Haiga Gallery 18.3
Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
About the Artists
Peggy Hale Bilbro and her husband divide their time between Huntsville, Alabama, and Guardia Sanframondi, Italy. Her poetry reflects her life-long interest in the large and small miracles of the world, from dust bunnies to stardust, from mouse holes to black holes. She finds pleasure in the creative challenge of translating those miracles into poetry.
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.
Ram Chandran is a corporate lawyer and a freelance journalist. A haijin since 2020, he has written more than 1,200 haiku, haibun, senryu, tanka, rengay, and haiga/photo haiku. Many of his works have been published in various prestigious print and online haiku journals.
Colleen M. Farrelly is a poet from Miami, Florida, who writes about her life so far (mostly haibun). Colleen is a mathematician by day working on a first book about topology, geometry, and data. She likes swimming, surfing, and science fiction.
Katja Fox lives in Cambridge, England. Her poems have been published online and in print, including Prune Juice, Akitsu, Trash Panda, Blithe Spirit, Failed Haiku, Presence, Scarlet Dragonfly, Cold Moon Journal, Hedgerow, and Kingfisher. Katja also enjoys hiking and all types of pickled herring. More of her artistic work can be seen at https://www.katjafox.com.
Born in New Zealand, Jenny Fraser of Riverweaver is a nature lover, musician, artist, and poet who lives beside the Pacific Ocean in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand. Her haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and haibun have been published in New Zealand and international journals.
John Hawkhead is a globally published writer of short-form poetry and an illustrator who has won many international haiku contests. His books Bone Moon and Small Shadows from Alba Publishing are available from John via Instagram: @HaikuHawk, Twitter: @HawkheadJohn, and Facebook.
Leanne Jaeger lives in Tasmania, Australia, and her poetry, haiku and haiga have been published in various print and online journals. She is also passionate about nature, music, and painting.
Barbara Kaufmann, a native New Yorker, is a retired nurse whose haiku, tanka, haibun, and haiga have been published online and in print journals. Her haiga, several of which have won awards, have been shown on the Japanese television show “NHK Haiku Masters.” In addition to writing, Barbara’s hobbies include hiking, gardening, photography. and a regular yoga practice. Her website is wabisabipoet.wordpress.com.
Lavana Kray is from Romania. Over the years, she has won various prizes in haiku and tanka competitions, and her work is widely published. The World Haiku Association awarded her the title of Master Haiga Artist. She currently serves as editor of haiga at Cattails (UHTS). She has published three photo-haiku books and one tankart collection. See more of her work at https://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.com.
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.
Seretta Martin is a poet, artist, teacher, and managing editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. Her works have appeared in various anthologies over twenty-five years. She holds an MFA and teaches poetry. Her second book, Holographic Reality, is forthcoming. Seretta is a founding member of Haiku San Diego and lives in the foothills with her son and “Itty Bitty,” his black cat.
Darlene O’Dell is the author of the chapbook Raised in the World of Everyday Poets (Yavanika Press, 2022), The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven (Church Publishing, 2014), and Sites of Southern Memory (University of Virginia Press, 2001). She teaches online writing workshops from western North Carolina.
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.
Susan Lee Roberts has recently ventured into haiga and has discovered a new level of fun in combining her art with haiku. A haiku student of about seven years, she hosts a weekly haiku study group, has edited the group’s anthology, Fun Friday Haiku, and attends several haiku critique groups. Her haiku have been published in Frogpond, on The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue, and in Song of the San Joaquin.
New to Greensboro, North Carolina, Alexis Rotella has been writing Japanese poetry forms in English since the late 1970s. Two of her recent books, Scratches on the Moon (haibun) and the anthology Unsealing Our Secrets (MeToo Stories) earned Touchstone book awards. Her latest anthology, Grandmother’s Pearls, is available on Amazon/Kindle, as are a number of her books.
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.
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 for Prairie Interludes.
Maria Tosti is an Italian poet from Perugia. Her passions are writing, photography, and drawing. She enjoys visual art and she is also a video maker. Her works have appeared in various art and literary publications as well as online journals. Her first sylloge is a multilingual book. Learn more at http://mariatosti.wixsite.com/mariatosti.
Michael Dylan Welch wrote his first haibun in 1989. See http://www.graceguts.com/haibun for more. He lives near Seattle and ran the first haibun contest in English in 1996.
John Zheng is the author of Delta Sun, a collection of haiku and photographs, and The Dog Years of Reeducation (Madville Publishing, 2023). His photographs or photoku have appeared in various journals, including The Southern Quarterly, Arkansas Review, Mississippi Folklife, and Haiga in Focus.