Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
Haiga Gallery 20.3
About the Artists
Marilyn Ashbaugh is a poet, nature photographer, and organic gardener. She is widely published in journals and anthologies featuring Japanese short-form poetry.
Montrealer Maxianne Berger started to focus on Japanese genres at the turn of the millennium. After twenty some years of haiku, tanka, and the occasional haibun, she ventured into haiga in early 2021. Alongside French and English, photography has become her other language.
Pris Campbell has published 10 books/ chapbooks of free verse and one book of tanka. She’s won multiple honors, including first place in the 2021 Sanford Goldstein and Marlene Mountain contests. A former clinical psychologist, sailor, and bicyclist, she was sidelined by a neuroimmune illness in 1990 and lives a quieter life now in South Florida. www.poeticinspire.com
Michelle Farrell is a multimedia artist and poet living in New Zealand. She recently developed a keen interest in haiga as a way of combining her imagery and words into new layered creations. Nature, ponderings about the way of things, and creative explorations fill many of her days.
Jenny Fraser of Riverweaver—nature lover, musician, artist, and poet—lives beside the Pacific Ocean in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand. She began to write haiku in 2010, and her haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, and haibun have been published internationally. Her latest love is “singing rounds and penny whistling along the seashore.”
Pamela Garry took up watercolor painting in her retirement, thanks to her daughter’s encouragement and wonderful teachers— June Webster and Robert Noreika. She fell into haiku during the pandemic. She especially enjoys the inspiration and camaraderie of The Haiku Foundation website. She is tethered by her family and friends, tai chi practice and walking, her synagogue, daily routines, and surprises.
John Hawkhead has been producing haiku, haiga, and haibun for over 25 years, with more than 1,500 works published worldwide. His book Bone Moon won third place in the 2023 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards.
Oscar Luparia (born in Vercelli, Italy, in 1956) is a trade unionist. Mountains, photography, and haiku are his main passions. Some of his poems have been published in international journals and websites. So far, he has written six haiku collections, all available for free at https://archive.org/details/@oscar_luparia.
Anthony Lusardi lives in Rockaway, New Jersey. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, The Cicada’s Cry, Frogpond, hedgerow, and bottle rockets. He has four haiku chapbooks, his latest titled raindrops from yesterday. Copies can be purchased by email at lusardi133@gmail.com.
Annette Makino is an award-winning haiku poet and artist based in Arcata, California, who combines paintings and collages with her poems. Her work regularly appears in the leading haiku journals and anthologies. Through her art business, Makino Studios, she shares her haiga, cards, calendars, and books. www.makinostudios.com
Maryam Mermey is a haiku poet and dancer. Akiba Mermey is a nature photographer and tai chi teacher. Together they create haiga, which they enjoy sharing through publication in the Wales Haiku Journal, cattails, and contemporary haibun online. They also exhibit their work throughout Maine. Maryam received a commendation in the 2022 Martin Lucas Award Contest.
Lorraine A Padden is a Touchstone Award–winning poet whose honors also include prizes from Tricycle Magazine, the Haiku Society of America, the Tokutomi International Haiku Competition, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Upwelling, her first collection of haiku and related short forms, was published by Red Moon Press in 2022. Find more at lorrainepadden.com.
Penelope (Pene) Padden was an award-winning multimedia artist specializing in woodblock, linocut, and intaglio printmaking. She was also a paramedic certified in Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support and a consultant on best practices for Alzheimer’s management and end-of-life care. She passed away from metastatic breast cancer in 2022. Her sister, Lorraine, is honored to incorporate Pene’s artwork into her haiga practice.
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.
Since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at 49, Tim Roberts tries to live a contemplative life of creativity that invites happenstance and playfulness … and he fails, but loves it. He’s hooked on haiku, haiga, and visual art, which bring him fulfillment and fun. He lives in Kapiti, New Zealand.
Alexis Rotella lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her ginger boy cat, Colby.
Nalini Shetty is a stay-at-home mom who writes Japanese short forms. She is published regularly in haikuKATHA, Haiku Dialogue, and other known journals, and is an active member at Triveni Haikai India, where she workshops with masters and fellow writers.
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.
Luminita Suse is a computer scientist living in Ottawa, Canada, whose haiku, haiga, and tanka have been published worldwide. She is the author of two tanka collections: A Thousand Fireflies / Mille Lucioles (2011) and Winter Fire (2016), both published in Canada by Éditions des petits nuages. Her awards include a Sakura Award in the 2021 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest.
C.X. Turner (she/they) is a UK poet and writer whose solo debut collection, evergreen, is available from Alba Publishing. As co-editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, they keep busy with editing and writing when not doing their day job as a social worker. They often go by the name of Luci.