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| MEGAN ARKENBERG Megan is a student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she's been writing haiku and tanka for a little over a year. Her work has appeared in Simply Haiku, Tiny Words and Modern English Tanka's "Landfall" anthology. MAGDALENA DALE Magdalena Dale lives in Bucharest, Romania. She is a member of the Romanian Society of Haiku and has been published in bilingual national and international anthologies: Flori de tei /Lime-tree flowers, Greieri si crizanteme /Crickets and chrysanthemums, Scoici de mare/Sea shells. She has published in international anthology of tanka Fire Pearls published in Perryville , Maryland (S.U.A.) by M. Kei. Her poems have appeared in several reviews as: Haiku, Albatross, Dor de Dor, Ribbons, Modern English Tanka, Simply Haiku and Japanese review Ginyu. She published a bilingual tanka book Perle de roua / Dew pearls. Together with Mr. Vasile Moldovan they have written a bilingual renga book Mireasma de tei / Fragrance of lime, which is in press. Her poems have appeared in more literary sites online. AMELIA FIELDEN Amelia Fielden,who lives near Sydey,Australia is a translator of Japanese poetry,and writer of original English tanka.She has had 8 books of translations, and 5 of her own work published to date.Amelia's most recent tanka collection is Baubles,Bangles & Beads (Ginninderra Press,Canberra, 2007).for more information contact anafielden at hotmail dot com ROSE HUNTER I have had poetry and short stories published in various literary journals and magazines in Canada, the US, and Australia. I also have a couple of haiku coming up, in Roadrunner Haiku (August). M.KEI M. Kei 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 also serves as a member of the board of directors for a local maritime museum. He is the author of the new collection Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, and the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology, Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart. Both are available through his storefront at www.Lulu.com/firepearls. His poetry has been accepted for publication by Eucalypt (AUS), Kokako (NZ), Gusts (CAN), American Tanka, Modern English Tanka, Wisteria, Bottle Rockets, Red Lights, Ribbons, Moonset, Nisqually Delta Review, Haiku Harvest, Lynx, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku, Mayfly, and others. His work also appears in the anthologies Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, Sixty Sunflowers, To Find the Moon, Fish in Love, and Haiku Miscellany (CRO). M. Kei can be contacted through his blog at kujakupoet.blogspot.com. M. Kei is currently showing his tanka in the 3LIGHTS solo exhibition, Autumn Water. GARY LeBEL Gary LeBel has been published in the haiku, haibun, haiga and tanka genres as well as the short story and longer poetry forms in various publications in the US, England and Japan. He lives in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area and works as an industrial consultant with a firm he co-founded. He credits the works of Ki no Tsurayuki, Izumi Shikibu and Takuboku for drawing him to tanka. BOB LUCKY Bob Lucky lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his family, although he is about to move to Hangzhou, China. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bottle Rockets, Simply Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Modern English Tanka, Eucalypt, Wisteria, Frogpond, White Lotus, Shamrock, Ribbons, and Chrysanthemum. ALAN McKEAN Alan McKean lives in Lancashire, England. His work has appeared in magazines & webzines, including Parameter, Boyne Berries, Deficit, Poets Letter (Poet in residence for April), and a piece is to be used at his village railway station as part of a community arts project. Alan also has around 230 of my football poems posted on www. footballpoets.org. FRAN MASAT After 36 years as a university professor in the Midwest and Northeast, Francis lives in tropical Key West (“Come as You Are!”) with his wife Carol and their cats. His work appears in over 70 literary publications worldwide. VASILE MOLDOVAN Vasile Moldovan is a Romanian 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). MATTHEW PAUL Matthew Paul was born in New Malden, Surrey, in 1966 and lives in London. He is a regular conributor to haiku magazines in the UK and USA and his first collection of haiku, The Regulars, was recently published by Snapshot Press, who also publish George Swede. Matthew administers the British Haiku Society annual haibun anthology. ELLEN WESTON Ellen Weston has shifted her focus from the all consuming task of rearing her four children alone to an otherwise unknown part of her self. Born in Ayr, a small country town in Far North Queensland Australia, educated there, married there, becoming a mother there, fulfilling her wifely duties there, before moving on. When the last child left home Ellen packed her goods and chattels and moved on, eventually moving to Sydney where she still resides. Living amongst the bright lights and high-rise buildings of the City of Sydney she has watched her chrysalis slowly split open and her innermost self become exposed. Encouraged by renowned haiku and tanka poets she is now going through the tanka phase of her life. May it last forever... 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, Presence and Ribbons. He is a member of the Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society and has just published his third e-book, a collection of tanka entitled The Darkening Tide. |