Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
Haiga Gallery 21.3
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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. He writes short fiction, short plays, and poetry, and his work has appeared in many Australian and international publications.
After 20+ years of haiku and tanka, Maxianne Berger began exploring haiga early in the Covid pandemic. To learn to improve her images, she later joined the Montreal Camera Club. Her fifth book, You Are Here: Haiku and Senryu (2025), was recently published by Yarrow Press.
E. L. Blizzard lives in the U. S. South. Her writing and images can be found in many journals. Some of her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and anthologized. For many years, she worked in advocacy serving immigrants and refugees, survivors of intimate partner violence, and those experiencing homelessness.
Baskin Cooper is a poet, visual artist, and multidisciplinary creator based in Chatham County, North Carolina. He holds a PhD in psychology and previously lived in Cork, Ireland, experiences that often shape his explorations of folklore, lyricism, and personal history. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The Avocet, Ink & Oak, Smols Poetry Journal, Verse-Virtual, and ONE ART.
Anannya Dasgupta is a poet, photographer, and artist who lives in Chennai, India. Her haiku, haibun and haiga have appeared or are forthcoming in Sonic Boom, Right Hand Pointing, Failed Haiku, Prune Juice Journal, and Daily Haiga. She directs the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea University.
Billie Dee is the former U.S. National Library Service Poet Laureate. A painter and graphic artist trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, she earned her doctorate at UCI. Her work has won numerous awards and appears widely in print and online. She lives in the Chihuahua Desert with her family and a betta fish named Ramón.
Michelle Farrell is a multimedia artist & poet living in New Zealand. She enjoys combining her artwork and words into new layered creations via haiga. Nature, family, ponderings about the way of things, as well as 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.”
A lecturer of English from Slovakia, Denisa Hanšutová has been trying her hand at senryu and haiga since November 2024.
John Hawkhead has been producing haiku, haiga, and haibun for over 30 years, with more than 2,000 works published worldwide. His book Bone Moon won third place in the 2023 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards.
A New England native, Peter Jastermsky lives among the Joshua trees in Southern California. He is the author of twelve books of haiku-based work and says his mind is “a storehouse of vast and useless information.” To date, he’s never forgotten a song lyric. Learn more at peterjastermsky.com.
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.
Yvette Nicole Kolodji is a Southern California poet and artist. She is the Southern California Haiku Study Group moderator and the Haiku Poets of Northern California membership secretary. Her haiku has been published in many journals and her artwork and haiga can be found in various galleries.
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.
Gregory Longenecker’s haiga tends to be off-center, not showing the object too overtly, more often hinting at it. He’s won many awards for his haiku, including a Touchstone Award, and considers haiga a second career in the world of haiku.
Oscar Luparia (born in Vercelli, Italy, in 1956) is a trade unionist. Mountains, photography, and haiku are his main passions. His work has appeared internationally in journals such as The Mainichi, Failed Haiku, Le Lumachine, Wales Haiku Journal, and Daily Haiga. He has also produced several digital collections, all available for free at https://archive.org/details/@oscar_luparia.
Annette Makino is an artist and haiku poet whose poems have won Touchstone, Henderson, Brady, and Porad awards. Her book, Water and Stone: Ten Years of Art and Haiku, was honored in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards. She offers her haiga and other art through Makino Studios (makinostudios.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” after hearing a talk by haiku master Lee Gurga. He has since published his haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, and haiga in numerous journals.
Jenny Polstra lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand and is a published Japanese short-form poet. She is a nature lover and conservationist. You will often find her wandering along west coast beaches with her keeshond Bodhi.
Padma Priya is from Hyderabad, India. She ventured into haiku two years ago. and since then her haiku, haibun, haiga, and tanka have been published in popular haiku online journals. Her haiga secured honourable mention In the ninth annual Jane Reichhold Competition held by the journal Failed Haiku. She wishes to write poetry that is meaningful and deep.
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan moonlights as an award-winning copywriter by day, daylights as an award-wanting poet by night, and sandwiches peer counseling for suicide prevention in between. His haiku and haibun have been published in GloMag, Whispers, ardea, Ershik, Miriam’s Well, cho, A Hundred Gourds, Shamrock, cattails, Chrysanthemum, World Haiku Review, and Issa’s Untidy Hut.
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), Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Ancient Wisdom (translated from the Chinese), and Moonglow (haibun, haiga, and haiku, published by Red Moon Press). Learn more at dianduchinreed.com.
Margaret Ryan’s recent haiku can be found at OLLI Connects (University of South Florida) and her poetry and flash fiction in The Ekphrastic Review online journal and its print anthology, The Memory Palace.
A resident of Alaska since 1981, Bonnie J Scherer originally hails from Wisconsin. Once she discovered the joy of writing Japanese-style poetry a few years ago, she was hooked. It has been her honor to have haiga, haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and more published in venues and platforms throughout the world.
Slawa Sibiga is a haiku poet and haiga artist from Poland. She is the author of four haiku books and co-author of fifteen anthologies, including three international volumes. She publishes in Polish and international journals such as Senryu To. Her haiga appear in Daily Haiga, Modern Haiku, Failed Haiku, and Under the Basho.
George Skane was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was introduced to haiku and senryu by his brother Richard, and his interest was piqued by his love of nature and mountaineering. He is a retired teacher, having served 51 years in the Winthrop Public School System in Massachusetts.
Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist. Her haiku collection Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024) received third-place honours in the Haiku Society of America’s 2025 Merit Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation’s 2024 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. See https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/.
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).
Lucky Triana is a haiku lover and learner, living in Malang, Indonesia. To her, learning haiku, haiga, and other related forms is like learning life at its core.
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.
Arthur Uden lives in Aotearoa/New Zealandand is a wildlife and nature photographer. He seeks to capture life from the shades of colours and the textures found beneath nature’s canopies, and on the forest floor.
Stephanie Zepherelli, a California native and former dance professor, has been living on Oahu for the past 40 years and is widely published. She has a drawer of mismatched spoons and a tribe of Madagascar geckos.