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| Megan Arkenberg Megan is a student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in Simply Haiku, Tiny Words and Modern English Tanka's Landfall Anthology, and in various exhibitions at 3LIGHTS Gallery. Pamela A. Babusci Pamela A. Babusci is an internationally award winning haiku/tanka & haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon Competition (tanka category), First Place Kokako Tanka Competition, Basho Festival Haiku Contest (Japan) and Honorable Mention Suruga Baika Literary Festival (Japan). Pamela has illustrated several books, including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards and Taboo Haiku. She was the logo artist for Haiku North America in NYC in 2003 and HNA in Winston-Salem, NC in 2007. In her spare time she presses flowers, ferns & leaves to make cards & framings, abstract watercolor/oil painting, sumi-e painting, Chinese calligraphy, makes collages & jewelry. She has a deep desire to be creative on a daily basis, which feeds her spirit & soul & gives meaning to her life. Poetry & art have been an integral part of her existence since her early teen age years & will continue to be a driving force until she meets her creator. John Barlow John Barlow’s haiku have received awards in the United Kingdom , United States , Australia , New Zealand , Ireland and Japan . His books include Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006) and (with Matthew Paul) Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (2008). He is also currently on the editorial staff of The Red Moon Anthology, and is the editor of The Haiku Calendar (which has appeared annually since 2000), and co-editor (with Martin Lucas) of The New Haiku (2002). Other works he has edited have been honoured by the Haiku Society of America (on four occasions) and the Poetry Society of America, while his debut solo exhibition, The Bittern's Neck, appeared at 3LIGHTS in 2008. His haiku in Way Back Home were written on his ‘local patch’ on the Sefton Coast . Irene Brown To date, my haiku has been published in Football Haiku; the British Haiku Society’s magazine, Blithe Spirit, plus 2 of their anthologies, Path and River; the haiku magazine, Presence and regularly in Haiku Scotland where I won their Spring Haiku competition in 2007. Helen Buckingham Helen Buckingham was born in London, 1960, and presently lives in Bristol. Her poems have appeared throughout the world, in journals and anthologies such as Presence and Snapshots (UK), Frogpond, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, and A New Resonance 5 (US) and The Mainichi Daily News (Japan). Her work has been placed in competitions including the HIA, The Basho Memorial, The Suruga Baika and The Mainichi Daily News (Japan) and The Hackett and The Haiku Calendar (Snapshot Press, UK). Susan Constable Susan Constable's haiku and haiga have appeared in numerous print and on-line journals in the past two years. Retired from dual careers - education and business - she lives on the west coast of Canada , where nature provides many wonderful haiku moments. Jennifer Corpe Jennifer Corpe is temporarily finding her “way back home” to Indiana after many years in Michigan and Washington State and is enjoying revisiting the places of her youth. Since beginning the haiku journey in June of '07, her work has appeared in White Lotus, moonset, Simply Haiku and Riverbed. Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal Luis's senryu poems have been published in Frogpond, Raw Nervz Haiku, and Blind Man's Rainbow as well as at 3LIGHTS Gallery. Cherie Hunter Day Cherie Hunter Day regularly contributes her haiku and tanka to journals in the USA , UK, and Australia . Her first tanka book, Early Indigo, won first place in the Snapshot Press Contest in 1999 and an honorable mention in the Merit Book Awards in 2001. Her first haiku book, The Horse with One Blue Eye, was published by Snapshot Press in 2006. Her most recent tanka book, Kindle of Green, is a collaborative tanka sequence with David Rice. Cherie lives in San Diego , California . Raffael De Gruttola Raffael de Gruttola. Founding member of the Boston Haiku Society in 1987 and Past President of the Haiku Society of America as well as Treasurer and first Northeast Regional Coordinator of HSA. He has published one book of haiku, Recycle/Reciclo. His haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga have appeared in many journals throughout the United States and Europe. He has been invited to Japan on two occasions to participate in Renku sessions with poets from around the world and has presented papers at HNA, Haiku Canada, and at the First International Haiku Conference in Romania. In the summer of 2008, he will participate in an International Poetry Conference in Cesena, Italy. He has two portfolios of haiga: Echoes in Sand with visual artist Wilfred Croteau, and the rattle of bamboo windchimes with artist, Peggy McClure. His haiga collaborations have been exhibited in various exhibits in the Boston area and have been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has also collaborated with Carlos Colón on two books of concrete haiga: Circling Bats and Wall Street Park. He is currently co-editor of Modern Haiga. Amelia Fielden Amelia Fielden is a professional Japanese translator, and a lover of tanka. She lives in her homeland, Australia, and frequently visits Japan to lecture and research Deborah Finkelstein Deborah Finkelstein is an MFA Creative Writing Candidate at Goddard College. She received The Aurorean’s “Creative Writing Student Outstanding Haiku Award” 2008. Her haiku has been accepted into The Nor' Easter, Moonset, Bear Creek Haiku, and FreeXpresSion (Australia). She’s also published free verse poetry, short stories and journalism, and had plays produced in festivals. She teaches creative writing and works as an editor. M. Kei M. Kei is