Poet, composer of music (Max Able / Abel, Rawls & Hayes) and spoken-word performer (Scapeweavel), L. Ward Abel lives in rural Georgia, and has been widely published in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including White Pelican Review, The Pedestal, Versal (Netherlands), Juked, Angel Face, OpenWide (UK) , Ink Pot, Texas Poetry Journal, Kritya (India), Words-Myth, others. His chapbook, Peach Box and Verge, has been recently published by Little Poem Press (Virginia, USA). Twenty of his poems are featured, along with an interview, in a recent print issue of erbacce (UK). His new full book of poems, Jonesing For Byzantium, has just been published at UK Authors Press (London).
an'ya . . . whose haigo (haiku nom de plume) loosely translates to
'a peaceful light in the moonless night', lives in Oregon, USA. She
has been bestowed (too numerous to mention here) top world-class awards
and honours for her haiku poetry, as well as other verse forms, not
only throughout the United States, but in Japan, Canada, New Zealand,
Australia, Germany, India, the UK, Brazil, and the Balkans.
Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian writer, editor, and visual artist. She has acted as Canadian liaison for Muse Apprentice Guild, editor of A Little Archive of Poetry, haiga editor for Simply Haiku, artist-in-residence of moonset, and is founder of Magnapoets, a poetry group that seeks to promote the love of verse in all forms.
JOSEPH ARMSTEAD is a horror/dark fantasy novelist living in northern California, where he works as a
computer technologist. He is a member of the International Order of Horror Professionals, the Speculative Literature Foundation and a member of the American Mathematical Society. A writer of dark poetry, Mr. Armstead's work, often described as "a post-modern amalgam of classic and profane influences producing dark, edgy, lush and confrontative verse" * has been published in various online journals, among them: Poetic Voices, Autumn Leaves, SubtleTea, Eratio, Poetry Life & Times, and Adagio Verse Quarterly. He has been include in several poetry anthologies, including the THE NEW PLEIADES ANTHOLOGY of Poetry 2005. He is the author of eight novels and creator of the mythology of the Moon-Chosen vampires and the "Book of Dark Memory" from The Infernals series.
(* PERCUSSIONS Poetry Anthology)
Collin Barber lives in Marion, Arkansas, and works at a local hospital in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007). He has won awards for haiku, senryu, and tanka, and he maintains a personal website at http://collinbarber.com.
Mois Benarroch was born in Morocco and lives in Israel. He writes in three languages, Hebrew, Spanish, and English, and his poetry has been published in hundreds of magazines and anthologies worldwide. He was featured poet in the international Austin poetry festival, 1999, in Poetry Magazine (July 2000), and has read his poetry in Israel, Spain, and the US. He has published books of poetry, prose, and novels in Hebrew, Spanish, and English. His forthcoming novel, "On The Gates of Tangier", will be published in Spain by Destino. For more and information and more poems, see Author's Den.
Tom Berman has been a member of Kibbutz Amiad in the Upper Galilee, Israel, for over 50 years. He is a scientist; his research has mainly been focused on the Sea of Galilee (a.k.a. Lake Kinneret)and on an occasional ocean. He grew up in Glasgow, Scotland having arrived there aged 5 from Czechoslavakia with the Kindertransport in 1939. He is married with one wife, one dog, three daughters, seven granddaughters and a grandson. His poetry has been published here and there, now and again. He was Editor in Chief of the annual Voices of Israel Anthology from 2003 to 2006. Amazon.com is still trying to disperse of a book of his poems (Shards, A Handful of Verse).
Sangeet Bhullar (also known as H K Bhullar and Harsangeet Kaur - and no she doesn't have an identity crisis :)) lives in Wales in the UK after moving here from Singapore in 2002. She encountered her first Haiku more than 20 years ago. However it was not until December 1995 when she found the Shiki Haiku Mailing list, that her real learning and writing began! Between 1996 and 1998, she edited Reflections: A Haiku Diary. Her Haiku have appeared in a number of publications including Chaba, Frogpond, Woodnotes, as well as a number of anthologies: "Haiku Poetry Ancient & Modern" produced by Jackie Harding; A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Volume 1) published by Red Moon Press; and Haiku Sans Frontieres, an online anthology edited by Andre Duhaime. Her Haiku website now resides at http://www.thehaikupoet.com and she has a Haiku blog where she currently posts her work: http://www.thehaikupoet.com/blog/blogger.htm.
