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Paresh Tiwari

Naval Officer by profession, a creative writer, and illustrator by choice, Paresh Tiwari grew up in the labyrinthine lanes of Lucknow. A Pushcart Prize nominee and has published two widely acclaimed collections of poetry. His first book, ‘An inch of Sky’ was published in winter of 2014 and has been used as resource material for haiku and haibun at the Indiana Writers Centre, USA. ‘Raindrops chasing Raindrops’, his latest collection of haibun and hybrid poems has found an honourable mention at the ‘Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards’ – 2017; commissioned by The Haiku Foundation, USA.

Paul Callus

Paul Callus lives in Malta, Europe. He has been active in the literary field for around 50 years. He writes poetry, short stories, and lyrics for songs, mostly in English, Maltese, and Italian. His work has been published in various anthologies, journals and online sites. He is also a translator and proofreader.

Philip Davison

Philip Davison lives in Dublin. Among his published novels are McKenzie's Friend (Cape) The Long Suit (Cape) Eureka Dunes (Liberties) and Quiet City (Liberties). He writes radio drama. His play, The Invisible Mending Company, was performed at the Abbey Theatre. He co-wrote Learning Gravity, a BBC Storyville documentary on poet and undertaker, Thomas Lynch. His poems have appeared in various journals. In 2008 he was elected to Aosdána.

Pitamber Kaushik

Pitambar Kaushik is a writer, journalist, columnist, poet and independent researcher. His writings have been published in more than 220 publications, including leading newspapers, literary magazines, web outlets and research journals from 50+ countries. He has been a finalist in several international haiku poetry and other literary competitions.

Priti Aisola

Preeti Aisola is a writer, she has published several collections, a novel, “See Paris for Me”, “Beyond Gopurams, a spiritual journey”, and two collections of poetry, “Letters to Maya”, written in a creative non-fiction style is her latest book. In 2020, Kala Ramesh introduced her to Haikai literature and for this she is very grateful to her mentor. She loves being in the community of her warm-hearted poet friends, which gives her the opportunity to learn everyday and keeps her life fresh.

Quamrul Hassan

Quamrul Hassan is an MFA Candidate at the University of Arkansas’s Program in Creative Writing and Translation. His poems and translations have been published in Agni, Copper Nickel, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Malahat Review, Columbia Journal, Mantis, World Literature Today, The Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Usawa Literary Review, Prachya Review, and Star Literature Review. He is also the author of the haiku collections Spring Moon (2011) and Hyaku Haiku (2016). His haiku and tanka have appeared in Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Laurels, Failed Haiku, Ribbons, and Blithe Spirit.

Randy Brooks

Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he teaches a haiku course. Randy and Shirley Brooks are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku.

Ravi Kiran

Ravi is an Electronics Engineer and is a working professional. All things Japanese - from Bonsai to Japanese kitchen knives fascinate him. Haiku – which is a journey for Ravi is also a means of unwinding in the midst of his professional routine. Ravi’s haiku are featured in leading international journals.

Reet Kaur

Reet Kaur is an 18-year-old writer, artist, and creative force whose work blurs the line between emotion and intellect. Her poetry is cinematic and raw, her abstract and detailed art speaks in metaphors, and her passion for food becomes edible storytelling. With a mind tuned to both aesthetics and innovation, Reet is building her own path at the intersection of art, writing, and entrepreneurship, where every creation feels both intimate and bold.

Richa Sharma

Inspired by her love for nature and literature, Richa loves to write Japanese short poems in her spare time. His work has been published in many prestigious haiku magazines.

Richard L. Matta

Richard L. Matta was raised in New York’s rustic Hudson Valley, attended university (chemical engineering), and practiced forensic science. A Pushcart and Touchstone poetry nominee, his haiku publications appear in many international journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, HaikuKATHA, and elsewhere. He resides in San Diego, California.

