Denis M. Garrison, editor and publisher of Modern Haiga, 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, Nightingale, Eucalypt,
Simply Haiku, Moonset, Wisteria, Roadrunner, Trilopia, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, Haiga Online, and many others,
in his books, Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir, Hidden River (haiku), and
Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems. He's edited Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir, Templar Phoenix,
Haiku Cycles, Gunpowder River Poetry, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, and Loch Raven Review.
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Alexis Rotella, editor of Modern Haiga, has published more than two dozen poetry books. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies
and hundreds of journals including The New York Times (Metropolitan Diary), Christian Science Monitor, Glamour, and Family Circle.
Her well known longer poem ‘PURPLE’ has appeared in hundreds of publications around the world and most recently appeared in Bernie Siegel, M.D.’s
Love, Magic & Mudpies (Rodale Press). Rotella served as president of the Haiku Society of America (Japan House) in 1984 and was editor of
Frogpond, its house organ. She is a licensed acupuncturist and certified nutritionist in Arnold, Maryland.
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Liam Wilkinson, editor of Modern Haiga, was born and still resides in Yorkshire, England. His poetry, including haiku and tanka, has
appeared in many journals and anthologies including Ribbons, Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Lynx, Presence and Modern English Tanka.
Liam co-edited The Rose and Thorn Literary E-Zine for three years before founding the
3LIGHTS Online Gallery of Haiku & Tanka, which was launched in 2007
and continues to promote the visual enjoyment of haiku and related forms. Liam also works as a Librarian.
Linda Papanicolaou lives in the Bay Area of California. A middle school art teacher and art historian, she became interested in haiku and haiga when
she taught an art lesson that combined leaf printing and haiku; since then, her favorite forms of creative expression are haiku, haiga, any art that
offers the possibility of combining text with images. She is the editor of Haigaonline, assistant director of WHChaikumultimedia and
a resident artist at Moonset. Her art and poetry have appeared in Amaze, Autumn Leaves, Contemporary Haibun Online, Fire Pearls, Frog Pond,
Geppo, Heron's Nest, Haigaonline, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lynx, Mariposa, Moonset, Nisqually Delta Review, Ribbons, Santa Fe Broadside, Simply Haiku,
Soundings, Temps Libres, WHC World Kigo Project and World Haiku Review.
Raffael de Gruttola. Founding member of the Boston Haiku Society in 1987 and Past President of the Haiku Society of America as well as Treasurer and
first Northeast Regional Coordinator of HSA. He has published one book of haiku, Recycle/Reciclo. His haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga have
appeared in many journals throughout the United States and Europe. He has been invited to Japan on two occasions to participate in Renku sessions
with poets from around the world and has presented papers at HNA, Haiku Canada, and at the First International Haiku Conference in Romania. In the
summer of 2008, he will participate in an International Poetry Conference in Cesena, Italy. He has two portfolios of haiga: Echoes in Sand
with visual artist Wilfred Croteau, and the rattle of bamboo windchimes with artist, Peggy McClure. His haiga collaborations have been
exhibited in various exhibits in the Boston area and have been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has also collaborated with Carlos
Colón on two books of concrete haiga: Circling Bats and Wall Street Park.
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