| AN'YA an'ya is the editor of /moonset/ Literary Newspaper and has a new book entitled Seasons of a Hermitess published by Rosenberry Books due out in 2008. 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 the Tankafall exhibition at 3LIGHTS Gallery earlier this year. JOHN BARLOW John Barlow is the editor of The Haiku Calendar, which has appeared annually since 2000, and co-editor of The New Haiku (2002) and the forthcoming Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku. His own collections include Flamingo Shapes (2001) and Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006), and his haiku have received awards in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan . John presented his debut solo exhibition, The Bittern's Neck, at 3LIGHTS in 2008. ROBERTA BEARY Roberta Beary grew up in New York City . In the early 1990s she spent five years living in Tokyo where she began to study and write haiku. She has since won numerous awards for her poetry. In 2006, she co-edited, 'fish in love', the Haiku Society of America's Members' Anthology, and she is currently on the Editorial Staff of The Red Moon Anthology. Her debut collection, The Unworn Necklace, (Snapshot Press, 2007) won the Snapshot Press Book Award. CHRISTINE BRUNESS Christine Bruness is a published poet and artist. She has had hundreds of poems, short stories, essays, articles, guest editorials, and artwork published both in print and online literary publications. Her first book: Imbalance, An Experimental Collection of Micro Stories and Poetry, (written under her maiden name: Christine McGuigan) received the Rose/Rosemary Zientek 2000 Award. Her haiku and senryu have appeared in numerous publications, including OCEAN, Seasons, Haiku Headlines, Haiku Haven, Timepieces, Frogpond, Flutter, Dreams of Decadence, The Casino Anthology, and Bolts of Silk. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Richard, and their two cats: Daisy and Shadow. Strays visit often and are always welcome and fed. 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 Snapshot Press Calendar (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. RACHEL GREEN Rachel Green is a forty-something writer from the hills of Derbyshire in England . She has, for the last five years, been the full-time chronicler of Jasfoup (www.jasfoup.com) the demon and her first novel, An Ungodly Child, will be published in the spring. Her work can be explored via www.leatherdyke.co.uk MARTIN HALSALL Martyn Halsall lives in West Cumbria from where he works as a communications adviser. He is a former Guardian journalist, and continuing poetry editor and critic. MARTHA HUBBARD I am Martha Hubbard. The enclosed poem(s) are part of a longer work called The Islander. The title poem was in an anthology published last August by the University of Central Lancashire . I live on an island in the North Baltic, off the coast of Estonia . As well as poetry I am writing a collection of linked short stories about a 5th century Orthodox bishop living on the south eastern coast of the Black Sea . VIVIEN JONES I live on the north Solway shore dividing my time between writing prose, drama and poetry and devising reading events, often with music. I have a chapbook, Something in the Blood, being published in February 08 by Selkirk Lapwing Press. JUDY KAMILHOR Judy Kamilhor has been writing haiku, senryu, tanka, and other short poems since 2003, and has had over twenty published in places such as Haiku Harvest, Modern English Tanka, and Simply Haiku. One of her poems was selected for the World Haiku Club Showcase. KIRSTY KARKOW Though born in England and raised mostly in the British West Indies, Kirsty now lives on the coast of Maine in the US . Black Cat Press has published two collections of her tanka and haiku poetry. She is the past vice-president of the Tanka Society of America and presently the tanka editor of Simply Haiku 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 exhibition, Autumn Water, was featured at 3LIGHTS Gallery in Autumn 2007. NATALIA KUZNETSOVA I'm a university assistant professor of English and a freelance conference interpreter.I write poetry mostly in Russian,not long ago published a small book of lyrical poems;participated in a few poetry projects.Quite recently "discovered" the world of Japanese poetry and started to write tanka and haiku in English.Contributed some to several international competitions, won a third prize at the 12th Kusamakura haiku competition and an"Honourable Mention"at the Vancouver2008 Haiku Invitational competition. CATHERINE J.S. LEE Catherine J. S. Lee began writing haiku last year after years as a writer of short fiction. She lives, writes, teaches, and gardens on an island on the coast of Maine near Canada , and recently joined the editorial board of the Maine poetry journal, Off the Coast. Her haiku has appeared in Nocturne and is forthcoming in The Aurorean. A variety of print and online journals have published her fiction. 