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Michael Dylan Welch

Michael Dylan Welch has written haiku since 1976. He's a longtime vice president of the Haiku Society of America, cofounded Haiku North America in 1991 and the American Haiku Archives in 1996, and founded the Tanka Society of America in 2000. He is editor/publisher of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem (since 1997) and of Press Here haiku and tanka books (since 1989). He previously edited Woodnotes (1989–1997). Michael's haiku and longer poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in fourteen languages, and he's won first prize in the Henderson, Brady, Drevniok, and Tokutomi contests. These invited poems focus on plants and trees of the Pacific Northwest.

Laura Garrison

Laura Garrison grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Maryland with her husband Justin. She attends graduate school in Washington, DC, where she studies nature writing and nineteenth-century American literature. When she is not writing poetry, she can often be found climbing trees or napping on the most comfortable piece of furniture in the room.

Adelaide B. Shaw

Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Millbrook, NY with her husband. Her haiku, tanka and haibun have been published in several journals. Her collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, published by Modern English Tanka Press, received the award for third place in the 2009 Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards. Samples of her work may be seen at www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com/. Adelaide has also had published several short stories.

Dick Whyte

Dick Whyte lives in Wellington, New Zealand with his wife, cartoonist, Robyn Kenealy. Dick became interested in haiku while doing his MA on experimental filmmaker Joanna Paul, after noticing the many connections between experimental film, (meta)physics and haiku structure (through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze). He has previously been published in Simply Haiku, Modern Haiku and Chrysanthemum (among others). Recently Dick Whyte and Laurence Stacey started the new internet journal Haiku News, which they edit (http://www.wayfarergallery.net/haikunews).

Temple Cone

Temple Cone is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy. He received the 2009 Future Cycle Poetry Book Prize for his first book, No Loneliness, and he has published haiku in such journals as Mayfly, Modern Haiku, and Frogpond. He lives in Annapolis, MD, with his wife and daughter.

Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck

Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck continues to live in haiku bliss with haiku recently appearing in Modern Haiku, Acorn Press, Frogpond and Simply Haiku. She was a contributor in DailyHaiku's Cycle 3. Her poetry has been widely published, recently in Vallum. She teaches art and writing workshops, including Advanced Creative Writing at the Minerva Seniors Studies Institute at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton, Alberta. She lives in St. Albert and at her Pembina River Retreat where she continues to cultivate a haiku-mind.

Joanne Morcom

Joanne Morcom is a poet, writer and social worker in Calgary, Alberta. Her latest poetry book, About the Blue Moon, is available from magpie productions in Edmonton, Alberta. Visit her at www.joannemorcom.com.

Nicole Pakan, is the co-editor of DailyHaiku and associate art editor for DailyHaiga. Nicole is an active member of the Edmonton poetry and art communities as a poet, painter, candlesti... er... um, printmaker, potter and photographer. By day she masquerades as the communication manager for a non-profit organization; by night she can be caught flirting with words—frequenting the Raving Poets and Stroll of Poets readings. Nicole participates annually in the Roar Spoken Word Festival, the Edmonton Poetry Festival, the Edmonton Stroll of Poets Haven Series, and the Cortex multimedia exhibit. Her recent publication credits include filling Station, Other Voices, the Stroll of Poets Anthology, and Notebook Magazine. She may be contacted online at DailyHaiku; you can find more information on Nicole's recent work at: www.nicolepakan.ca.

Patrick M. Pilarski, is the co-editor of DailyHaiku and associate poetry editor for DailyHaiga. His first full collection of haiku, haibun, and tanka, Huge Blue (2009), was recently released by Leaf Press, and he is the author of one chapbook: Five Weeks (2007). Patrick’s work recently appeared in The Antigonish Review, Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, contemporary haibun, and Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009). Patrick may be contacted at DailyHaiku; more information on Patrick's work can be found online at www.pilarski.ca.

Michael Gravel, Past-Editor and Founder, DailyHaiku, is a writer based in Edmonton, Alberta. He's a founder and the frontman of Edmonton’s Raving Poets, and co-founder of The Roar Spoken Word Festival. He is a freelance writer, web designer, and professional presenter. In December 2007, his life was nearly ended by a pulmonary embolism. In response he authored the chapbook, The Fast Places (Red Nettle, 2008). He lives in a wee house with his wife, stepdaughter, and two incorrigible hounds. He lives to write, code, and spend time with his family.