It is rumored that Jason Sanford Brown is actually a fictional character. He sometimes writes haiku, though some have disputed that claim. He clings tenuously to his sanity and his hairline and has been known to manage Roadrunner Haiku Journal. He has been repeatedly passed over for both the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Pulitzer Prize.
Andrea Cecon: Born in 1973 in Udine (Italy), I am a technician in hearing aids, traveller and haijin since four years. My works are published on magazines in several countries like The Heron's Nest (USA), Mainichi Daily News (Japan), Letni Casi (Slovenija), Temps Libres (Belgium), and others. I am the author of the book "Mandarini dopo il digiuno" (Tangerines after fasting) published in Italy in 2006.
Eliaz Cohen is an Israeli poet. You can read more about him here.
Susan Constable has been writing haiku since 2006 and composing haiga since 2007. Her work has been published in numerous on-line and print journals in Canada, the US, Europe, and Australia. New Resonance 6, due to be published in the summer of 2009, will include a selection of her poetry. Retired from teaching and several business ventures, she lives with her husband on the west coast of Canada.
Professionally a teacher, Mukul Dahal is a free lance poet, editor and translator from Nepal. He lives in Chitwan and works as an in charge of SOS Hermann meiner School running under SOS Kinderdorf International. He edits Pen Himalaya (http://penhimalaya.netfirms.com), a literary quarterly that publishes poetry, short stories and interviews. He has a book of poems originally written in Nepali to his credit. He has been awarded Shree Bani Prize for this work. He also has a manuscript of a collection of his poems in English translation called The Assembly of Voices and Other Poems. He has translated a number of Nepali poems and short stories into English. He writes both in English and Nepali. His poems and translation and essay have appeared in the literary journals such as Moon Gate International, Autumn Sky Poetry, Ann Arbour Review, World Poetry Press, Bologi.com, Quill and Ink and Post Colonial Web. He is a member of Sahitya Sanchar Samuha (Literary Communication Circle), Bani Prakashan, World Poets Society and Magnapoets. He is an honorary member of advisory board in worldpoetrypress.com.
Janet Lynn Davis has lived in Houston, Texas, for most of her life but is in the midst of planning a move to a rustic (and more peaceful) area to the north. She has had a strong interest in writing ever since she was a child. Professionally, she has worked extensively in the fields of communications, advertising, and publications. She took up poetry as a “serious” creative outlet only a few years ago, however. Her free verse can be found in a number of familiar Internet-based journals as well as in print; her tanka have appeared in many of the major publications for that genre.
Ivanka Deneva graduated Bulgarian literature and linguistics in “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia University and then she defended her PhD degree there. She is a member of the Bulgarian Writers’ Union – Sofia. Her creative work is in the field of the short story, novel, literature and theatre critique.
She is the author of “Spiritual Teacher” short novel, many short and long stories and the novel “Embers” /Zaharii Stoyanov publishing house, Sofia 1999/, the poetic anthology “Soul’s Enlightener” /Hristo Botev publishing house, Sofia 2000/, a book called “The Theatre of the Transition”, “Sparkles from Melpomena’s temple” / Hristo Botev publishing house, Sofia 2001/. Her book “This Hard Piece of Life” which was published by the Bulgarian Writers’ Union, Sofia in 2003, contains a short novel, long and short stories. It explores the national values of the Bulgarians as well as his hard life in the transition period /1989-2003/. Now she is working on a book of literature critique dedicated on works of some great Bulgarian writers.
She started winning recognition as she wrote the novel called “Embers”. It was nominated for the Bulgarian Writers’ Union award in the field of fiction. It was also recognized as “an important event in the contemporary Bulgarian literature” /a quote from “Bulgarian writer” newspaper issue 22 on 7th June, 2000 and issue 37 on 20th December, 2000/. Her short stories gained distinction at various national literature competitions organized by the Bulgarian Writers’ Union.
Her works have been presented in literature magazines and newspapers, for example “Flame”, “Scales”, “Bulgarian Pages” /a publication of the Bulgarian Writers’ Union/, “Bulgarian writer”, “Literature Newspaper”, “Union Television” cable TV and many others.
Her works have been published in online magazines from Canada, Australia, USA, Nepal, Russia and others. Her books are property of libraries in London, New York, Strasbourg, Moscow, Paris and other cities.
Ivanka Deneva is an author of more than 90 articles in national or local publications on scientific, community and aesthetic problems as well as she explores the development of young people in the field of literature.