Robert Hirschfield

Robert Hirschfield was born the year World War Two broke out. He grew up in the Bronx, New York’s highest borough, whose winds still blow through many of his haiku. Perhaps because of the carnage that accompanied his birth, he spent many years as a journalist covering uprisings in Latin America, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (focusing on peace activists in both camps), The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the insurrection against the monarchy in Nepal. To help pay the rent, Hirschfield took a job as a case manager for an agency providing housing for mentally challenged homeless people. Haiku came in the form of a gift a woman gave him: Lucien Stryk’s Zen Poems of China and Japan. One poem in particular changed his life. It was written by Zen Master Dogen: The world? Moonlit/ Drops shaken/ From the crane’s bill. He was brought into haiku’s mystery of moments. He didn’t begin writing haiku immediately, but more and more, he began living in its space, with its of echoes of impermanence. When he did finally put pencil to paper, he was not a young man, but an old man made young by the slide of handfuls of words emptying into ageless silence.

Robert Witmer

Now an emeritus professor, Robert Witmer has taught courses in poetry and short fiction at universities in Tokyo and in India. His writing appears in many print and online journals. He has also published three collections of poetry: Finding a Way; Serendipity; Sunrise, in a Rabbit Hole.

Royal Baysinger

Royal Baysinger writes across many forms. His haikai literature has been widely published in most of the world’s major English-language haiku journals and anthologies, such as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and The Red Moon Anthology. His speculative poetry has appeared in Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, and Scifaikuest, in which he was a Featured Poet. He has also been selected twice for The Dwarf Stars Anthology. His short fiction can be found in several publications, including a picture book, Kasanova — Lost in Love. When not reading or writing, Royal spends his time with his wife and two children working in the garden.

R. Suresh Babu

R. Suresh Babu is a resident of Thiruvalla, Kerala. He works as a graduate teacher in English at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Chikmagalur, Karnataka. He has published his haiku, senryu, haiga, Gembun and Cherita in anthologies and various journals.

Roberta Beach Jakobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson is an American author/poet/editor who is drawn to the magic of words – flash fiction, poetry, song lyrics, puzzles, and stand-up comedy. Her latest book is Demitasse Fiction: One-Minute Reads for Busy People (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). She lives in Indianola, Iowa, with her husband and three cats.

Rupa Anand

A spiritual seeker turned poet, Rupa Anand’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023), Touchstone Award (2023 & 2024) and Best of the Net. An English Literature graduate from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi, her poetry has been featured in national and international journals and anthologies. Her first book To the Edgeless Sky and Back (chronicling her cancer journey), a critically acclaimed collection of haiku and related short forms, published in July 2024, is available on Amazon’s Indian and global website. A chapbook titled Tamarind Tree reveals her love for rescuing animals and birds. She lives in New Delhi, finding peace in writing for and about cancer, and of course the wildlife she encounters in her environment.

Sangita Kalarickal

Dr. Sangita Kalarickal is an award winning, and Pushcart Prize and Touchstone award nominated wordsmith. Her work is widely published in several journals and anthologies. Her chapbook, Mamina (Kavya-Adisakrit, 2023), a collection of freeverse and haikai poetry was nominated for the Touchstone award. She is the Editor in Chief of Drifting Sands Haibun Journal and conducts the podcast Ripples in the Sand.

Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi has authored four books of poetry. Bleb from Hybriddreich in Scotland is his latest release. He is published in over thirty countries. His poems have found a home in more than 350 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. His other books of poetry, Suddenly for Someone (1988, Atma Ram & Sons, Delhi), Nine Summers Later (1997, Har-Anand, New Delhi), This Summer and That Summer (2015, Bloomsbury, New Delhi). He is the joint-winner of Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux organized by The Hedgehog Poetry Press UK. He is in the top 10 of the erbacce prize 2021. He lives in Mumbai, India.

Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta

Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta is a multidisciplinary artist from Hyderabad, India, striving to center his mind through art in an increasingly chaotic world. As part of this journey, he explores various mediums of expression. He blends writing with animation, existential crises with painting, and a love for nature with poetry—all fueled by a thirst to discover whether his voice can ever fully capture his feelings and thoughts. Reading and writing Japanese short-form poetry, such as haiku and related forms, brings him a contentment he has rarely experienced elsewhere. His haiku, senryu and haiga appear in leading international journals like Frogpond, haikuKATHA, Acorn, Presence, Kingfisher among others.

Scott F. Parker

Scott F. Parker is the author of Notes to a Future Self, among other books. His short poems have appeared in Cold Moon Journal, Shadow Pond Journal, Hedgerow, Acorn, and other publications. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Scott Wiggerman

Albuquerque poet and artist Scott Wiggerman is the author of four books of poetry, including his newest, Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals and Golden Shovels, a collection inspired by lines and themes of Emily Dickinson. He chairs ABQ-Haiku, the local chapter of the Haiku Society of America, has been nominated for numerous Pushcart and Touchstone awards, and co-judged the 2026 Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Contest.

Shiva Bhusal

Shiva grew up in Nepal and currently lives in Bellevue, USA. He works as a software engineer and practices writing. His works have been previously published in Frogpond, Haiku Canada Review, Modern Haiku, South Florida Poetry Journal, the Kathmandu Post, and elsewhere. Besides software engineering and writing, he plays competitive cricket for a local club.

Shinsaku Ashida

Shinsaku Ashida is a Tokyo-based poet whose work delves into the intricate interplay between memory, loss, and the human condition. His poetry has been featured in over 160 literary outlets—130 in Japan and 30 across six other countries—and recognized in several international competitions. In addition to free verse, Ashida is an accomplished writer of traditional Japanese forms, including tanka and haiku. He has authored three books in Japan, encompassing fiction and other genres, and is currently preparing his first comprehensive poetry anthology for international publication. Ashida continues to seek opportunities for global dialogue through poetry.

Shloka Shankar

Shloka Shankar is a poet, editor, publisher, and visual artist. A Best of the Net nominee, her poems and artwork have appeared in more than 200 top print and online venues. Shankar is the founding editor of Sonic Boom (2014) and its imprint Yavanika Press; founding member of Triveni Haikai India (2016); editor and coeditor of several international poetry anthologies, including Naad Anunaad: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (2016); assistant editor of Human/Kind (2019–2020); and panelist for the THF Touchstone Individual Poems Award (2023). Her books include Points of Arrival (2021), the haiku collection The Field of Why (2022), as poet-compiler, Living in the Pause: An Anthology of Collaborative Haiga 2020–2024. Shankar has won recognition in, among others, the Morioka and Yamadera contests (Japan), Polish Haiku Competition, Maya Lyubenova Contest (Bulgaria), Sharpening the Green Pencil Contest (Romania), and H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (U.S.A.). She lives in Bangalore, India.

Sonia Dogra

A former educator and children's author, Sonia has been published in Muse India, The Hooghly Review, Porch LitMag, Usawa, Zhagaram Literary, among others. She is drawn to poetry, gardening and a quiet life in the hills.

Souvik Chakraborty

Souvik Chakraborty, a resident of Kolkata, India, has been a devout reader of literature since his teens. An engineer at SAIL by profession, Souvik occasionally moonlights as a writer and an editor. He has two short story collections under his belt, and has edited 11 genre-fiction anthologies including the critically acclaimed The World of Science Fiction. When not busy penning or curating stories, he tries his hand at poetry, and his works have appeared in webzines such as Voxpoetica, Three Line Poetry, Haiku Journal, Haikuniverse, and Thespace.ink. Souvik loves to play the guitar and binge on thriller flicks.

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi is well known as a haiku poet in India and overseas. He has over 800 haiku and senryu published in various international journals like Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and The Heron’s Nest. Srinivasa won several haiku awards including the winner in the VCBF haiku contest in the international category in 2022 and first place in the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest in 2023. His debut book “forget-me-nots” was published in 2022. Currently, he lives in Hyderabad, India.

