SANDERS,
LEWIS: Former Editor of The Red
Pagoda,
A Journal and American Association
of
Haiku. Haiku published in Dragonfly, A
Quarterly
of Haiku, Frogpond, Modern Haiku,
Brussels
Sprouts, Ko, Parnassus, A Literary
Journal,
Virtual Image, Lynx. Lewis has written
several
renga with Carl Brennan. Lewis
Sanders
SAVER,
MERRY: a high school English teacher and
occasional
novice haiku poet in Glendale, Arizona.
Merry’s
haiku have appeared in Jane Reichhold’s AHA
site
and have earned awards there. M.
Saver
SHEIRER,
JOHN: teaches writing and public speaking
full-time
at Asnuntuck Community-Technical College in
Enfield,
CT, USA, and part-time in the Graduate Liberal
Studies
Program at Wesleyan University in Middletown,
CT,
USA. His poems have appeared in more than 250
literary
journals since 1982, and he is the author of seven
collections
of poetry, primarily haiku, senryu, and tanka.
He
is also the editor and publisher of Tiny Poems Press,
which
focuses on haiku and related poetry.
John
Sheirer Website: JOHN
SHEIRER'S HOMEPAGE
SMITH,
KEVIN: a law professor at The University of
Memphis
in Memphis, Tennessee. Although he has written
extensively
on law-related topics, he began writing haiku in
April
2000. Kevin Smith
SMITH,
NANCY S.: lives in Athens and is a
poet
and her children's mother, "be they poems
of
flesh or pen", Nancy did not PLOP into the
pond
of poetry. She says she "rather slid in with
a
small jingle at age 12 (a year of two after I learned
to
read, then began school)." She adds, "I am honored
to
sail forth few haiku here into Elizabeth’s light.
If
you read haiku magazines you will occasionally
see
me there, over the years. Sometimes with honors,
sometimes
not. Nancy S. Smith
SPANYER,
S. R.: lives in Louisville, KY. He has an
MA
in German languages and literature. A featured
reader
at Twice Told Coffeehouse, where his haiku
and
senryu have won two local SLAM!s, he is a
member
of two workshops, the Kentucky Writers'
Coalition,
and the HSA. He enjoyed a residency at
the
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Mount
St.
Francis, IN, in May 1998 and received a mini-grant
from
the Kentucky Arts Council in July 1999. His poetry
has
appeared or is scheduled for publication in Frogpond,
Cicada,
Haiku Headlines, Woodnotes, Tundra, the
Piedmont
Literary Review, Modern Haiku, Point Judith
Light,
Japanophile, South by Southeast, RAW NerVZ,
Ko,
Acorn, and Still as well as online at Virtual Bardstown
Road.
The selections in Haiku Light are from his
Afterthoughts,
a work in progress. S.R.
Spanyer
SPRIGGS,
RUBY: of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ruby's haiku,
tanka
and renga can be found in leading journals and anthologies,
including
Erotic Haiku, Anthos, The Haiku Handbook, The
Canadian
Haiku Anthology, Round Renga Round, Tanka
Splendor,
Haiku Moment, The Haiku Hundred, How to Write and
Publish
Poetry, and Four Seasons. Ruby has earned a number of
awards
and served as editor for Haiku Canada Newsletter (1990 -
1992),
and as co-editor with Dorothy Howard for Raw Nervz, 1994.
Regretfully,
Ruby (also a talented artist) died in 2001.
STANFORD, SUE: Sue Stanford
STEVENSON,
JOHN (49) is from Ithaca, New York and
currently
lives in the Albany, New York area (Village of
Nassau).
He has a son, James (14) and a goddaughter,
Seneca
(5). Employed as an administrator by the New
York
State Office of Mental Health, his personal
interests
include Playback Theatre and poetry. Member
of
the Haiku Society of America (1993), Haiku Poets of
Northern
California (1995), Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
(1996),
HSA Northeast Metro Regional Coordinator
(1995,
1996), HSA Members* Anthology Editor
(1997),
South by Southeast Book Review Editor (1997).
