MACHMILLER,
PATRICIA J joined the Yuki Teikei
Haiku
Society when it was organized in 1975 as a
branch
of the Yukuharu Society, Japan. She has been a
student
of Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi up until
Kiyoshi's
death. She has continued her haiku study
under
the guidance of Kiyoko. She is a past president
of
the Society. In 1997 with other members of the Society
she
traveled to Japan where she visited and wrote with
Japanese
haiku and renku poets. For the past two years
she
has coordinated the annual Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
Autumn
Retreat held at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA. She
and
Jerry Ball write a column of haiku commentary
published
in the GEPPO. Patricia
Machmiller
MacNEIL,
PAUL: B.A., M.A., (A.N., Amateur Naturalist),
lives
in Florida, USA. A widower, he is retired from retail
business.
Paul's teenage daughter lets him use her computer.
The
yellow pads are his own. Some of his images are from The
Great
North Woods particularly Maine and Ontario, Canada.
His
haiku, haibun, renku and tanka are published variously by
Modern
Haiku, Acorn, Haiku Canada, and principally on the
Internet
at The Heron's Nest, Poetry in the Light, and Haiga
Online.
Paul is an Associate Editor of the print and web haiku
monthly:
The Heron's Nest. He was a double winner of the 2000
Snapshot
Haiku Calendar Competition. Together with his partners,
The
Haiku Society of America awarded him both Grand Prize and
Second
Place in the 2000 Einbond Renku Competition. He earned
Honorable
Mention in the same contest in 1999. Paul
MacNeil
For
haiku to The Heron's Nest: Paul
MacNeil, Assoc. Ed.
MAIR,
CATHERINE: Since 1989 Catherine's haiku have
appeared
regularly in the N.Z. Poetry Society's annual
publications
and in many haiku journals throughout the
world.
In June 1990, Caterpillar, a book of haiku verse was
hunched.
In 1993 her work appeared m New Zealand's first
haiku
anthology. In 1994, as an invited speaker at the haiku
Festival
in Romania she delivered a paper entitled Exploring
Renku
and appeared on Romanian television. In 1995 she
edited
the first issue of the haiku-focused journal winterSPIN.
In
l996 she was one of three major award winners in the
Whitireia
Poetry competition and co-hosted the first Into She
Light
poetry festival in Tauranga. A selection of Catherine's
haiku
has been published on the internet. An essay has been
prepared
about Catherine's work for publication in Language
Forum
(Calcutta.) 1998 A short story has been selected for
inclusion
in "Adhere 100 New Zealand Short Short Stories",
which
has been published by Tandem Press, April I 998 and
another
story has been accepted by Takahe magazine. A wide
selection
of Catherine's haiku will be published in the second
New
Zealand Haiku Anthology which is due out this year.
Meanwhile
Catherine's poems and haiku are appearing in
journals
worldwide and she has been involved with the
organization
of the second poetry festival in Tauranga, Bay
of
Plenty, New Zealand where shadow-patches, an anthology
of
haiku including her own work and a selection of haibun by
Janice
Bostok (Australia),and Bernard Gadd (New Zealand),
was
launched. In the Fall of 1998, Les Editions David will be
publishing
ten of Catharine's haiku in Anthology of haiku,
edited
by Mr Andre Duhaime. Catherine is currently co-
editing
the fourth issue of winterSPlN. Catherine
Mair
MANN,
JOY HEWITT: a haiku and tanka poet for five years,
concentrating
mostly on the traditional form. Joy is primarily
a
freeverse poet with the ability to create in the center of her
busy
noisy, world. For the creation of haiku and tanka, however,
she
needs absolute solitude, something very rare with a household
of
six, and therefore her output has been very small. What work
she
has produced has appeared in black bough, Modern Haiku,
Raw
Nervz, Lynx and Cicada. In 1995 she was one of the 19
international
winners of the Splendor Tanka Awards. She is the
editor
of a bi-monthly writers' newsletter and life member of the
Valley
Writers' Guild. When not writing she runs a junkstore in
Spencerville,
Ontario, Canada. Joy
Hewitt Mann
MARIANO,
THELMA:a winner of the International Tanka
Splendor
Awards in 1999 and 2000, Thelma has published
tanka
in North America, England and Japan.She lives in
Montreal,
Canada close to the rapids of the St. Lawrence
River,
an area that attracts migratory birds and a great
source
of inspiration for her poetry. Thelma
Mariano
MARTIN,
JOHN lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He is
an
alumnus of the universities of Auckland and Massey.
He
publishes and edits Scriptio, the poetry periodical of
the
Auckland Chevron Poets. His poems have been
published
in England, Canada, USA, Australia and New
Zealand.
John
Martin
MASTEN,
RIC: born in Carmel, California, in 1929. He has
toured
extensively over the last thirty years, reading his poetry
in
well over 400 colleges and universities in North America,
Canada,
and England. He is a well-known conference theme
speaker
and is a regular on many television and radio talk shows.
