REICHHOLD,
JANE: Founder of AHA Books Publishing
Company,
1987. Publisher of Mirrors - International Haiku
Forum,
a magazine distributed worldwide 1988-1995. Editor
of
Geppo, the periodical for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
of
United States and Canada, 1991-1994. Co-editor of LYNX,
a
journal of renga and tanka since 1992. Editor of "Poet Tree"
of
the COAST, Gualala, CA. Author of 20 poetry collections
and
co-author of 3 others. Twice winner of the Museum
of
Haiku Literature Award (Tokyo). Three-time winner
of
an HSA Merit Book Award: Tigers In A Teacup, Silence,
and
A Dictionary of Haiku. Winner of numerous haiku
awards,
including second place in the 1987 JAL contest
and
the Itoen Tea Company Award, Japan. Jane
Reichhold
Website:
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POETRY
RISTIC,
DRAGAN J.: born in 1948 in Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia,
Dragan
is a teacher of German language and a literature translator
(many
books, the most important being "Anthology of the shortest
German
stories," Belgrade 1993.) Writes short stories and haiku.
Books:
"From the Diary of an Haijin", Prosveta,Nis, 1995;
"Having
an Obsession," senryu, Punta, Nis 2000. Since 1996 he
is
Editor in chief of haiku magazine "Haiku novine." His haiku, senryu,
haibun,
and renga have appeared in Yugoslav haiku magazines and
collections
in Japan, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Poland,
Italy,
Romania, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Greece, Slovenia, Holland,
Czechy,
Norway and France. Presented in: "Haiku World" edited by
W.J.Higginson,
USA 1997; "Rabengekraechze" Ingo Cesaro,
Germany
1998; German DHG Anthology "Haiku 1998: "Knots"
Anthology
of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry, edited by D.
Anakiev
and J.Kacian 1999; "A Piece of the Sky: Haiku from an
air-raid
shelter, Edited by Dimitar Anakiev, Prague 1999;
"Groschenge
fallen" Ingo Cesaro, Germany 2000; "An Exchange
of
Gifts," New Zealand Poetry Society annual anthology 2001. Most
important
haiku awards: First Prize on AZAMI's Spring Haiku Contest
(Japan
1997), Highly Commended, James Hackett Award (England
1997),
Award of Special Recognition, Haiku Headlines (USA 1997),
First
Prize on ITALIAN Spring Contest 1999, Honourable Mentions,
HIA
Haiku Contest (Japan 1999), The Inspirational Award, ASHIA
Haiku
Festa (Japan1999), First Prize on The 34th A-Bomb Day
Memorial
Haiku Meeting (Japan 2000), Certificate for Merit, Japan
Society
on Water Environment (Japan 2001), Honourable Mentions,
Kaji
Aso Contest (USA 2001) Dragan
J. Ristic
ROHRIG,
CAROLYNE: lives in Northern California with
her
husband, two teenagers, a beagle, and a mustached
parakeet.
She is a freelance newspaper writer when she
is
not walking the hound, but her greatest love is haiku.
She
discovered the pleasures of haiku in 1997 while surfing
the
net and she's never turned back. Carolyne's work has
been
published in *frogpond*, Black Bough, Geppo, and
Poetalk.
Pending publications are Canadian Writer's Journal,
Modern
Haiku, Tundra, and Piedmont Literary Review.
Carolyne
Rohrig
RONAN:
A philosophy major graduate, University of
Chicago.
Before retirement, she taught English, psychology
and
algebra in high schools and colleges. When enjoying
the
outdoors or listening to music, she finds the impetus
to
try to mold feelings/ideas/observations into words that
sometimes
become a haiku or tanka. She says, "They are,
for
me, the result of enjoying moments of deep focus on
'divine
details.' " Since 1980, her haiku/senryu and
tanka
have appeared in numerous publications, including
Modern
Haiku, Lynx and American Tanka. Ronan