Haiga Gallery 18.2

Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor

About the Artists

Pris Campbell’s haiga, haiku, haibun, free verse, and tanka have appeared in numerous print and online journals.  She also has placed or had honorable mention in several competitions, including first place in the Marlene Mountain and the Sanford Goldstein 2021 contests, and has published nine books/chapbooks. A former clinical psychologist until sidelined by ME/CFS in 1990, she makes her home with her husband in Southeast Florida.

Elizabeth Crocket is a Canadian poet and author who has haiga featured in the Haiku Foundation Haiga Galleries. She has had two books shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. Her latest book, Lake Holiday: Haiku for Kids and Kids at Heart, is now available on Amazon.

Gerald Friedman grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and now teaches physics and math in northern New Mexico.  His poetry, including haiku and haiga, has appeared in various journals.

A native of Tennessee, Dan Hardison now lives in coastal North Carolina. While he has worked with art and photography for 40 years, his journey writing short-form poetry began in 2009. As a visual artist, he developed an immediate interest in haiga for its ability to combine images with words. His work can be found at his website, Windscape Studio, and his blog, Some Tomorrow’s Morning.

John Hawkhead has been writing haiku and producing haiga for over 20 years, with work published all over the world. Apart from cho, you can see his haiga at Daily Haiga, Modern Haiga, Wales Haiku Journal, Human/Kind, and many other publications. He was recently the runner-up in the 2021 Martin Lucas Haiku Award contest.

Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet. Her newest chapbook, Talking Me Off the Roof will be published by Kelsay Books at the end of 2022. Visit her at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1.

Oscar Luparia is an Italian trade unionist whose main passions are haiku, mountains, and photography. Some of his poems have been published in international journals and websites, including The Mainichi, Failed Haiku, Le Lumachine, Wales Haiku Journal, Les Fleurs ne dorment jamais, DailyHaiga, Incense Dreams, and Chrysanthemum. His haiku ebooks are available at issuu.com/oscarluparia.

Darlene O’Dell lives in the mountains of North Carolina and is the author of The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven and Sites of Southern Memory.

Simar Onkar is a Chandigarh, India–based applied psychologist in private practice. He helps people overcome issues in their careers, education, relationships, marriage, parenting, and personality. Fine art, photography, rare books, classical music, and nature walks are some of the disorders from which he himself.

Dian Duchin Reed is an award-winning writer whose poems, articles, essays, and photographs have appeared in many publications. Her books include Medusa Discovers Styling Gel (poetry) and Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Ancient Wisdom (translated from the Chinese). Learn more at dianduchinreed.com.

Christopher Seep is a retired medical professional, husband, and grandfather. For as long as he can remember, he has cast words on fallow fields hoping for rain and sun. The harvest varies, but the anticipation remains constant. 

Adelaide B. Shaw has been creating Japanese poetic forms for fifty years and has been published in several journals. Her three collections of haiku, An Unknown Road, The Distance I’ve Come, and Travel Souvenirs, are available on Amazon. Examples of her published work are on her blog, White Petals.

Neena Singh lives in Chandigarh, India. Her haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, cherita, and haiga have appeared in online and print journals. A former banker, she now runs a non-profit for the health and education of underprivileged children. She has authored two books of poetry, Whispers of the Soul and One Breath Poetry. 

Debbie Strange is an internationally published short-form poet, haiga artist, and photographer whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. She is honored to be the recipient of the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award.

Jonah Nasara Tahiru is a poet, author (Felicity Bentely and the Spiky Owl), a certified Christian life coach, a master’s graduate in digital marketing and business, a lyricist, a literary captain, and a Pentecostal by faith from Ghana.

Romano Zeraschi lives in Italy, between Parma, Bardi, and Cinqueterre/5 Lands. His haiku, haiga, and haibun have been published in many international magazines and anthologies, including one manga.