Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
Haiga Gallery 22.2
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About the Artists
Poet and psychic artist Melanie Alberts’ first haibun appeared in cho 3.2 in 2007. Her haiga is featured in two Haiku Foundation galleries, and she is editor for the inaugural Haiku Girl Summer haiga week. Follow her on Instagram @clair.circles.spirit.art.
Gavin Austin lives in Sydney, Australia. His work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, been broadcast on Australian Community Radio, produced for play festivals, and been successful in numerous writing competitions. He also enjoys exhibiting art and has received awards for his photography.
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.
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 and most recent book, You Are Here: Haiku and Senryu (2025), was published by Yarrow Press.
Robyn Cairns finds immense joy in writing short-form poetry. She’s published two chapbooks, The Drifting and In Transit (both in 2016), as well as two longer collections, This Peace (2020) and Horizon (2023), all with Ginninderra Press. In 2023, she and Marianne Paul co-wrote a monoku chapbook, Damselflies (Paper Heron Press). Her latest book, Soft, was self-published in 2025.
Billie Dee is the former Poet Laureate of the U.S. National Library Service. A retired physician, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the mid-1960s and earned her medical degree from UC Irvine. She writes in several genres, although primarily Japaniform poetry. A native Californian, she now divides her time between the Pacific Northwest and New Mexico.
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.
Dan Hardison is a writer and artist living in Wilmington, North Carolina. His illustrated self-published book, Quietude, is available from Lulu Press. His work can be found at his website Windscape Studio, his blog Some Tomorrow’s Morning, and @windscapestudio.
Anju Kishore is a Touchstone Award shortlister and an award-winning editor of numerous free-verse anthologies. Formerly a finance professional, …and I Stop to Listen (2018) and My Conversations with God, Life, and Death (2025) are her solo collections of free-verse poems. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies.
Lavana Kray lives in Romania. Her haiga has appeared in exhibitions organized by the World Haiku Association in Japan and in Italy, and the Laval Literary Society from Canada awarded her the André-Jacob-Entrevous Prize 2023. She has published five photo-haiku books, one tankart collection, and a photo-haibun book. She serves as haiga editor at cattails. See ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com.
Maryam & Akiba Mermey create haiga as part of their spiritual practice. Maryam is an expressive arts haiku poet & international presenter who has contributed to international haiku journals and anthologies; she received a commendation in the 2022 Martin Lucas Award Contest. Akiba is a nature photographer & tai chi teacher. They were the featured artists in the Haiku Foundation’s February 2025 Haiga Gallery.
Gabriela Popa’s haiku and haiga can be found in cho, Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, cattails, Blo͞o Outlier, Wales Haiku Journal, failed haiku, and Kingfisher, among others. Her novels and short stories are available on her Amazon author page. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Vidya Premkumar is a poet, educator, and author of three poetry collections: Musing while Living, Living in an Indian Laputa, and the chapbook frame story. Her work has been featured in various literary journals, including Pan Haiku Review, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, and #Femku Mag. She resides in Wayand, Kerala, India.
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.
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.
Nalini Shetty is a poet and visual artist whose work moves between ink, silence, and the small human gesture. Her haiku and haiga explore touch, proximity, and the quiet weather of interior life. She lives in Mumbai.
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 debbiemstrange.blogspot.com.
Luminita Suse is a retired software engineer living in Ottawa, Canada. Her haiku, haiga, and tanka have appeared widely. Her 2026 chapbook maple keys, published by Éditions des petits nuages, shares some of her experience as a newcomer to Canada. She recently began making chapbooks illustrated with haiga and artwork based on her own photographs.
Nick T lives in a small village in Somerset, SW England. He has been interested in Japanese history and culture since his teenage years.
Kash Thomson is a hobby poet by night and a practising psychologist by day. He uses poetry to express, honour, and empathise with the human condition. Raised in the country, he is inspired by the natural world, quiet reflective moments, and hope for compassionate humanity. He has been published in the Australian haiku journal Echidna Tracks.
Stephanie Zepherelli, a California native and former dance professor, has been living on Oahu for the past 40 years. She has a tribe of Madagascar geckos and a drawer of mismatched spoons.