BABUSCI,
PAMELA A.: an internationally published haiku
&
tanka poet winning numerous awards, including The
Museum
of Haiku Literature Award in 1995 and
International
Tanka Splendor Awards in 1996-1999 and
2001.
Pamela’s poetry has appeared in the anthologies In
The
Ship's Wake, Red Moon Anthology, The Art of Haiku
2000
and The Basho Festival Anthology, among others.
She
along with Kay F.Anderson helped illustrate Full Moon
Tide:
The Best of Tanka Splendor. Pamela’s sumi-e paintings
will
appear in the next four issues of HSA Newsletter.
Pamela
Babusci
BAKER,
WINONA: has won international literary awards
for
her poetry. In 1989 she won the Japanese Foreign
Minister’s
Grand Prize for haiku among entries submitted
from
around the world. Baker’s work has been featured on
Radio
Japan’s “Haiku Corner,” on CBC Radio shows,
“Morningside”
and “Gabereau.” She is the author of five
books
of poetry, her latest, Even a Stone Breathes – Haiku
and
Senryu is published by Oolichan Books. Her work is
included
in about 50 anthologies. Winona
Baker
BALDWIN,
G.E.: a 28 year old graduate student residing
in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gary plans to get married
in
June 1998. Works in a bookstore when not in school,
and
to stay in shape, he trains for marathons. Gary
says
he has been "pursuing haiku as a hobby (an
obsession?)
for about three years." Gary
Baldwin
BENDER,
DEBRA WOOLARD: says she is “generally
an
unknown artist, writer, and poet within the major roles
of
wife, mother, and grandmother, residing in Orlando,
Florida.
Current position: eBay seller - independently
auctioning
the past.” Debra's prose and poetry have been
published
during the 1970s and early 80s, primarily in
Voices
International and in several small magazines and
college
presses. To her astonishment, one of her first
published
prose works, "World Within A World," was
awarded
inclusion in an annual issue of the voluminous
tome,
'Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of
American
Poetry' Produced by Alan Pater. She has been
writing
haiku and other styles of verse since the mid 1960's.
Unbent
on fame, she has not submitted poetry of any kind
towards
publication for several years. She is now, once again,
writing
and submitting new works for publication. She says
that
writing haiku is her private retreat into the world-at-large.
Debra
Bender Website:
PAPER
LANTERNS
BENEDICT,
ALICE: has been writing haiku and renku for 8
years.
Alice says, "My enjoyment of poetry has been given
a
great boost by participation in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society,
the
Marin Renku Group, Haiku Poets of Northern California,
and
other events (such as the Asilomar Retreats and Haiku North
America)
where poets gather to write, read, and talk." Since 1996
Alice
has coordinated the contests of the Haiku Society of
America,
as its 2nd Vice President. Closer to home, in California,
she
has organized the Asilomar Retreats, and last year, a
day-long
seminar in Berkeley on writing International renku.
She
has also edited haiku anthologies and articles on writing
renku.
Alice's renku have appeared in Lynx, on the YT Society
web
page and elsewhere. Her haiku appear in Geppo, anthologies
of
the various haiku societies, Sundays at Four, the EPN, and
so
forth. She adds, "My other interests include performing as a
singer
and keyboard player, gardens,and all kinds of natural history.
Alice
Benedict
BENEDICT,
ALEX: first began writing poetry in the mid-sixties and
was
introduced to haiku at the University of Alaska in 1967. Alex is
a
past-president and current board member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku
Society,
and is also on the advisory board of the American Haiku
Archives.
He enjoys collaborative projects, especially poetry. His
renku
appear in Lynx, on the web page of 'still', and the Yuki Teikei
Society
web page. Alex's haiku have appeared in Geppo, Haiku
Headlines,
Woodnotes, Brussels Sprout, Sundays at Four, the EPN,
and
various anthologies and other publications. Presently, Alex is
exploring
ways to write collaborative poetry live on the internet.
