Andrea Da Costa:
Andrea lives in Melbourne, Australia. After going through an extremely difficult period of her life, she emerged with the gift of poetry, writing her first poem in June 1999. Since then writing has become her first love and her poems have appeared in numerous publications.

Poetry comes closest to expressing that which is inexpressible. - Andrea Da Costa

http://piecesofmyheart.org

Andrew Riutta:
Andrew lives in northern Michigan, along with his wife, Lori, and their four year old daughter, Issabella. He has been writing poetry for fifteen years.

"Roll up the excrement of the Earth to create a Star." - Aleister Crowley

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Ashok Niyogi:
Ashok was schooled in Irish Christian Brothers’ schools and writes in Indian English, with whiffs of Russian, inevitable Americanisms and the odd Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali turn of phrase. He claims to have basic survival skills in these languages. He is unemployed since writing poetry is not a gainful occupation, and lives off his savings, charity,inheritances, gifts and his wife’s earnings (she is a senior corporate manager in Delhi). He divides time between the Bay Area in San Francisco, where his daughters live, India, Russia, airplanes and wherever his poetry takes him.

I looked at a rose
     and said 'beautiful',
     beautiful became she.
     You will say, 'this is
     philosophy',
     I say, 'this is truth,
     that is why
     it is poetry'.........
             - Rabindranath Tagore
(inadequately translated by Ashok from
the original Bengali)

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Aurora Antonovic:
Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian writer and visual artist whose poetry has appeared over five hundred times in publications based in seven countries and five continents. She currently acts as Canadian liaison for Muse Apprentice Guild.

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." - Robert Frost

http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/summer_2004/international/canada.html

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Beki Reese:
Beki Reese is an Administrator and Moderator of the Haiku Forum at the ArcanumCafe. She is a writer of poetry and prose, and works as a Circulation Supervisor in a County Library.. Her work has appeared in print publications of: Brussel Sprouts, Cicada, Broken Streets, Dragonfly, Red Pagoda, Silverwings, and the Taj Mahal Review. It has also appeared online at poetrymagazine.com, Snakeskin, A Rooom Without Walls and Carnelian Poetry Magazine.

"Shall I tell the truth or shall I  make sense? Choose either, because I cannot do both." Randall Jarrell

Bruce H. Reeve:
Bruce H Reeve is a Canadian photographer who uses film to capture
the beauty of Nature as he interperts it through his lens . Whether city lights, sweeping landscapes, country scenes, or personal portraits, Bruce records them all with an artistic slant. He currently resides in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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chibi (Dennis M. Holmes)
Dennis M. Holmes lives in northwest Georgia with his wife and sons.

"I love haiku."

Christine Williams:
Christine is married stay-at-home mother of four. She is a previously
published poet both online and in print. She resides in the state of Ohioand spends her days searching for missing socks and spilling her heart onto blank white pages.

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
Carl W. Buechner

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David Bacharach:
David resides in Alpine, New York. A relative newcomer to haiku, he has been published by World Haiku Club, and Temps Libres. Shortly, he will have work published in Ribbons and Simply Haiku. Last year he placed third in l April's World Haiku Shiki Kukai.

"Sentimentality means having more tenderness about a thing than God has."
R.H. Blyth

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Deborah P. Kolodji:
Deborah P. Kolodji works in information technology to fund her poetry obsessions and to pay for her children's continually increasing college tuition.  Her work has appeared in Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, The Heron's Nest, Hummingbird, The Mainichi Daily News, and many other journals both on and off the web. One of her haiku can be found within the pages of the 2003 edition of the Red Moon Anthology. She is the editor and co-founder of Amaze: The Cinquain Journal.

When not writing poetry or fixing broken servers and databases, she can be found hiking on the wild side of Los Angeles or wandering the beaches looking for new kigo.

"Society has already told us that poetry is dead.  Let's build a funeral pyre out of desiccated conventions piled around us and watch the   ancient, spangle-feathered, unkillable phoenix rise from the ashes." 

Dana Gioia, "Can Poetry Matter?"

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Denis Garrison:
Denis M. Garrison lives in northern Maryland. A 1974 Towson graduate in English literature, he edited Towson’s literary magazine and taught creative writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Free University.  His poetry’s published in Poetry Scotland, Nightingale,Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, The Writer’s Hood, Poetic Voices, and others. Garrison’s published books include Port of Call and Other Poems, Eight Shades of Blue, and The Brink at Logan Pond.  Garrison created three forms, the cinqku and crystalline haiku analogues and the nautilus.

www.dmgar.com

Ed Markowski:
Ed Markowski lives and writes in Auburn Hills, Michigan. His short fiction appears regularly in Smokebox Magazine.

