Haiga Gallery 20.1
Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
About the Artists
Emma Alexander Arthur is a Scottish-Norwegian artist and writer who loves to explore nature. It is nature’s beauty and wonder that inspires her to create haiga. Emma has studied graphic design and sumi-e brush painting and is a certified teacher. She mainly uses ink, watercolours, photography and digital techniques to create her art.
Robyn Cairns experiences great joy in the challenge and love of writing short-form poetry to express both her emotional and her sensory connections to the world. She’s had two haiku chapbooks published by Ginninderra Press, This Peace (2020) and Horizon (2023), and she collaborated with Marianne Paul in 2023 to write Damselflies (Paper Heron Press).
Ana Drobot was included in Haiku Euro Top between 2015 – 2021 and again in 2023. She has published four haiku books in Romania: Japanese Thoughts (2016), Walks (2017), Towards Japan (2020), and Whisper in the Alleys (2020).
Robert Erlandson has published his work in contemporary haibun online, Haigaonline, Daily Haiga, failed haiku, Frogpond, Bones, Cattails, Ribbons, The Heron’s Nest, and Prune Juice. His two latest books, AWE and Together: Haiga Reflections of Humanity, are available on Amazon. See more on his website, https://www.circlepublications.net.
Katja Fox is a poet and visual artist from the United Kingdom. Her work can be found in leading poetry journals online and in print, as well as in her new poetry collection ….and out of nowhere. She loves hiking and listening to the red grouse in the Scottish mountains.
Jenny Fraser of Riverweaver—nature lover, musician, artist, and poet—lives beside the Pacific Ocean in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand. Jenny began to write haiku in 2010, and her haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, and haibun have published internationally. Her latest love is “singing rounds and penny whistling along the seashore.”
Richard Grahn is a retired, full-time artist highly concerned with global issues. His abstract art frequently draws from nature, often featuring one of his favorite subjects, trees. He is currently working on a project to raise awareness of social and environmental issues which can be found at abstractaphy.org.
Evonny Harker lives in Canada. She enjoys painting, particularly with watercolours. Her hobbies, besides art, include dance and singing—she recently played Gretl in Drayton Theatre’s production of The Sound of Music.
Scott Holmes is a semi-retired independent investor living mostly in rural Wisconsin and Northern California. Though he’s been writing haiku and related forms since the 1980s, he’s only recently begun to share his work. He was awarded first place in the recent Jane Reichhold Haiga Contest.
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, her hobbies include hiking, gardening, photography and yoga. Her website is wabisabipoet.wordpress.com.
Marianne Paul’s happy obsessions include haiku and related poetic forms, book arts and bookbinding, easy kayaking, shade gardening, and back porch birdwatching. Her chapbook Body Weight: A Collection of Haiku and Art won the inaugural Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award.
A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Curt Pawlisch began to read and write poetry in high school. In retirement from his legal career, he has returned to his ”first love.” Influenced by a talk by haiku master Lee Gurga, he’s published numerous haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and haiga. He was also featured in a Haiku Pea Podcast, “Haibun with a Difference.”
Geethanjali Rajan teaches Japanese and English in Chennai, India. She is the author of a book of haikai poetry, longing for sun longing for rain (Red River, 2023), and co-author, with Sonam Chhoki, of the e-book Unexpected Gift (Éditions des petits nuages, Canada, 2021). She edits haiku at cattails.
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 Timeless Wisdom (translated from the Chinese). Learn more at dianduchinreed.com.
Susan Lee Roberts 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, Song of the San Joaquin, and on The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue.
Alexis Rotella has been writing Japanese poetry forms in English since the late 1970s. Two 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.
Sayantani Roy writes from the Seattle area and has placed work in Book of Matches, Gone Lawn, Heavy Feather Review, Panoplyzine, TIMBER, and elsewhere. Recently her artwork was chosen as the cover art for haikuNetra. Find her on Instagram: @sayan_tani_r.
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.
Shloka Shankar is a poet and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, she is the founding editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint, Yavanika Press. Her debut haiku collection, The Field of Why, was shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards 2022.
Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist 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 her full-length haiku collection Random Blue Sparks, forthcoming.
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta is passionate about the haikai forms. To one day write like the great Japanese masters is a life-long goal for him. His haiku, senryu and haiga appeared in leading journals and also won awards in international contests. He is the founding editor of Haiku Seed Journal.
Corine Timmer is a visual artist, writer, publisher, award-winning haiku poet, and street-dog advocate. She has published six haiku anthologies keyed to the signs of the Chinese zodiac, and is a member of the British and American haiku societies and various online children’s literature groups. She lives in rural Portugal between the sea and the Algarvean hills.
C.X. Turner lives and works in the Midlands, UK. She is the co-editor of Wales Haiku Journal and a social worker. She is the co-author, with James Welsh, of the short-poem collection Building Sandcastles, which was published in 2023 and is available on Amazon.
William Vlach’s haiga, haibun and poetry have been published in the U.S. and the U.K. Other publications include a book of satiric prose poems, The Sagacity of the Nose, westerns, historical fiction, and essays. When not writing, he practices clinical psychology in San Francisco.
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.