ALEXANDER,
BECKY: for a decade, Becky has written
humorous
articles, poetry, and haiku. She has been published
in
Pegasus, Country Woman, The Toronto Star, Tower, and
Zygote,
among others, and has had work included in national
and
international anthologies. She is a member of several
writers
associations, including The Cambridge Writers
Collective,
Green River Writers (KY), and Haiku Canada.
Her
first chapbook is entitled On Raven¹s Wings.
Becky
Alexander
ANAKIEV,
DIMITAR: poet, editor, and publisher who
owns
Prijatelj Haiku Press ( Slovenia ) which publishes
books
and magazines of and about haiku, including
KNOTS
- An Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku,
edited
by Dimitar Anakiev & Jim Kacian, and A Peace
of
the Sky - Haiku from Shelter - an anthology of war
topic
haiku from Yugoslavia, edited by Anakiev. He is
the
"father" and editor of many haiku projects in
Southeastern
Europe such as: Haiku Novine in Nis,
Yugoslavia
and Prijatelj in Tolmin, Slovenia. Dimitar has
eleven
haiku collections published. His books include
Pticija
Staza - 1995 in Serbian; Ptica Pateka - 1996 in
Bulgarian;
Lastovke - 1998 in Slovenian; and Enormous
Frog
- 1998 in English. He also has won several prizes in
haiku
competitions such as Second Prize in The Mainichi
Daily
News Contest in 1993. Dimitar chairs the inaugural
committee
of the Haiku Association of South East Europe
(
HASEE) and edits Green Apples - Forum for International
Haiku.
Dimitar
Anakiev
ANDERSON,
KAY F.: a published freelance writer and
author
since 1965, two of her books were THE FIRST
BOOK
OF PHILOSOPHY (for gifted 6th grade students)
and
I AND THOU IN THE HERE AND NOW. She also
translated
a French philosophy book into English,
worked
as Director of Christian Education and Evangelism,
and
as a certified Transactional Analyst from 1969 to
retirement.
Special writing assignments were with
ADDISON-WESLEY
PUBLISHING CO. and with Maxwell
Maltz,
author of PSYCHOCYBERNETICS. (She served as
Director
of West Coast Psychocybernetics.) Kay has
published
in Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family
Circle,Guideposts,
and elsewhere, receiving honorary
awards
from the California Congress of Parents and
Teachers,
Inc., and from the American Assoiation of Blood
Banks
for a year-long series of articles. Kay began writing
haiku
a decade ago and has published in numerous journals
and
anthologies, winning various awards for haiku, senryu
and
tanka. She served as 1994 judge for the Gerald M.
Brady
Memorial Senryu Contest, and was President of
HPNC
in 1996. She has been appointed judge for the 2001
haiku
contest sponsored by the Palomar Branch of National
Leaque
of American Pen Women. A large collection of Kay's
published
haiku appear in Charles Trumbull's Haiku Database.
Kay
has been a playful and spontaneous unschooled artist for
most
of her life, including trompe l'oeil paintings on her
home,
on a motel and a condo building, but became seriously
committed
to sumie-e in 1992. Four of her sumi-e were first
published
in Woodnotes, as well as one sumi-e in a Romanian
publication,
1993. Her first haiga was published in S X SE,
1997;
the second haiga was published in Mariposa 1, 1999,
and
subsequently one each of her haiga and haibun were
published
in up against the window, American Haibun &
Haiga.
Her haiga, "just as it is," along with a discussion of
its
Zen nature, will be included in a forthcoming Tuttle book
written
by Bruce Ross, Editor of HAIKU MOMENT. Four of
her
haiga appear in Jean Emrich's HAIGAOnline, May 2000,
in
the Contemporary and Experimental section. Kay also
illustrated
David Rice's tanka chapbook, In Each Other's Steps,
and
assisted in illustrating Laurie Stoelting's haiku chapbook,
Light
on the Mountain. Recently Kay provided eleven sumi-e
illustrations
for Editor Linda Ward's, FULL MOON TIDE, a
selection
of prize winning poems gleaned from ten years of
Tanka
Splendor competition. As of Fall, 2000, Kay’s sumi-e
paintings
appear in the HSA Newsletter and are scheduled
to
continue for one year. Kay lives with her husband,
John,
beside a San Francisco Bay lagoon in Redwood Shores,
Redwood
City, CA. Kay and John are parents of a high school
fine
arts teacher/counselor, Sue Villarreal, and Kathryn
Anderson,
Detective Sergeant of the Redwood City Police
Department.
They have four grandchildren, Megan, Vince,
J.R.
and Laura. Kay
Anderson
an’ya:
her name translates to “dark'night” or means a
surprise
that arrives under cover of nighttime. an'ya's
haiku
is like "a light in the moonless night," this name
given
to her by David McMurray (Mack), author of
a
weekly column at the "Asahi Evening Newspaper" in
Japan.
Some of her first haiku were featured at "The Outch
Tree,"
thereafter, she began posting her haiku to the "Shiki
Internet
Salon," where her work earned a few 4th, 5th, etc.
in
weekly kukai competitions. On a regular basis in 1999,
an'ya's
haiku appeared online at "The Heron's Nest," one
earning
1st place Editor's Choice; and later voted as one of
the
year's favorites in the Valentine Award's. Since then, that
particular
haiku has been translated and printed in the Serbian
language,
and reprinted in the "Haiku Informer #12." Another
of
her haiku was featured online at “japandesignworks,” and
another
is forthcoming at "Haiga Online." Other haiku are
scheduled
to appear in "Green Apples" and in "Haiku Moment."
Her
work also appears in “Up Against the Wall” 2000 anthology
(Red
Moon Press) accompanied by haigu by Kuniharu Shimizu,
celebrated
graphic design artist in Japan. In the "World Haiku
Festival
2000, two of an’ya’s haiku were selected as favorites.
Most
recently, her haiku earned 2nd place, Editor's Choice in the
March
edition of "The Heron's Nest”; 3rd place, plus an HM in the
"Evelyn
Slater McLeod & Viola Rivenburgh Memorial Poetry
Contest
2000" sponsered by the National League of American Pen
Women.
an’ya also writes other types of poetry, including sijo and
poems
for special occasions – examples of which can be found in
her
website. tacticianWebsite:
DARK
MOON POETRY
AOYAGI,
FAY: born in Tokyo, Fay has been living
in
San Francisco since 1994 after 10 years as a non-
haiku
poet in New York City. Fay
Aoyagi
AVERY,
BELLE ROBERTSON. A New Zealander,
Belle
is a life member of International Writers' Workshop,
N.Z.
(Inc), and a member of Auckland Chevron Poets.
Her
poetry has been published in the U.S.A., Canada,
Israel,
Scotland, England, Japan and New Zealand.
Belle
A. Robertson