She is also a correspondent of “The Speech Today” newspaper which is published by the Bulgarian Writers’ Union and of the e-bulletin “Liternet.bg”. She can be reached at ivdeneva@yahoo.com .
Curtis Dunlap lives near the confluence of the Mayo and Dan rivers in Mayodan, North Carolina. He has been published in a variety of anthologies and journals including Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Magnapoets, Modern Haiku, A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, Simply Haiku, big sky: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, red lights, Ribbons, and Valley Voices. He was awarded 3rd Prize in the 11th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in 2006. He was awarded the Museum of Haiku Literature Award in 2008. His personal haiku and related forms web site is located at http://www.tobaccoroadpoet.com/
Jeanne Emrich is a poet and artist living in Edina , Minnesota . The founder and first webmaster of Haiga Online: A Journal of Painting and Poetry (1998–2002), she currently is the editor of Reeds: Contemporary Haiga (2003--present), the online version of which may be seen at http://www.reedscontemporaryhaiga.com. She also is the webmistress of http: www.tankaonline.com.
Her first collection of tanka, The Pleiades at Dawn, was released January 1, 2007.
MARGARITA ENGLE is the Cuban-American author of books about the island, most recently The Surrender Tree (Henry Holt & Co., 2008). The Poet Slave of Cuba received many honors, including the American Library Association's Pura Belpre Medal, an International Reading Association Award, and the Americas Award, presented at the Library of Congress. Margarita lives in central California, where she enjoys hiking and helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search-and-rescue dog training programs.
Laryalee Fraser is a retired reporter/photographer, enjoying small-town life in British Columbia, Canada. She spends time with gardening, photography, writing, and visiting her grandchildren. Lary's work has been in several online publications, and she has compiled an online anthology of haiku entitled "a procession of ripples": http://laryalee.users.sunwave.net/ripples.htm
Damien Gabriels was born North of France, where he still lives, and works in banking. Married and the father of three children, Damien discovered the haiku form in 2001, which spurred his interest in other short form works. After being published in various reviews, webzines, and several anthologies, his first two collections of poetry were published in 2006. « Le temps d’un haïku » - Editions Chloé des Lys and « Trios » - Editions Les Adex. He is a member of the French Haiku Association since its creation.
Damien Gabriels est né dans le Nord de la France, où il habite toujours et travaille (secteur bancaire). Marié, 3 enfants, il a découvert le haïku en 2001, aboutissement logique de son attrait croissant de grand lecteur pour les formes courtes (nouvelles, chroniques). Après des publications en revues, sur différents sites Internet et dans des anthologies collectives, ses 2 premiers recueils sont sortis en 2006 : « Le temps d’un haïku » aux Editions Chloé des Lys et « Trios » aux Editions Les Adex. Il est membre de l’Association Française de Haïku depuis sa création.
You can reach him at DamienGabriels@aol.com , and view his website, Haikus au fil des jours, here.
Denis M. Garrison is a working poet, publishing since 1961. He has published two collections of his haiku, Hidden River & Eight Shades of Blue; The Brink at Logan Pond is his collection of free and formal verse. His poetry appears in several anthologies. He posts his own poetry online at his new blog, FlyingFishes, and his personal website, FlyingFishes.net. The owner of Modern English Tanka Press, Denis edits and publishes the print & digital quarterly journal, Modern English Tanka, and publishes poetry collections and anthologies. From 2000-2006, he edited and published Haiku Harvest. He also operates the tanka megasite, TankaCentral.com, and its news blog, TankaNews.com. Denis lives near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland with the beautiful and mysterious Deborah.
Ferris Gilli lives in north Georgia, where she and her husband are avid birders. She is an Associate Editor of the haiku journal The Heron's Nest. Until August 2007, she was editor of “Treetops,” a haiku column in the Internet magazine World Haiku Review.
Her haiku collection Shaped by the Wind was published by Snapshot Press, 2006.
Asimina Hasandra (1972,GREECE).Editor of greek and foreign poetry magazine DELEAR since 2000.[ www.delearpoetry.gr ]. In International Poetry Day [21.3.2006] had an evening of Modern Greek Poetry at Hellenic Center in London.She is an author of 6 books [poems,novel & theatrical monologue].Translated in English and French.She is also a state-Registered Nurse for adults in a military hospital [NIMTS,Athens] & poetry therapist [member of N.A.P.T.] She's travelling a lot,lives and writes in Athens.
David Herrle is founder and editor of SubtleTea. He scribbles.