an award-winning poet who lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. He crews aboard a skipjack, a traditional wooden sailboat used to fish for oysters. He is the editor of the Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, as well as the author of Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, and the editor of the anthology Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart. Over 750 of his poems have been published in ten countries and five languages. In addition, he writes scholarly articles about tanka and compiles the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka. M. Kei's solo exhibitions, Autumn Water and Love Letters, were featured at 3LIGHTS Gallery in Autumn 2007 and Spring 2008. Bob Lucky Bob Lucky lives in Hangzhou, China, where he teaches history. His work has appeared in various journals Alan McKean Alan McKean lives in Lancashire, England, and has been writing for four years. His work has appeared in magazines & webzines, including Parameter, Boyne Berries, Deficit, Poets Letter (Poet in residence for April). Alan also has around 240 of his football poems posted on www. footballpoets.org. Vasile Moldovan Vasile Moldovan is a Romanina poet. Since 2001 he is the president of Romanian Society of Haiku. He published some haiku and senryu books: "Via dolorosa" (1998), "The moon's unseen face" (2001), "Noah's Ark" (2003), "Ikebana" (2005). Together with poetess Magdalena Dale,Vasile has written a bilingual renga book, "Mireasma de tei"/ "Fragrance of lime". Matthew Paul Matthew Paul has contributed haiku to journals in the United Kingdom and the United States for more than fifteen years, and many of these appear in his collection The Regulars (Snapshot Press, 2008). He is an associate editor for Presence haiku magazine, has a poetry blog at http://matthewpaulpoems.blogspot.com and lives and works in London . His latest book, Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku, written and compiled with John Barlow, is available from www.wingbeats.co.uk. Matthew Paul's 3LIGHTS exhibition, The One Man Band, can be found here. Patricia Prime Patricia is co-editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine Kokako and reviews editor of the Australian online magazine Stylus. Besides writing poetry, she writes articles and reviews. Patricia enjoys interviewing poets and editors and has had several of her interviews published in Takahe (NZ), and online in Simply Haiku and Stylus. Patricia recently judged the Junior Section of the NZPS International Haiku Competition. Future work includes an essay on African poetry and an essay on haiku by Indian poets. Rosie Roumeliotis Rosie Roumeliotis was born and raised in Sydney , Australia . A desire to explore her roots led her to Greece where she has been living since 1987. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Theatre Studies. Rosie teaches English, Theatre and Forensics and is a freelance translator. In 2007 she started submitting her poetry by taking part in the Haiku International Association contest where she received an honourable mention. Her work has been published in Haiku Presence and Frogpond. Jane Scott I am a 41-year-old Filipina who is currently living in Kent with my husband John and our lovely German shepherd Tjukken. I am not a trained poet but I'd like to think that what I'm writing is poetry. I have a degree in anthropology but most, if not all, of my professional life revolved around writing, research, publishing and journalism. So as you can see, writing is in my blood. I've been writing poems since my college days, through the inspiration of a friend. Since then, I have been invited to publish but I didn't really think of it seriously until I came to England . I have had several poems published in this country and this gave me the impetus to further hone my skill. I'd like to have an anthology published if a publishing house is brave enough to take me on. I enjoy reading other people's poetry and I hope I give the same pleasure to others through my own work. Poetry affords us a different way of looking at the universe and the world around us. Barbara A. Taylor Barbara lives in northern NSW, Australia. Her poems appear in journals and anthologies including Landfall, Atlas Poetica, Crickets and Chrysanthemums, Ludbreg Calendar 2008, Lynx, qaartisiluni, Ribbons, Wisteria, Shamrock, Tiny Words, Simply Haiku, Kokako, Moonset, Eucalypt, and elsewhere. Poetry with audio is at http://batsword.tripod.com N.C. Whitehead N. C. Whitehead is an Alabama based writer whose work has appeared in The Heron’s Nest, Mytholog and Modern English Tanka. Liam Wilkinson Liam Wilkinson is the founding curator and editor of the 3LIGHTS Gallery. His haiku and tanka have appeared in such publications as Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Modern English Tanka and Ribbons. From January 2009, Liam will take over as Editor-in-Chief of Modern Haiga. His latest e-book is The Darkening Tide, a collection of tanka. Liam lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Diane. Rafal Zabratynski Rafal Zabratynski (RaV) lives in Rzeszow, Poland, where he teaches teenagers English. Rafal writes mostly haiku but also haibun, rengay and creates haiga. His works appeared in numerous Internet publications, such as (among others): Contemporary Haibun Online, Haiku Harvest, Asahi Haikuist Network, tinywords, Simply Haiku, Mainichi Daily News, The Heron's Nest, Sketchbook, Chrysanthemum, Lynx, Roadrunner, Riverbed Haiku. Rafal is a moderator at the Polish forum "ABC haiku po polsku" and a member of the English "AHApoetry Forums". Since 2005, he has been running his personal website "Wordographs" at http://www.raaav.xt.pl/ . Writing haiku and mountaineering are Rafal's favourite ways of admiring the world. It is optional to display a biography at 3LIGHTS Gallery. 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