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. NIKOLOVA MAYA Nikolova Maya lives in Bulgaria and teaches English to musicians. She¢s been writing poetry for many years, not quite sure where the urge to write in English came from. Perhaps, because she tried to translate some of her Bulgarian poems and saw it was easier to write them directly in English. Her book Open the Door, a collection of free verse poems describing life under communism, was rewarded a Seal of Quality at www.fanstory.com. Haiku and haiga are her newest passions. She¢s been studying and trying to write haiku for less than two years. She's had her haiku and haiga published in at Electronic Poetry Network, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Sketchbook and in the Haiga Contest at WHA. Diagnosed breast cancer last year, she¢s quite well at the moment. Hurrying to write down her inspiration and revise all her previous stuff, she knows there isn't much time to be wasted. ANNETTE MINEO Annette Mineo is a poet living in the seaside artist community of Rockport, Massachusetts where she was born and raised. A recent graduate with a Master of Arts in English, the tanka has become Annette’s preferred form of poetry, esteemed by her for its ability to link what is the concrete reality of our existence with what is deeply human about I t. She has published two chapbooks, empty baskets and six sunflowers and an inch worm. Her poems have appeared in several journals such as American Tanka, Modern English Tanka, and Ribbons. 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". RITA ODEH Rita Odeh is a Palestinian poet living in Nazareth , Israel . She studied English and general literature in Haifa university. She has five books of poetry. Her interest in haiku began on Oct. 2006. Her texts were translated into several languages . Her personal site: http://www.geocities.com/ana_keyan/ DANA-MARIA ONICA My name is Dana-Maria Onica, 48 years old, eye doctor, from Romania . My interest in Japanese poetry began two years ago, reading Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book. Since then I am a pilgrim on the haiku path. My poems have been published in Simply Haiku, Tinywords and Lynx. I also have published two books of poems: Poppy Time (love poems inspired by Japanese Haiku) and First Flight (poetry inspired by Japanese haiku). MATTHEW PAUL Matthew Paul writes poems of all sorts, though mostly haiku, hundreds of which have been published in the last fifteen or so years. His first collection of haiku - The Regulars - was published by Snapshot Press in 2006. He is reviews editor for Presence haiku— magazine and is joint writer/editor (with John Barlow) of Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku, forthcoming in 2008 from Snapshot Press. ELLEN PECKHAM Ellen Peckham has read, published and exhibited in the U.S. , Europe and Latin America . She frequently uses both art forms in a single work, the text decorating and explicating and the image illuminating. Her archives of drafts, edits and art are collected at the Harry Ransom Center For The Humanities and a 7 minute visual biography, Parallel Vocabularies, is available on DVD and via her WEB site, www.ellenpeckham.com. DRU PHILLIPPOU Dru Philippou is a poet and lyric essayist. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Naropa University . She was raised in London and currently lives in Taos , New Mexico . 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. SOPHIE REYNOLDS Sophie Reynolds is a writer living in London , where she is currently studying for an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College . She grew up in Bath , and studied English, Writing and Performance at the University of York . She has written both poetry and prose from a young age, and has aspirations to write a novel. SUSAN RICHARDSON I am a poet and tutor of creative writing based in Wales. My collection of poetry, 'Creatures of the Intertidal Zone', inspired by my journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in the footsteps of an intrepid eleventh century female Viking, was recently published by Cinnamon Press. www.susanrichardson.co.uk ELAINE RIDDELL Elaine Riddell lives in Hamilton , New Zealand , an inland city on the banks of the Waikato River surrounded by dairy farming country. She has a background in education. Elaine writes haiku, tanka and other poems, some of which have been published in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and other parts of the world. ANDREA ROSE Andrea Rose lives in an old blue farmhouse in northern New Jersey with her old Lab, Bailey. She is a landscape designer, tree grower, gardener, backhoe operator, sailor and fledgling tanka poet. All in all, a nice fit for mixing tanka, haiku and life. 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. T. STRAY T. C. W. Stray, when not writing far into the wee hours of the morning, has a penchant for walking downtown in the middle of the night, burning anything from water to ice cream in the kitchen, and following where curiosity leads. Luckily there are at least five lives left. ALAN SUMMERS Alan lives in Bradford on Avon, England. Early in 2007, Alan co-judged a haiku competition for children from the slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya. He was also on the panel for the first ever British Sign Language Haiku Festival, at which he gave out the Basho Prize. He has been poet in residence for the Bristol Festival of Nature and Haiku Week at Bath Spa University. Alan and his wife are the founders of With Words, an initiative to promote literacy projects and the love of words, be it haiku, fables, children's fiction or poetry. ANDRÉ SURRIDGE Andre Surridge was bornin Hull, England, now lives in the heart of the Waikato in the city of Hamilton, New Zealand. He has won several writing awards including the Shell