Eric Houck Jr's haiku journey currently finds him blogging from San Diego.
Keiko Izawa lives in Yokohama, Japan, a port city known for its exotic atmosphere.
Keiko has worked for a variety of companies as a technical translator. She started
writing haiku in November 2004. Before then, she had never written a single haiku,
not even a haiku in Japanese. Writing haiku in English is more comfortable for
Keiko than writing haiku in Japanese. However, she deeply admires the haiku
written by the old masters and modern poets in Japan. Her work has been published
in Haiku Harvest, Simply Haiku, Mainichi Daily News, Roadrunner, Heron's Nest,
Birmingham Words, Haiku Presence, Bottle Rockets, and Red Moon Anthology.
Kirsty Karkow was born in England and grew up between islands in the Caribbean and a working ranch in Arizona. She has had a lot of passions and varied interests;from entomology to dressage horses and sculpture. A son and a daughter grew up in the middle of this. Life is quiet and simple now since she and her husband have moved to the coast of Maine USA, where they live in a Danish cottage. [ Kirsty is a Scottish Gaelic name and Karkow is Danish.] They sail, paddle, garden and read a lot. Haiku, tanka and related forms are a fairly recent enthusiasm but the resulting poems have been published world-wide and won prizes. Kirsty is the vice president of the Tanka Society of America. Her first book, water poems: haiku, tanka and sijo was published by Black Cat Press in 2005. It sold out and a limited second edition was published in 2007. This summer should see the publication of a second book, shorelines: haiku, tanka and haibun.
Bill Kenney is a retired academic who lives in Queens, New York City. He has been writing haiku since one month before his seventy-second birthday. His work has appeared in e-zines, print journals, and anthologies. He is one of the poets featured in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007). He is a bit embarrassed about emerging at his age, but he figures it's better than receding.
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, DORIANNE LAUX's fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States in the previous year and chosen by the Kansas City Star as one of the ten best books of poetry published in 2005. Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, reprinted this year by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994) and Smoke (2000). Red Dragonfly Press will release Superman: The Chapbook,
later this year. Co-author of The Poet's Companion, she's the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poem Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The Nation Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and she's a frequent contributor to Orion and Ms. Magazine. Laux has waited tables and written poems in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Petaluma, California and Juneau, Alaska. In 1994 she moved to Eugene where she's now a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. She lives with her husband, the poet Joseph Millar.
J. Andrew Lockhart: The author of "Tangled in Wisteria," he is a music teacher in Van Buren, Arkansas and a father of four. His work has been published in the United States, Canada and Australia, including Haiku Harvest, Clouds Peak, Stylus Poetry Journal, Wisteria, American Tanka, Fire Pearls, Eucalypt and Modern English Tanka. His work can be seen at
e-mail - jamesalockhart@cox.net
Bobbi Lurie's two poetry collections are Letter From The Lawn (CustomWords, 2006) and The Book I Never Read(CustomWords, 2003). Her work has been published in numerous literary and on-line journals including APR, New American Writing and Shampoo.
Peggy Lyles is an associate editor for The Heron's Nest and on the editorial staff of the Red Moon Anthology. Her most recent book is To Hear the Rain, Brooks Books, 2002:
www.brooksbookshaiku.com/brooksbooks/selectedlyles.html. Peggy and her husband, Bill, live in Tucker, GA, a suburb of Atlanta.
