, in Patna, India where he resides.
He is tax professional (CMA), dedicated to haiku, modern literary theories, existentialism, Dadaism, psychological analysis, AI, etc. 
He has been published in Heliosparrow, Bones, Under the Basho, Failed Haiku, Prune Juice, Cattails, Sonic Boom, Haiku Dialogue, The Wiseowl E-mag, Dadakuku, Triveni, ubu. among others. 
He has been nominated for Best of Net Poetry Award (2024) by The Wiseowl E-Mag, for Red  Moon Anthology (2024) by Five Fleas, placed under highly recommend category, Sixth Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Contest (02/07/21) 

Sandi Pray

Born 1949 in Maryland, USA
Living in North Carolina & Florida, USA
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Vaishnavi Pusapati

She is a physician writer, previously published in nearly eighty journals such as Cold Moon Journal, Autumn Moon Journal, Heron's Nest Journal, Poetry Pea Journal, Haikuniverse, Under the Basho among many others. She is the winner of the Beyond Words microfiction contest.

Vinay Leo R.

Born: 1987 in Bangalore, India.
Living in Bangalore, India.

Vinay Leo R. is a poet and writer from Bangalore, India. He loves to write haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun, and his work has been published in haiku journals such as cattails, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, A Hundred Gourds, Sonic Boom, Frameless Sky and Failed Haiku. His work has also been part of the Naad Anunaad print anthology, and has reviewed a book for the Narrow Road journal. Two longer fiction has also made it to other printed books. He is an avid reader, and considers himself as a student always looking to learn more about haiku and other poetry forms.

Kala Ramesh

Born in Chennai, India
Living in Pune, India
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Michael Rehling

Born 1946 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Living in Presque Isle, Michigan, USA

Jane Reichhold

Born 1937 in Lima, Ohio, U.S.A.
Died in 2016

I’ve been writing haiku since the 1960s and have published over 40 books of haiku, renga, and tanka. I have translated 7 books from the Japanese with the best seller being Basho The Complete Haiku. Writing and Enjoying Haiku, also published by Kodansha, along with A Dictionary of Haiku, by AHA Books, are still often on Amazon’s best-seller list. The latest tanka book, was translated with Machiko Kobayashi from Akiko Yosano’s most famous book, Midaregami – Tangled Hair. AHApoetry.com was started in 1995 and  AHAforum is the place poets meet online since 2006.

Michele Root-Bernstein

born in USA in 1953
lives in Michigan, USA

Michele Root-Bernstein devotes herself to haiku, haibun, and haiga. Her work appears in journals and anthologies at home and abroad and on three large rocks in Ohio. She has served as co-editor of Frogpond and book editor of Modern Haiku. Currently she facilitates the Evergreen Haiku study group in mid-Michigan.

Cynthia Rowe

Born in Melbourne, Australia
Living in Sydney, Australia
http://www.cynthiarowe.com.au
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Miriam Sagan

Born NY, NY, USA 1954
Living in Santa Fe, NM USA

Miriam Sagan is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her haiku mentor was Elizabeth Searle Lamb and Miriam edited Elizabeth’s collection Across the Wind Harp (La Alameda Press, 1999). She created three haiku paths in Santa Fe, including one at the Audubon Society. 

Jacob Salzer

Born in Renton, WA USA
Living Vancouver, WA, USA
Jacob Salzer is a haiku poet who served as the managing editor for the following haiku anthologies: Yanty’s Butterfly (2016), New Bridges (2018), and Half A Rainbow (2020) and is currently the managing editor for a haiku anthology dedicated to people who don’t have access to clean water. His poetry website can be found at: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/mareliberumhaiku

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi is a Management Postgraduate working for a Pharma Company in Hyderabad, India. He is well known as a haiku writer in India and overseas. Srinivasa won several awards including winner in VCBF haiku contest in international category 2022. His debut book forget-me-nots was published in 2022.

Ernesto P. Santiago

Born 1967 in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
Living in Athens, Greece 
Ernesto P. Santiago says "He is too small for his ego. He is enough for himself." He lives in Athens, Greece, where he continues to explore the poetic myth of his senses, and has recently become interested in the study of haiku and its related forms.

Kelly Sargent

Date of birth: 1970
Place of birth: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Present place of residence: Williston, Vermont, USA
Website: http://www.kellysargent.com 

Kelly Sargent is an award-winning hearing impaired author and artist. Her debut collection of haiku and senryu poems is entitled Bookmarks (Red Moon Press, 2023).

Minal Sarosh

Born in 1960 in Nashik, Maharashtra, India
Living In Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Minal Sarosh is an awarded Indian English poet and author of novel Soil for My Roots (LiFi Publications, Delhi) 2015. Her first poetry collection, Mitosis and other poems was published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata, in 1992. Her haiku, senryu, and tanka have been published in reputed online journals and print anthologies. In 2018, her haiku won the 7th Annual Japan- Russia Haiku Contest of the Akita International Haiku Network and was awarded the ‘Akita International University President’s Award’.

Vessislava Savova

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria
Living in Sofia, Bulgaria
http://vessislava.blogspot.com

Gabriel Sawicki

Born 1983 in Wroclaw, Poland
Living in Wroclaw, Poland

Albert Schlaht

Born 1966 Ronan, Montana
Residing in Missoula, Montana, USA

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is a Routing Analyst in Montana, where he earned his degree in Creative Writing 2000 from the University of Montana. He pens writings of a short nature, which have appeared in various journals. He has two books published, Schlaht Family History 2011, and Singers in the Skull 2014.