"nobody needs to baptize me, anytime i laugh i got religion."
Grace Slick from "The Ballad Of The Chrome Nun."

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Gary Blankenship:
Gary Blankenship is a retired federal manager who dabbles in poetry and publishing.  He is CEO of Santiam Publishing and publishes the online journal, MindFire Renewed and its companion, FireWeed.  Gary has been widely published on the web and in a variety of paper publications in the States and abroad.  His day is divided between the cat, poetry forums, and chores.  If all goes well, he will publish a volume of poetry based on Wang Wei's River Wang poems in the summer of 2005.

http://www.mindfirerenew.com/

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Gladys Bruno:
I am a former teacher, interpreter/translator, turned legal secretary, and an advocate for Caribbean refugees.  I serve as President and CEO of the Haitian Agricultural Renaissance Fund, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation.  Among my published works are:  “The Common Dream,” a historical fiction, by Xlibris Corporation, two essays published in anthologies by Forward Press, UK, and two more awaiting publication.  In addition, a short story "Journey" appears in “Memoirs Of The Imaginative Mind, ” also by Forward Press, UK.  Caribbean Studies Press will be releasing another one of my essays on Haitian Refugees shortly, as part of a collaborative work with Portland State University.

"Remember that you are responsible for the whole world,"

http://www.camilasdream.com

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Janet Lynn Davis:
Janet Lynn Davis used to write and edit for a living in Houston, Texas.  Now she writes for free.  Her poetry has appeared most recently in or is forthcoming in Tattoo Highway, Beginnings, Penwood Review, MÖBIUS, Pebble Lake Review, and other journals.  She is a previous contributor at Full Moon.

"Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it
again.  Give portions to seven, yes, to eight, for you do not know
what disaster may come upon the land."  --- Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 NIV.

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Jersey D. Gibson:
The self-styled "Patron Saint of Drinking", Jersey has been slowly destroying the world with his poems since early high school. Along with poetry, he writes magazine articles, screenplays, stillboards, flashboards, and scathing comments to random newspaper journalists and reporters. He is currently stationed at Ft. Drum, NY.

John Daleiden:
John Daleiden is a retired public high school Language Arts teacher; he enjoys reading poetry and recently began writing haiku.

"Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame".
from 'A High-Toned old Christian Woman.'  Wallace Stevens. The
Collected Poems.

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Kate:
Kate Steere is a stay at home mom, and unpaid poet and editor in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
 Henri Matisse

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Kelley White:
Kelley White works as a pediatrician in inner city Philadelphia.

"Let us see then what love will do."  William Penn

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Robert Wilson:
Robert Wilson is the owner/managing editor of www.simplyhaiku.com and the author of Vietnam Ruminations, a highly acclaimed e-book of haibun about the Vietnam War ( www.vietnamruminations.com ).  He has won numerous awards in Japan for his haiku and haiga, and has been published in  numerous journals throughout the world.  He resides in both the Philippines and the United States.

Ryan Bird:
Ryan Bird is a soulless poet seeking a likewise audience. He calls both Toronto, and his lovely wife Jillian, home. He also lives with the maximum number of pets allowed by law.

"Brain, shake out thy water, dog-like" Ron Padgett

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Shane Elliott Gilreath:
Shane resides in Hollywood, California and enjoys many forms of recreational writing and poetry. He was raised on Maui and holds a high regard for
Hawaiian culture and Hawaiiana. Shane also enjoys current events, social discourse, and his next project - as a recent graduate of University of West Los Angeles Law School - is conquering the State of California Bar Exam.

"Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono."
"The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in
Righteousness."

Suchoon Mo:
I am a former Korean Army Lieutenant and a Korean War veteran.   Currently, I am a retired academic living in the semi-arid part of Colorado.   My poems have appeared, or will appear, in: East and West (India), Snakeskin (UK), The Surface (UK), Dissident Editions (UK), America Sings, Riverside Poetry, Religious Humanism,  Bitter Oleander, Shampoo, Poetic Voices, Above Ground Testing, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Spillway Review, and others.