Playwrights Award NZ 1984; Haiku Have-a-Go Competition, Katikati, NZ, 2004 and the Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Award, Australia 2006. André was awarded 3rd place in the 2006 Hoshi-to-Mori International Tanka Contest and recently won the 2007 Kaji Aso Tanka Award. BARBARA A. TAYLOR Barbara is a regular reader at poetry evenings.Her poems appear in literary journals and anthologies including Landfall, Crickets and Chrysanthemums, Triplopia, The Salt River Review, Lynx, Ribbons, Wisteria, Stylus, Chrysanthemum, Kaleidowhirl, Tiny Words, Simply Haiku, Kokako, Moonset, Eucalypt, The Yellow Bat Review, Poemeleon, The Blue Fifth Review, Contemporary Haibun On Line,and elsewhere. Poetry with audio is at http://batsword.tripod.com PETAR TCHOUHOV Born in 1961 in Sofia , Bulgaria , Petar Tchouhov holds a B.A. in Library Science and an M.A. in Social Sciences, and is currently working for the Bulgarian National Library. He has published six books of verse, including Pedro’s Mule (1999), Provinces (2000), and Small Days (2002). Tchouhov has been published in Bulgarian and international collections of verse and has won poetry awards, as well as the “Agatha” prize for the best detective story. He is the winner of the 2004 MTel text-message poetry contest, as well as the recipient of the Development Group special award for the best manuscript for his novel Snowmen (2003). His haiku and related forms have been published in A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku 5, big sky: The 2006 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, dust of summers: The 2007 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, Contemporary Haibun, Haiku Presence, Ginyu, World Haiku 2006 and 2007, Simply Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Full Moon, Roadrunner, Mainichi Daily News, and tinywords. He is the winner of the top prize at the 61st Basho Festival. Tchouhov has played guitar and written music and lyrics for various rock bands and is currently playing with the ethno-rock band Gologan /www.gologan.net ; www.myspace.com/gologanmusic /. He is a member of the Association of Bulgarian Writers, the Sofia Haiku Club, the Haiku Society of America, the World Haiku Association, and Musicautor. VINCENT TURNER Vincent Turner has been writing poetry for the last ten years, now at the tender age of 27 he has feels he is now ready to begin the journey of "getting his work out there" Vincent feels his poetry is inspired by that which sorrounds him each day, be it the obstacle coure of smashed beer bottles outside a childs school, to the lack of intimacy between his lover. Family, street life, Death and hope run through his work like a city river. SASA VAZIC Sasa Vazic is a freelance journalist, astrologer, translator, writer of prose and poetry, essays, book reviews. Author of over 1000 articles on various topics which appeared in newspapers and journals, member of the editorial board of Haiku Novine, Ni¹, Serbia, Balkan Advisor for moonset the Newspaper (Oregon, USA), and member of the World Haiku Club, her haiku have been included in over ten national and international haiku anthologies and in a number of national and international haiku magazines. They have been translated into English, Japanese, Chinese, Macedonian, Slovenian, Croatian, German, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, French and Romanian. She is the recipient of several awards and commendations in contests held in her country, in Japan (Water, Lake and Sea; Suruga Baika; Basho Festival; Ito en), Germany , Croatia , Bulgaria , Canada , the USA and France . Largely, through her translation efforts she has brought English language haiku poetry, articles and books to Balkan readers and vice versa. Va¾iæ is the editor of the bilingual Haiku Reality (http://www.geocities.com/ana_vazic/indexeng.htm). She is the author of an e-book of haiku poetry entitled muddy shoes candy heart, edited by Anita Virgil and published by Peaks Press, USA (peakspress@lcscentral.net). She also creates haiga, some of which have been published at the World Haiku Club’s website and at Kuniharu Shimizu’s website See Haiga Here, as well as in the Contemporary Haibun published by the Red Moon Press, USA . Recently she has translated David G Lanoue’s novel Haiku Guy into Serbian. Her many longer poems and short stories as well as some literary articles and book reviews have also been published in a number of journals, in her country and abroad. DIANA WEBB Diana Webb has been writing haiku for over 15 years and belongs to the British Haiku Society where she is currently working with three other members to update their haiku teaching kit which should be adaptable for use with both children ad adults.Diana believes strongly in the contribution writing and reading haiku can make to well-being. Her work has been widely published in both printed and on-line journals and Hub Editions have brought out three earlier collections of hers: Dancing Stones; Stilling the Pen; and Already Along the Stream. LIAM WILKINSON Liam Wilkinson is the curator of the 3LIGHTS Gallery. His haiku and tanka, including sequences, have appeared in such publications as Bottle Rockets, Simply Haiku, Ribbons, Modern English Tanka and others. His latest ebook is The Darkening Tide, a collection of tanka. Liam lives in his native Yorkshire, England. |
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