Shloka Shankar

Born 1989 in Bangalore, India
Living in Bangalore, India

Richa Sharma

Born 1982 at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Presently residing at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Richa Sharma is a double Post Graduate in Management and Business Economics and a qualified Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management. Apart from her keen interest in academics, she loves the world of literature and poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print journals dedicated to Japanese short poetry since 2019 like Frogpond, the cherita, Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, Kingfisher, Failed Haiku, Drifting Sands Haibun, Under The Basho, Bones, Seashores, Wales Haiku Journal, #FemkuMag, Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and others. She received an Honorable mention in Vancouver's Cherry Blossom Invitational Haiku Festival, 2021. For her, composing haiku is a great meditation technique that unites the mind with the heart in the enlightening moment.

Adelaide B. Shaw

Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, NY, USA. She is the mother of three Children and grandmother of six. Adelaide been creating Japanese poetic forms–haiku, haibun, tanka , senryu and photo haiga–for nearly 50 years, has been published widely and placed well in several contests. Her collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, published by Modern Tanka Press, won third place in the Haiku Society of America’s Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Award. Her second book of haiku, The Distance I’ve Come, is available on Cyberwit and Amazon. Adelaide also writes fiction and has been published in several journals. Some of her published Japanese short form poetry are posted on her blog: http://www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com

Keith Simmonds

Born in St.Philip, Barbados
Living in Rodez, France

Neena Singh

Born 1956 at Lucknow, (Uttar Pradesh) India
Living at Chandigarh, India

Neena is a banker turned poet. Her poetry and haiku are regularly featured in online journals and international magazines. She is the author of Whispers of the Soul and One Breath Poetry. Neena runs a non-profit for the education and health of underprivileged children in Chandigarh, India.

Blog: Whispers of the Soul

Ram Krishna Singh

Ram Krishna Singh is an Indian English poet, who has been writing for over four decades now. He is widely published, anthologized and translated into several languages, with nearly 25 poetry collections, including 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022), and Poems And Micropoems (2023) to his credit.
More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

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Tatjana Stefanović

Born 1960 in Belgrade, Serbia
Living in Belgrade, Serbia

Tatjana Stefanović is a lawyer by profession. She writes fairy-tales, haiku, and poetry (modern and for children). Her haiku have won a good number of awards and have been included in a number of collections and journals, in her country and abroad. Tatjana is a member of the United Haiku and Tanka Society (USA).

Mary Stevens

Born 1965 in USA
Living at present: Hurley, NY USA

A member of HSA since 2003, Mary Stevens co-judged with John Stevenson the 2013 Nicholas Virgilio Haiku Contest. At the 2015 Haiku North America in Schenectady, NY, she presented “The Cicada’s Voice: How Wabi Sabi Can Teach Us How to Live.”

Mantas Stockus

Year and Country of Birth: 1990 Lithuania
Live at Present: Malta

Mantas Stockus is a Malta-based Lithuanian. He has MA in Modern-and-Contemporary Literature and Criticism and is particularly interested in thought-provoking writing and poetry. His writing has appeared in various print and digital publications.
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Iliyana Stoyanova

Born1969 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Living in St Albans, UK
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Barbara Strang 

Born 1944, Invercargill, New Zealand
Lives at Christchurch, New Zealand

Barbara Strang has been writing haiku for nearly thirty years. Her work has been placed and published in New Zealand and overseas. She has appeared in the last three NZ haiku anthologies, and has produced two long-form poetry books. She’s the leader of the Small White Teapot Haiku Group.

Debbie Strange

Born 1955 in Canada
Living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Debbie Strange is a maker of poems, music, photographs, and art. She has an affinity for birds and water, and feels most at peace when exploring nature with her husband. Debbie's creative passions are her solace and salvation, connecting her more closely to the world and to herself.
website: http://www.debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca

Maureen Sudlow

Maureen lives in Whanganui, New Zealand with her husband Rod, and their Staffie Bert. She loves poetry, particularly Japanese and classical Chinese forms, and is also a keen photographer and amateur water-colourist. Maureen has a Diploma in Creative Writing and has published two children’s picture books and two small poetry collections. She is a member of the New Zealand Poetry Society.

https://www.kiwissoar.wordpress.com

André Surridge

Born 1951 in Hull, England
Living in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is the winner of several writing awards for haiku including the Kyoto Museum for World Peace Award (JAPAN); Jane Reichhold International Prize (USA) and the Janice Bostok International Haiku Award (AUS).
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Born 1946 Tokyo, Japan
Living in Sanda, Hyogo prefecture, Japan.

George Swede

Born 1940 in Riga, Latvia
Living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://georgeswede.com/
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(work from 1975 to 2010 inclusive)

Lech Szeglowski

Born 1959 in Gdansk, Poland
Studied Polish Philology and Postgraduate Studies of Speech Therapy at the University of Gdansk. He has been reading Japanese genre poetry since the late 1980s and writing haiku since the early 2000s. Rarely published, but his haiku in English have received several awards and appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
http://haikuwordlech.blogspot.com/
http://lechaiku.blogspot.com/

​Irena Iris Szewczyk

Born in Warsaw, Poland​
Living in Warsaw, Poland​

Philologist and photographer has been creating haiku and haiga since 2011. Her works were awarded in contests and published in magazines, reviews and anthologies around the world. A title-holder of the World Haiga Association Master Haiga Artist. The author of the bilingual haiku book entitled „drugi brzeg/the other shore” containing her poems, photographs and haiga. One of founding members and a former board member of the Polish Haiku Association.
Blog (http://iris-haiku.blogspot.com/)