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Temple Cone

Temple Cone is an assistant professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy. He has published four chapbooks of poetry—Radiolaria, Quandary Farm, A Father's Story, and Considerations of Earth and Sky. He has received a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Poetry and the John Lehman Award in Poetry from Wisconsin Academy Review. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife and daughter.

Catherine McLaughlin

Catherine McLaughlin brings her photographic eye to the writing of haiku. For her, a haiku is a snapshot of a moment. Catherine's poetry has been published in many collections and specialty publications. One of her haiku won publication in Cold Morning, the 1997 Herb Barrett Award, an international haiku anthology. Catherine has toured parts of central and south Alberta with both her poetry and her photography. She lives in the Peace River country in northern Alberta.

Joanne Morcom

Joanne Morcom is a Calgary writer whose haiku, tanka and haibun have appeared in numerous print and electronic publications, such as Eleventh Transmission, Frogpond, Gusts:Contemporary Tanka, The Haiku Anthology, The Haiku Hundred, Haiku Canada Newsletter and Review, Raw Nervz Haiku, Ribbons, Scifaikuest, Simply Haiku, Tanka Splendor Awards and tinywords. Her scifaiku chapbook A Nameless Place is available from Sam's Dot Publishing. Her poetry postcards and broadside are available from pooka press. Visit her at http://www.joannemorcom.com/

Kamal Parmar

Kamal Parmar, an emerging writer, has been passionately involved in writing since the last ten years. Having done her Masters in English as well as in Home Economics, she worked as a free lancing journalist in weekly newspapers and journals. Her genre is poetry and she has a few books to her credit. She has a number of poetry publications in reputed Canadian literary journals and magazines. She is a member of a several writers’ organizations and Writers Guilds and also a manuscript evaluator in one of them. She has recently been awarded a Honorable Mention for one of her haiku entries, in Toronto.

Jadon Rempel

Jadon Rempel is a writer, actor, musician and paint salesman with a long-standing love and respect for the art of Haiku. He uses it as a medium for meditation and as an antidote for writer's block. Jadon lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with his wife, dog and newborn daughter.

Richard Stevenson

Richard Stevenson teaches at Lethbridge College in Southern Alberta. His most recent haikai work is collected in the collections Hot Flashes (2001), A Charm of Finches (2004), both from Ekstasis Editions, and in Flicker At The Fascia (Serengeti Press, 2005) and Parrot With Tourette's (Black Moss Press, 2006). He has two new collections forthcoming, including The Emerald Hour, recently accepted for publication by Ekstasis Editions.

Nicole Pakan, Co-Editor, DailyHaiku, 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.

Patrick M. Pilarski, Co-Editor, DailyHaiku, lives in Edmonton with his oolong tea and far too many tea pots. Patrick's poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan, including PRISM international, The Antigonish Review, Other Voices, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online, Roadrunner, Ribbons, Asahi Haikuist Network, Chrysanthemum, Haibun Today, White Lotus, Wisteria, Modern English Tanka, broadcast on CBC Radio One, and on the CD Raving Poets - Remixed. His first full-length collection of short-form poetry, Huge Blue (2009), is forthcoming from Leaf Press, and he is the author of one chapbook of experimental haiku and haibun: Five Weeks (2007). Patrick may be contacted online at DailyHaiku or (for non-DailyHaiku matters) at 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.