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Fatma Zohra Habis

Fatma Zohra Habis lives in Algeria. She loves poetry and Japanese culture. Her specialty is physics. Several haiku and tanka poems have been published in prestigious journals around the world, such as The Enchanted Garden and The Sacred Dragonfly THE Daily foundation, The LEAF journal, haikuKATHA.

Gareth Nurden

Gareth Nurden has had several hundred pieces of Haiku, Senryu and Haiga published in twenty-two countries worldwide and has had several pieces nominated for Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2024 and 2025.

Gauri Dixit

Gauri Dixit is a software professional from Pune, India, who enjoys expressing herself through various poetic forms, including free verse, haiku, haibun, tanka, and tanka prose. Her work has appeared in publications like Spillwords, Stanzaic Stylings, Oddball Magazine, Glomag, Narrow Road, HaikuKATHA, Asahi Haikuist Network, and Under the Basho. In 2018, she published her first poetry collection, "In My Skin I Find Freedom," which earned her the Reuel International Prize for Best Upcoming Poet. Gauri loves traveling and capturing moments through photography.

Goran Gatalica

Goran Gatalica is a physicist, writer, haiku poet in Zagreb, Croatia. He works to make the sciences more open, accessible, and inclusive for young people. Alongside his scientific work, Gatalica is an accomplished poet, having published six award-winning books of poetry. His literary achievements include the prestigious Dragutin Tadijanović Award from the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His poetry and haiku have been featured in numerous Croatian and international publications, appearing in more than fifty journals and anthologies worldwide.

Govind Joshi

Govind Joshi is a mariner and navigates ships around the world for a living. He lives in Dehradun, India and loves nature, gardening, travel and poetry. His Japanese short form poetry has been published in many fine print and online journals including Frogpond, Presence, cattails and chrysanthemum.

Hifsa Ashraf

Hifsa Ashraf is an award-winning multilingual poet, author, editor, and social activist based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She is the author of six individual and four collaborative micropoetry books. She received The Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2021 from The Haiku Foundation (USA), and her poem was also shortlisted for the 2022 Touchstone Award. Her poetry collection, Her Fading Henna Tattoo received Honourable Mentions in both the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 2020 and the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award 2021. Her latest collaborative poetry collection, Beyond Emptiness, is co-authored with Jacob D. Salzer and Nicholas Klacsanzky. Please follow her on social media at @hifsays

Jacob Kobina

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah is a multilingual poet, multidisciplinary artist, algebraist, journalist, publisher and wanderer. He also edits literary and journalistic journals, including Pkankmaton, a journal of haiku and related poetry, The Rough Sheet Tanka Journal, Winneba Verse, Southeast Asia Literature Journal, Seoul Poetry Quarterly, etc. He is the author of more than 19 poetry book publications, including Witness and a full-length poetry collection in Spanish, agua y color, is forthcoming from Valparaiso Poetry Press. His individual pieces have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Jake Williams

Jake was born in darkest rural Dorset the year Marvin Gaye asked what’s going on, in a cottage with Owls in the attic and a serious damp problem. Basically, he would have been the Feral Kid from Mad Max 2 if he’d been a character in a Thomas Hardy novel.

Jamie Wimberly

Jamie Wimberly has been published in many of the leading haiku journals and has been nominated for the Touchstone award. His published books of poetry include, Before I Forget Them, and an anthology, Between Falling Leaves and Their Shadows, with young poets he was mentoring through the HSA 40 under 40 program. His newest book, The Way Home, will be published by Red Moon Press this year. Jamie currently is collaborating with filmmakers on a series of haiku film shorts.

Janet Ruth

Janet Ruth is a New Mexico ornithologist and poet. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in modern haiku, Tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, and Frogpond. Her winning sonnet, “A World That Shimmers, ” was set to music and performed by True Concord Voices and Orchestra in 2023. Her book, Feathered Dreams: celebrating birds in poems, stories & images (Mercury HeartLink, 2018) was a Finalist for the 2018 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. https://redstartsandravens.com/janets-poetry/

Jay Friedenberg

Jay Friedenberg is a past President of the Haiku Society of America (2020-2022) and served for two years as Associate Editor of the organization's journal Frogpond. He is a member of the Spring Street Haiku Group that meets monthly in New York City. Jay has had his poetry accepted in numerous U.S. and international journals and has published several book collections of his work. He has won multiple U.S. and International haiku contests.

Jennifer Gurney

Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published, two of her poems have won international contests and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 12 books of poetry.

Joanna Ashwell

Joanna Ashwell a short form poetry writer from the UK. Published widely in many print and online journals. She has been shortlisted for the Touchstone Award, has won awards and serves on the selection team for the Canadian tanka journal GUSTS. Some of her poetry collections are available on Amazon. River Lanterns won the honorary Cherita award. Moonset Song, Love’s Scriptures and Every Star are also available on Amazon.

Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the Touchstone awards and Pushcart Prize, has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems and Funny Pages were released by Setu and Meat For Tea press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.

John Richard Stephens

John Richard Stephens has been an author for most of his life. His 25 published books are on various topics—mostly history and fiction anthologies—but so far none are on poetry. He enjoys the challenge of composing haiku but also enjoys reading it. He lives on Maui in Hawaii but is preparing to return to Japan to study haiku, among other things. www.JohnRichardStephens.com

Joseph Howse

Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he keeps cats, honeybees, and cold-hardy fruit trees. His writing ranges from haiku to a series of computer programming books published by Packt (Birmingham & Mumbai). Joseph's debut novel, The Girl in the Water, won the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction. He is now working on a sequel, The Circus and the Atom. You can read more about his novels and poetry at https://nummist.com/stories/.

Joshana Banerjee

Dr Joshna Banerjee Advani is serving as the Principal at Gadel Modern Public School, Agra. Her first poetry collection, "Sudhanpoorna", was published under the Deepak Arora Memorial Award, dedicated to her late parents. After teaching English at the PGT level for ten years, she took charge as Principal. She spent much of her time in Kolkata, where she lived in Bolpur and Belur, learning Kathak and Bharatanatyam. Alongside her role as Principal, she currently conducts CBSE workshops and edits CBSE textbooks. Her poetry often reflects the influence of the Bengali language. Her second collection, "Ambudhi Mein Pasra Hai Aakash", was published by Vani Prakashan. In 2021, she received a fellowship from the Raza Foundation to work extensively on Shambhu Maharaj Ji.

Joshua Gage

Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. His newest chapbook, blips on a screen, is available on Cuttlefish Books. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.

Joy Yin

Joy Yin is a writer from Wuhan, China, though she has lived in California for 5 years. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English but also learning Mexican Spanish. Joy has always loved reading and writing. As of now, she has works either forthcoming or already published in Skipping Stones Magazine, Scfaikuest, the new Drabbun Anthology by Hiraeth Books, Cold Moon Journal, and Star*Line. Find her on Instagram @joyyinm88.

Judit Hollos

Judit Hollos is a playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist and journalist. Her short stories, poems, translations and articles have been featured in English, Swedish and Hungarian in literary magazines and anthologies across the globe. She is the author of two chapbook collections of Japanese poetry and short prose. Her monologues and plays have been presented and received readings at theaters and festivals in Glasgow, San Francisco, New York, London and Kyiv.

Julie Bloss Kelsey

Julie Bloss Kelsey is the current Vice President of The Haiku Foundation. She writes a bi-monthly column for beginning haiku poets called New to Haiku. Julie lives in Maryland, USA with her husband, children, a little red dachshund named Toffee, pet fish, and many plants. Connect with her on Instagram (@julieblosskelsey).