Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
Haiga Gallery 21.2
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About the Artists
Wanda Amos lives in the beachside village of Old Bar, Australia, which provides some of the inspiration for her two interests, haiku and photography. She has been published in several blogs, forums, and anthologies. Find more on Instagram: wandas_wandarings.
Cynthia Anderson has published 13 poetry collections, most recently The Far Mountain (Wise Owl Publications, 2024) and Arrival (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023). She has lived in California for over 40 years. See more of her work at www.cynthiaandersonpoet.com.
Gavin Austin lives in Sydney, Australia. Gavin writes short fiction, short plays, and poetry. His work has appeared in many Australian and international publications.
Graham Bates is a chronically ill poet and artist living in his town of birth, Timaru, Aotearoa. His work has been published in various journals, both print and online. He is currently editor-in-chief, web master, designer and publisher of the NZ-based international haiku journal Kokako.
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 several books published by Ginninderra Press, including This Peace (2020) and Horizon (2023). She collaborated with Marianne Paul in 2023 to write a chapbook of one-line haiku, Damselflies (Paper Heron Press).
Pris Campbell’s work has appeared in numerous print and online journals. She’s placed or had an honorable mention in several competitions, including first place in the Marlene Mountain and the Sanford Goldstein 2021 contests, and 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.
Michelle Farrell is a multimedia artist and poet living in New Zealand. She has recently developed a keen interest in haiga as a way of combining her imagery and words into new further layered creations. Nature, family, ponderings about the way of things, as well as creative explorations fill many of her days.
Dennis Owen Frohlich is a professor of media and journalism at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. He writes poetry to keep his heart, mind, and spirit fresh. His poems have been published in the Asahi Haikuist Network, Akitsu Quarterly, Altered Reality Magazine, The Bamboo Hut, cattails, Consilience, and Failed Haiku, among others. See more at http://dennisfrohlich.com.
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.
A professional filmmaker and photographer, Stéphane Granzotto has made over 40 documentaries for French and foreign TV. His awards include the Palme d’Argent at the Festival Mondial de l’Image Sous-Marine, First Prize at the Festival International du Film de Montagne des Diablerets, and Grand Prize at Belgrade Film Festival. www.stephanegranzotto.com
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.
Anju Kishore is a Pushcart Prize nominee and an award-winning editor of numerous free-verse anthologies. Author of …and I Stop to Listen (2018) and My Conversations with God, Life, and Death (2025), she has also dabbled in online theatre and is currently exploring Japanese forms of poetry.
Lavana Kray lives in Romania. Her work has been widely published, and her haiga has appeared in exhibitions organized by the World Haiku Association in Japan and in Italy. The Laval Literary Society from Canada awarded her the André-Jacob-Entrevous Prize 2023, for a literary text (haiku) combined with an artistic visual. She serves as haiga editor at cattails.
Maryam Mermey is a haiku poet and international presenter. Akiba Mermey is a nature photographer and tai chi teacher. Together they create haiga, which have appeared in such publications as Wales Haiku Journal, cattails, and cho. They recently were the featured artists on the Haiku Foundation website. They also exhibit their work throughout Maine.
A retired scientist and educator, Mark Meyer has been a visual artist for almost forever. He lives in his head in the middle of Lake Washington and loves dogs, guitars, the moon, Japan, ales, and sundry other diversions. His artwork is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle and is in multiple collections. He’s published two books and many short-form works.
Gareth Nurden was born in Newport, Wales, in 1988 and has been writing poetry since his teenage years. He has more recently undertaken the writing and publishing of haiku and senryu, and has published more than 100 pieces in more than 50 journals and websites worldwide.
Darlene O’Dell, a resident of Asheville, North Caroline, is the author of The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven (Church Publishing, 2024), Raised in the World of Everyday Poets (Yavanika Press, 2022) and Sites of Southern Memory (University Press of Virginia, 2003). Her poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Presence, Frogpond, Sonic Boom, Wales Haiku Journal, and MacQueen’s Quinterly, among others.
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.
Dian Duchin Reed is an award-winning writer, essayist, and photographer. Her books include Medusa Discovers Styling Gel (poetry, Finishing Line Press, 2009) Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Timeless Wisdom (translations, Humanitas Press, 2016), and Moonglow (haiga, haibun, and haiku, Red Moon Press, 2025) Learn more at dianduchinreed.com.
Alexis Rotella’s collection Milkweed (Brooks Books, 2024), which contains haiku and senryu from 1979 to 2024, received a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation. She has published 41 books and her work has been widely anthologized. Alexis lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her ginger boy cat, Colby.
Janet Ruth is a New Mexico ornithologist whose writing focuses on connections with nature. She has recent poems in cattails, Wales Haiku Journal, Modern Haiku, Under the Bashō, and Haiku Canada Review. Her book Feathered Dreams: Celebrating Birds in Poems, Stories & Images was a finalist for the 2018 NM/AZ Book Awards. redstartsandravens.com
A stay-at-home mom, Nalini Shetty discovered Japanese short forms in 2017 and quickly developed a deep passion for them. Her work, celebrated for its simplicity and emotional resonance, has been featured in respected haiku journals. She approaches each piece with instinct, blending minimalism and mood to create meaningful connections.
Neena Singh is a Touchstone Award–shortlisted haiku poet from Chandigarh, India and an editor for The Wise Owl, Triveni, and Rhyvers. Author of three poetry books, she has won numerous awards. Neena runs a non-profit for underprivileged children. She also spreads awareness about haiku in the educational and professional fora of the city.
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 was the recipient of the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award for her full-length haiku collection Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024), which was shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation’sTouchstone Distinguished Book Award.
Mark Teaford is an anthropologist and anatomist whose haiku, senryu, and tanka have appeared online and in print. He also likes to combine photos and poems. He marvels at the beauty of the natural world while trying to make sense of what we’re doing to it (and to each other).
Jaundré van Breda is a poet, graphic designer, and visual artist whose recent books include two independently published haiku collections, To Follow the Rain (2025) and When Letting Go Is Just Another Way to Hold On (2024). He lives in South Africa. To learn more, visit swallowingpaint.com.
Richard West was Regents’ Professor of Classics in a large public university and has published numerous books, as well as hundreds of articles and poems. His haiku have appeared in many literary journals. He now enjoys varied activities including learning to cook and attempting to add flavor to his poems.