John
Stevenson
STEVENSON,
RICHARD: an established Canadian
poet
with twelve full length books and a number of
chapbooks
to his credit, but he says he seldom
writes
short things in the imagist/haiku/senryu/
tanka
tradition. His most recent books include A
Murder
of Crows: New & Selected Poems (Black
Moss
Press, 1998 ); Nothing Definite Yeti (YA verse,
Ekstasis
Editions, 1999 ). His twelfth book, “Live
Evil:
A Homage To Miles Davis” ( Thistledown Press,
2000
) is now available. Richard says, “I'm still
sloggin'
away in the trenches at Lethbridge
Community
College, teaching Canadian Literature,
Creative
Writing, Business Communication, and
starting
next semester , Children's Literature."
Richard
Stevenson
STEYN,
MARIA:lives in South Africa with her husband,
young
daughter, two collies, two cats and a variety of wild
garden
birds. As a student, she had poetry published in the
university's
literary magazine, won a poetry competition,
and
became editor of the student magazine for literature. She
attained
an honors degree in Philosophy and then furthered
her
studies to become a teacher. After a few years of teaching
in
Soweto and various independent private schools, and some
more
years raising a small child, she has taken up writing
again
in 1999. She has a passion for poetry, the fine arts,
music,
children, books and nature. Her poetry has appeared in
the
Templar Phoenix Literary Review, The Heron's Nest, Haiku
Harvest
and Haiku Light. Chameleon
STOLLER,
NECA: lives in south Georgia. She and Laura
Young
earned the Grand Prize in the Haiku Society of
America
1997 Renku Contest for their collaborative work
"The
Turkey's Wattle." Neca has published two poetry
journals
"Bound by Red Clay," "Piedmont Stubble," and
an
instructional book for teachers, "How to Write Haiku."
Neca
Stollar Websites:
HAIKU
CUPBOARD AMERICAN
POETRY
SUZUKI, RYOSUKE: Email: Ryosuki Suzuki
TAYLOR,
JAMES C.: co-editor Persimmon, retired
administrator
Detroit Public Schools. Haiku lover. Adult
Ed.
Student at Pewabic Pottery whose work is displayed
in
the Detroit area. JaMaTay
TAYLOR,
MARY C.: co-editor Persimmon, a haiku
semiannual.
Rare book seller (semiretired), t.a.. (no longer)
Wayne
State University English Dept. Has taught haiku in
Grosse
Pointe, MI community ed., and the MIchigan Prison
Program.
Been a reader at Wayne State's Poetry Forum. Will
read
from Persimmon, May 1998 at the Detroit Public Library.
Translates
Italian novels, former co-editor of Triage.
JaMaTay
TEBO,
CINDY: a Missouri native, Cindy has worked as a sales
representative
for TWA for the past ten years. Her poetry has
appeared
most recently in Frogpond and American Tanka.
Cindy
Tebo
TIPTON,
JAMES: lives in the canyons of western Colorado
where
he keeps bees and writes poems. His poems have
appeared
in Haiku, Cicada, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Mayfly,
Woodnotes,
Lynx and in various English-language haiku
anthologies
including The Haiku Anthology (Doubleday, 1974),
The
Haiku Handbook (McGraw Hill, 1985), The Haiku Anthology
(Simon
& Schuster, 1986), and The Haiku Handbook (Kodansha,
1989),
and in a collection, Bittersweet (Cold Mountain Press
1975).
James has recently completed a senryu collection, Finding
Her
Dark Hair on the Blue Pillow, and is currently completing a
tanka
collection, All the Horses of Heaven.
TODD,
MICHAEL: lives in Schomberg, Ontario, Canada.
He
recently took up writing haiku again after many years.
Michael
has always been a fan of the short poems whether
they
be Yeats' or Pound's work. He says, "I don't know what
it
is, but all my work has tended to be very imagistic and
short.
Perhaps I like the way haiku are resistant to meaning. I like
this
quote by Barthes on the subject of haiku: '[For in haiku] it's
always
the same problem: to keep meaning from taking hold, but
without
abandoning meaning, under the threat of falling into the
worst
meaning, non-meaning." Michael is editor of Profiles Magazine.
Michael
Todd