Sudha Prakash

Dr Sudha Prakash is a retired Reader in Botany. She taught at Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi for 30 years. She is an ardent lover of nature. An octogenarian, she still takes keen interest in different varieties of plants. Her book Useful Indian Herbs came out in 2008. She lives in Auroville, India.

Sukirta Paul Kumar

Sukrita Paul Kumar, former Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, held the prestigious Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi University. An honorary faculty at Corfu, Greece, she was an invited resident poet at the prestigious International Writing Programme at Iowa, USA. Her most recent collections of poems, are Salt & Pepper (Selected Poems), Vanishing Words and Dream Catcher. She has been awarded Rabindranath Tagore Prize 2023 recently and in 2022, she was honored with Vishwarang Samman, and the Bharat Nirman award earlier. Her poems have been translated into many Indian and foreign languages, the latest is the book of her poems translated into Italian, published by Besa Muci, Rome. Her critical books include Narrating Partition, The New Story and Conversations on Modernism. She has co-edited many books, including Speaking for Herself: Asian Women’s Writings. An Honorary Fellow at HK Baptist University, Hong Kong, she has published many translations and has held exhibitions of her paintings. Currently she is series co-editor of “Writer in Context” volumes published by Routledge UK and South Asia. She is currently the Guest Editor of Indian Literature, a journal published by Sahitya Akademi, India.

Suzanne Leaf-Brock

Suzanne Jean Leaf-Brock had her first stories and articles accepted and published while she was in high school. She was in the University of Iowa undergraduate Writer’s Workshop, had a 43-year career in communications and upon retirement in 2020 reignited her passion of creative writing. That is when she began to study and write haiku. She lives in Iowa (USA) with her husband and cocker spaniel.

Tabish Nawaz

Tabish Nawaz teaches Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has published a poetry collection The Ornaments for Silence (Hawakal, 2023) and a short-story collection Opening Clouds, Fermented Rain (Hawakal, 2020). His short stories, poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in Indian Literature, Scroll, Outlook, The Wire, Tint Journal, nether Quarterly, Madras Courier, The Bombay Review, The Bangalore Review, The Critical Flame, Woolgathering Review, The Punch Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021 and 2023, among other venues. You can find him on Instagram: @tabish_nawaz_87 and Twitter: @Tabish_Shajar.

Tejendra Sherchan

Tejendra Sherchan was born in Chhisbang village in the Myagdi district of Nepal. He completed his Bachelors in Psychology and English Literature from Tri-Chandra College in 1993. As a serious haiku poet, he started writing haiku in 2024. Some of his haiku and senryu have been published in major English journals—Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Asahi Haikuist Network, The Leaf, Failed Haiku, The Mainichi Japan's National Daily and more. Currently he lives in Kathmandu. His city boasts of many world heritage sites endorsed by UNESCO.

Tomislav Sjekloća

Tomislav Sjekloća is an award-winning haiku poet from Montenegro. His haiku and senryu have been published in various international print and online journals and anthologies. He was selected among top 100 most creative European haiku poets in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. He was also included in jar of rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020.

Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith is a physician and former University Professor. He has articles and book chapters included in the scientific literature. COVID changed his creative focus. He began writing poetry seriously after his book in verse The Search for King: A Fable was published in 2022. He since has published Japanese short form poems, free verse and rhymed poems, and limericks in a number of literary journals. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.

Tim Dwyer

Tim Dwyer’s current poetry collection, Accepting The Call (templarpoetry.com), has won the Straid Collection Award. His Japanese form and longer poetry appear regularly in Irish, UK and international journals and anthologies. Raised by Irish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, USA he now lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

Tuyet Van Do

Tuyet Van Do lives in Melbourne, Australia. She loves poetry and writes whenever inspiration strikes. Her work has been widely published in various journals and anthologies. She was nominated for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2022, 2025), and was the winner of The Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Contest (2025).