David Matthews is a native of the South Carolina Midlands who now resides in Portland, Oregon. Poems have appeared in Abbey, Chattahoochee Review, Meander: The Journal, Ouroborus, Quill and Parchment, Red River Review, Tryst, and elsewhere. Matthews writes about literature, film, politics and current affairs, and other topics, including from time to time sports, on his blog Memo from the Fringes. He can be reached at myshkin97214@yahoo.com
Origa is a pen-name of Olga Hooper. Native of Siberia, Russia, she now lives in Michigan, USA. Origa is a sumi-e artist and a haiku writer, and she also studies ikebana and ceramic painting. History and socials science honor graduate of the Tyumen State University, and post-graduate school with thesis in Russian history. She writes in Russian and English; translates haikai poetry and related material for Russian and international haiku friends. Origa holds her own biannual international bilingual haiku contest "Calico Cat" , with her original sumi-e as prizes. She won prizes in many international haiku contests, and her works have been published in 8 countries in 9 languages. Her Live Journal serves as a bridge for intercultural communication between haiku and art lovers from different countries, with many haiku-related activities such as haiku parties, workshops, collaborative haiku and tanka writing, haiku books reviews, haiku study, translation parties, etc. One of Origa's haiku has been translated into 44 languages by poets from around the world ( http://origa.livejournal.com/68237.html?nc=390 ). Origa's original paintings and prints are in collections in many countries around the world; she illustrated three magazines; exhibited in virtual and real (Michigan) galleries; she is also one of the resident artists in the Moonset, The newspaper. Some of the major journals her works have been published in, are: World Haiku Review; World Haiku Anthology ( World Haiku Association, Japan); Simply Haiku; Hermitage: A Haiku Journal; Reeds: Contemporary Haiga; Lishanu; LYNX; Modern Haiku; Haigaonline; The Heron's Nest; Yellow Moon; Contemporary Haibun Online; Contemporary Haibun: printed edition; Dasoku; Eucalypt; Moonset; White Lotus; Haikumena; Haiku Stvarnost (Haiku Reality); etc. Origa's web sites and galleries: Live Journal http://origa.livejournal.com/ ; Kankodori http://www.geocities.com/origaboston/ ; Gallery with Origa's sumi-e at http://www.yessy.com/origahaiku/; Gallery Hieroglyph at http://hiero.ru/Origa .
Elisha Porat, the 1996 winner of Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature, has published 17 volumes of fiction and poetry in Hebrew since 1973. His works have appeared in translations in Israel, the United States, Canada and England. Elisha Porat was born in 1938 to a pioneer family in Palestine-Eretz Yisrael. Today Porat still makes his home near the original tent erected by his parents back in the early '30s. In 1956 Porat was drafted into the IDF and fought in three wars: the Six Day War in 1967, the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the War of south Lebanon in 1982. As a lifelong member of his Kibbutz, Porat has worked many years as a farmer as well as a writer. Besides writing, his current endeavors include editorial duties for several literary journals. His translated stories and poems have for years found their way into print in worldwide publications.
K. Ramesh writes haiku, tanka and free verse. His poems have appeared in journals published in India and abroad. Some of his works have been included in the following anthologies:
1. Voices For The Future: A collection of poems brought out by Poetry Society India and British Council Division
2. Wild Flowers, New Leaves: World Haiku Anthology
3. Pegging The Wind Anthology- Red Moon Press
He is the author of a collection of haiku titled Soap Bubbles, published by the Red Moon Press, Virginia, USA. He teaches at The School, KFI, in Chennai, India.
Ray Rasmussen lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His haiku, haiga, haibun and articles have been accepted for publication in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun, Heron's Nest, Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Haigaonline, Contemporary Haibun Online, Roadrunner, Tinywords, Haiku Harvest, The World Haiku Review, Lynx and Ink Sweat & Tears and other venues. Ray designed the Contemporary Haibun Online web site and serves as its technical editor. His web page designs are currently used by Simply Haiku and Roadrunner haiku journals. He has served as haiga editor for Simply Haiku and Haibun Editor for the World Haiku Review. In a previous life, Ray thinks he may have been a university professor, but perhaps it was just a bad dream
Walter Ruhlmann was born in 1974 in Caen, Normandy, France. He currently lives in Le Mans where he works as an English teacher. Walter lived in England from 1995 to 1997 after taking a degree in English at University. He began publishing Mauvaise graine, a literary magazine, in 1996. Back in France, he has carried on publishing and writing mostly poetry, although he has published short stories in several French-language magazines. Mauvaise graine ended in 2000, but evolved in a webzine mgversion2.0>datura in 2002, and is still online at http://mgversion2.free.fr . An English section offers poetry written in English along with a French translation. Walter is the author of several poetry booklets.
Claudette Russell is a former high school English teacher who lives in Goodwin State Forest in northeast Connecticut. She has been writing haiku for almost two years and enjoys the challenge. Her haiku have been published in various print and on-line journals. She also has published haiga in collaboration with her husband.
DANNY CASTILLONES SILLADA is a painter, poet, fictionist, philosopher, critic, musician and performance artist from Mindanao, Philippines. He studied priesthood (Roman Catholic) at the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas and San Carlos Seminary, Philippines, but left his vocation six months before his ordination to the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
Sillada had already published three chapbooks of poems and to date, had launched ten one-man shows as abstract surrealist painter. As artist and literary writer from Mindanao, Sillada has received numerous citations and awards. He is currently working on his three book projects on philosophical essays, collection of prose and journal and a novel due for publication in 2008 and 2009.
