Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
Haiga Gallery 22.1
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About the Artists
A long-time resident of California, Cynthia Anderson has published 14 poetry collections. Her most recent book of haiku and senryu, Heartwood, is available as a free pdf download at her website, cynthiaandersonpoet.com. Haiga: down to earth
Robert Baum is a retired educator, magazine writer/editor, and artist. He lives on the New Jersey coast with his love, Carolyn, and teaches English to immigrants and refugees. His recent novel, Between the Earth and Sky, is available through Amazon. Haiga: morning mist
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 published by Yarrow Press. Haiga: grandma hums
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. Haiga: golden april
Ingrid Bruck lives in Pennsylvania Amish country. A retired library director, she writes haiku and short forms. She’s had four Pushcart nominations and two for Best of the Net, and she’s published one chapbook, Finding Stella Maris (Flutter Press). Current work appears in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Spillwords, and Verse-Virtual. See ingridbruck.com Haiga: a woodpecker
Pris Campbell has been publishing haiga for about 25 years, along with her short forms, free verse and eleven poetry books. Housebound with chronic fatigue syndrome, she makes her home in South Florida with her husband. Haiga: incurable illness; searching
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. Haiga: mother’s ashes
Michelle Farrell is a multimedia artist and poet living New Zealand. Her art is held in collections internationally and her writing and haiga have been published in various online and print journals. Nature, family, ponderings about the way of things, and creative explorations fill many of her days. See @michellefarrellart. Haiga: swirling mists
Bill Fay has had work featured in dozens of anthologies, journals, and other literary publications worldwide. He has won or placed in +15 haiku contests, including being a four time first place winner of THF Monthly Kukai. He hikes, writes, and collects art from his home on Fox Island in Washington State. Haiga: chance encounter (with Susan Lee Roberts, art)
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.” Haiga: fleeting moment; how many arrows)
A lecturer of English from Slovakia, Denisa Hanšutová has been trying her hand at senryu and haiga since November 2024. Haiga: a love poem; never quite melting
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. Haiga: best seat
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. See peterjastermsky.com. Haiga: unexpected treausures
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. Haiga: chrysanthemums; nursing homes
Martina Matijević is a poet from Croatia. Haiga: visiting the empty home
Marina Meehan pursued a career in dental hygiene, but after a trip to Kyoto she became engrossed with Japanese poetry. Capturing an image and blending it with the idea that shutters through her mind almost simultaneously is where the magic begins for her. She is published in Hair Trigger. Haiga: paper moon
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. Haiga: monday morning
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. Haiga: her hands
Darlene O’Dell is the author of Main Street (2025, Yavanika Press), Raised in the World of Everyday Poets (2022, Yavanika Press), and The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven (CPI, 2024). Her poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Presence, Frogpond, Wales Haiku Journal, Sonic Boom, and Under the Basho, among others. Haiga: bedknobs and bedtime
Andrew Pineo is a retired electrical engineer who lives in southern New Hampshire. He joined the Haiku Society of America in 2025 and challenged himself to learn how to write various forms of Japanese poetry correctly after ten years of not doing so. He hopes to find other outlets for my artistic abilities in the future. Haiga: snow forecast
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. Haiga: chance encounter (with Bill Fay, haiku)
Alexis Rotella lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her ginger boy cat, Colby. Haiga: mourning my dead
Michael Shoemaker is a poet, photographer, haikuist and editor from Magna, Utah where he lives with his wife and son and enjoys looking out on the Great Salt Lake every day. His poems appear in Presence, Haiku Commentary, Seashores Haiku Journal, Blue Lake Review, and Under the Basho. Haiga: what i see
Neena Singh lives in Chandigarh, India. She was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award in 2021, and her haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun have appeared widely in online and print journals. A former banker, she now runs a non-profit for underprivileged children and enjoys exploring gardens. Haiga: last glow
Sushma A. Singh, an orthodontist from Lucknow, India, has authored a book of short stories. Her poetry, including haiku has been published in two dozen international literary journals. One of her haiku was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award in 2018. Haiga: spring petals
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. Haiga: darkness
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. Haiga: the erosion
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 have appeared in leading journals and also won awards in international contests. He is the founding editor of Haiku Seed Journal. Haiga: a boy with a net
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). Haiga: looking for insights
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. See swallowingpaint.com. Haiga: beyond the prison fence
Elaine Wilburt is a mother and writer whose work has appeared in various online and print journals. Haiga: for now only
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. Haiga: last act
John Zheng‘s recent books include Delta Lenscapes: Photoku (Nun Prophet, 2025). His photoku have also appeared in Haiga in Focus, Cantos, Failed Haiku, Fireflies’ Light, Haiku Commentary, Prune Juice, and Under the Basho, among others. Haiga: deep zen