Denis M. Garrison lives near Maryland's Chesapeake Bay with his wife, Deborah. In the 1970s, he edited Towson University’s literary magazine and taught creative writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Free University. His poetry's published in Poetry Scotland, Ribbons, Tangled Hair, Eucalypt, Magnapoets, red lights, Nightingale, Trilopia, Simply Haiku, Moonset, Wisteria, Roadrunner, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, Haiga Online, and many others, and in his books, Hidden River (haiku), Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir, and Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, a volume of formal and free verse. His poetry is anthologized in May Dazed, Poets Gone Wild, The Five-Hole Flute, Fire Pearls. The Dreaming Room, Sixty Sunflowers,, Landfall, and Ash Moon Anthology. He's edited Modern English Tanka, Modern Haiga, Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku, Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir, Templar Phoenix, Haiku Cycles, Gunpowder River Poetry, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, and Loch Raven Review.