Adelaide B. Shaw has been writing haiku, tanka and haibun for several years and has been published widely in print and on-line, in the US and abroad. Her collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, is available at www.modernenglishtankapress.com. Her blog is www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com. When not writing Japenese short poetry, she writes short stories and has been published in a number of journals. She lives with her husband in the small rural community of Millbrook, NY.
Welsh-born composer Hilary Tann lives near the Adirondack Mountains in NY. She is a founding member of the Route 9 Haiku Group which publishes the biannual journal, Upstate Dim Sum. The monthly meetings with Yu Chang, Tom Clausen, and John Stevenson are treasured times of poetry and sharing. As a musician her work is of necessity forward-looking, shaping different futures. Her enjoyment in reading and writing haiku in no small part stems from the fact that haiku train her once more to be “of the moment.” http://www.hilarytann.com
Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives currently in Puchberg, a small village near Vienna, as social-worker, author and passionate traveller and trekker, and writes haiku since approximatley five years.
His work has been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide as The Red Moon Anthology, Acorn, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Paper Wasp, KO, Ginyu, Mainichi Daily News, Haiku heute, Snapshots, Presence, Raw Nervz, Simply Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Bottle Rockets and so on. He received some awards as the First Price at the International Haiku Contest Ludbreg in Croatia in 2004, and the Third Prize at the Kusamakura International Haiku Competition 2005. Editor of the austrian based international online Haiku Magazine "Chrysanthemum", and Associate Editor of the german Webzine "Haiku heute". His homepage can be viewed at: www.bregengemme.com
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 big sky: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2006, Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun, Haiku Presence, Ginyu, World Haiku 2006 and 2007, Simply Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Full Moon, Roadrunner, Mainichi Daily News, and tinywords. New works are due to be published in A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku 5, Modern Haiku and bottle rockets. Tchouhov has played guitar and written music and lyrics for various rock bands and is currently playing with the ethno-rock band Gologan. He is a member of the Association of Bulgarian Writers, the Bulgarian Haiku Club, the Sofia Haiku Club, the Haiku Circle 17th floor, the World Haiku Association and Musicautor.
Yoav J. Tenembaum is Argentinian-born. He has lived in various countries, including Argentina, Israel, Britain, the United States (New York).
He has pursued his academic studies in Israel, at the University of Tel Aviv (BA in History) and in Britain, at Cambridge University (Master in International Relations) and in the University of Oxford (Doctorate in Modern History).
Poems of his have been published in various literary magazines in the United States, Canada, Britain and the Philippines.
Yoav was awarded the Haiku 59th Basho Festival Top Prize in 2005, which is yearly organised by the Basho Memorial Museum in Japan.
A book by Yoav for children, The Planet of Mendaoor, was published in Britain in 1995.
Aristi Trendel writes poetry and fiction. She is assistant professor at the University of Montpellier I. She has published short stories and critical articles. She is Greek but writes in English
Santiago Villafania is a Pangasinan poet based in Manila, Philippines.
Some of his poems have appeared in local and international print and web publications: Balon Silew, AWARD, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, ANI, Philippine Panorama, Sunday Times Magazine, The Heron's Nest, HaikuHut's Short Stuff, Ygdrasil, Circle Magazine, Crimson feet, In Our Own Words 1 & 2, Picolata Review, MindFire, etc.. His poetry collection in Pangasinan language Balikas na Caboloan is among the works published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Writers Series (2005).
Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language. He was awarded the Writer of the Year (2004) by the Ulupan na Pansiansia'y Salitan Pangasinan (Association for the Preservation of the Pangasinan Language) and Award of Merit (2005) by the Association of Writers and Authors for Regional Development (Region I) for his first book, Pinabli tan arum ni'ran Anlong (Beloved and Other Poems) published in 2003.
His second book of poems, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles, is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. He is currently coming out with a chapbook of his poems in English titled Murtami.
He is the owner-editor of The Makata: The Journal of Philippine and International Contemporary Poetry .
Nick Zegarac is a freelance writer/editor and graphics artist. He holds a Masters in Communications and an Honors B.A in Creative Lit from the University of Windsor. He’s been a contributing editor for Black Moss Press and has had two screenplays under consideration in Hollywood. He’s also a regular contributing writer for various online publications, including Mediascreen.com, Subtletea and Banks of the Little Miami. At present he's searching for an agent to represent him. Contact him via email at movieman@sympatico.ca .