He
lives with his poet-wood carver wife Billie Barbara in the Big
Sur
mountains. He has 13 books to his credit. (see amazon.com)
Ric
Masten
McINTIRE,
SUZANNE: lives in Nashville, TN
and
works for the Metropolitan Nashville Police
Department
in the Identification Section. She will
be
a psychology graduate student this spring (2000).
Her
haiku will appear in the Heron's Nest in June
and
July and in Modern Haiku's Fall issue. Suzanne
McKINNON,
JACK. Born 1951 San Francisco. Became
interested
in Japanese culture while Uchi Deshi (house
student)
at Aikido West in Redwood City, received
Shodan
in 1985. Moved out of the Dojo in 1987. Began
working
as a gardener for Sunset Magazine 1987. Met
Christopher
Herold and began writing haiku around 1992.
Continues
to garden for Sunset and studies Landscape
Architecture
at U.C.Berkeley Extension. Married and lives
in
a wonderful cabin surrounded by redwoods in La Honda
California.
Jack
McKinnon
McLEOD,
DONALD E. has been writing and publishing
haiku
and senryu since 1986. His work has won numerous
awards
including 2nd place in The Haiku Society of
America's
best book awards (1987) for his Small Town/Big
City.
McLeod is a professional mime artist, and is known
to
many as the gorilla in the famous American Tourister
Luggage
Ads. He lives in Los Angeles. John
E. McLeod
MILL,
SUE: now lives in Queensland, Australia, and has
been
writing haiku for about seven years. With her husband,
she
travelled for six months in Europe with a baby and a
toddler,
then travelled around Australia in a caravan and
later
lived on a trimaran for three and a half years. It was after
she
became more settled that she took up writing. She
progressed
through short story writing and free verse to haiku.
Her
first publication was in Mainichi Daily News. Since then
she
has been published in eight other countries, was runner
up
in the first World Haiku Club competition and was third in
the
5th International Shiki Salon haiku competition. Sue
belongs
to Paper Wasp, a small but dedicated group that meets
once
a month. Paper Wasp produces a self-named quarterly
haiku
magazine. She is currently involved with the newly
formed
Australian Haiku Society, HaikuOz, as Publications Officer.
Sue
Mill Website:
HAIKU
OZ: THE AUSTRALIAN HAIKU SOCIETY
MOON,
CHRISTINA: Has been writing off & on for many years,
but
new to Haiku. Mother of 5 grown & 4 grandchildren.
Chrstina
lives in the woods and finds that Nature is
both
a friend & teacher. She is a hospice nurse. Christina
Moon
MOORE,
LENARD D.: a poet, fiction writer, playwright,
cultural
and literary critic, and teacher, Lenard was born
in
Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1958. He is the author
of
three volumes of poetry: Desert Storm: A Brief History
(1993),
Forever Home (1992), and The Open Eye (1985).
His
poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines,
including
Poetry Canada Review, Agni, and The Midwest
Quarterly.
His honors include a Tar Heel of the Week Award,
an
Indies Arts Award, Alumni Achievement Award, two
Haiku
Museum of Tokyo Awards, a Harold G. Henderson
Award,
and a Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award.
He
is Executive Chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society.
He
lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he teaches world
literature
and English at Shaw University. Lenard
D. Moore
MORDEN,
MATT: lives in rural West Wales where he
works
as a lecturer at a local Community College. He has
been
interested in haiku for the past eight years since
discovering
the British Haiku Society. His haiku and renga
have
appeared in UK magazines including Blithe Spirit,
Presence
and Snapshots. Forthcoming publications include
poems
in Modern Haiku and Lynx. As a learner of the Welsh
language,
he hopes one day to write haiku "yn Gymraeg".
Matt
Morden
NICOLAY,
SCOTT: a high school English teacher on the
sovereign
Navajo Nation, where he lives with his wife and three
children.
Born in New Jersey, Scott lived in New Mexico for eleven
years,
and taught Navajo students for the the last ten of those years.
During
that time, he founded the world's first high school poetry slam
team
(all Navajo) which went on to win three state titles and came in a
close
second in last year's National High School Poetry Slam
Championships
(the team is featured in the upcoming PBS documentary
_Poetic
License_). Scott’s translations of modern Japanese tanka (done
together
with Sumiko Hamlow) appear regularly in the Tanka Journal.
Scott
Nicolay
NOYES,
(Tom) H.F.: A retired New York psychologist now
residing
in Greece, Tom has earned a world-wide recognition
as
a respected haiku poet and a frequently published writer
on
the aesthetics of this genre. His work has been published
in
Japan, China, Romania, Croatia, Canada, England and New
Zealand,
is included in a number of world anthologies and
has
earned numerous awards. Author of My Rain, My Moon,
1983;
Star Carvings, 1983; The Blossoming Rudder, 1984-87;
Just
Floating Here, 1992; and Between Two Waves, 1996. Tom
has
also published several enlightening volumes of Favorite Haiku,
published
by and available from Red Moon Press.