Alex
Benedict Website:
YUKI
TEIKEI HAIKU SOCIETY
BERRY,
ERNEST J.: Born, raised and educated in Christchurch,
New
Zealand, Ernest served as a medic in the Korean War
(1950)
and spend the remainder of that decade on horseback
as
a cowboy/shepherd in the high country of Poverty Bay
&
Canterbury. For kicks, he played scrabble & harmonica –
"separately",
he says. In 1960, he started a business in
Auckland
importing & exporting industrial & domestic
sewing
machines. Except for an adventurous sabbatical in
Israel
in 1974 (where he met a certain lady), he remained
in
business until retiring to a remote Mexican beach in
1983.
That's where, during the contemplative sunset hours,
he
first succumbed to poetry. In 1993, Ernest returned to
NZ
to join that "certain lady" who, a year later, gave him
a
copy of "A Haiku Menagerie" by Stephen Addiss. Ernest
says
he "took to this 'new' haiku like slime to a frogpond."
His
first haiku was published in 1995. Since then, Ernest's
work
has appeared in numerous haiku journals and has
earned
a number of awards. Ernest
Berry
BETTER,
CATHY DRINKWATER.: has been writing for
readers
of all ages for more than two decades. Her haiku,
senryu
and other Japanese forms have appeared in Modern
Haiku,
Frogpond, Point Judith Light, Brussels Sprout,
black
bough, and others in the U.S., Canada and Great
Britain
since 1989. An editor at Ottenheimer Publishers,
Inc.,
Cathy works with books ranging from children's
storybooks
to adult health and medicine, cookbooks,
new
age topics, and everything in between, as well as
developing
original proposals for books in a wide variety
of
areas. She is also an experienced newspaper reporter/
photographer.
She has written for several daily, weekly
and
bi-weekly newspapers in the central Maryland area
since
1984. Her features, articles, photographs, poetry
and
light verse, for both children and adults, have also
appeared
in publications in the U.S., Canada and
Great
Britain since 1976; including Reader's Digest, St.
Anthony
Messenger, the Baltimore Sun, The City Paper
(Baltimore),
Martial Arts Masters, Inside Karate, and
Humpty
Dumpty Magazine for Children. Author of two
commercially
published books, Don't Hit Your Brother
With
Your Mouth Full, Acme Press, Westminister, Md.,
1995,
a humor collection compiled from her long- running
and
awarding-winning newspaper column; and the moon
tonight,
Los Hombres Press, San Diego, Ca., 1996, a
collection
of her poems in a Japanese minimalist style.
She
recently left her job as a writer/communications
specialist
for a statewide labor organization--where she
not
only covered the state legislature and other topics
for
the union's newspaper, but wrote and designed
booklets
and printed materials of all descriptions, and
did
computer typesetting and layout, printing press
and
bindery--to take on the editorial position at
Ottenheimer
Publishers. Cathy continues to freelance
poetry,
newspaper features and other writing; and
beginning
in Feb., 1998, she has a regular spot as humor
columnist
for the new Carroll Families magazine. The
mother
of three and grandmother of one, Cathy lives
and
writes in Baltimore County, MD, USA. She is a black
belt
in shorinjiryu karatedo, and also assists in teaching
Yang
style ta'i chi ch'uan. Cathy
D. Better
BOND,
SUSAN: a multidisciplinary artist from Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan,
Canada. The fruits of her labour are to be
found
in songwriting, composing & arranging, poetry,
bookmaking,
paper collage and graphic design. She is
an
independent recording artist whose music has been recorded
by
and featured on CBC Radio. Her haiku have been published
in
the U.S. and in Canada, and she designs haiku sheets and
brochures
for Haiku Canada. As composer, she was commissioned
to
write an anniversary piece for a combined 120+-piece choir and
orchestra,
which was premiered in April '99. She also recently
completed
a privately commissioned set of handmade books in
collaboration
with Regina photographer Sandra Butel. Daily life
includes
a part time work in the music industry, and her family,
including
four children. She is currently working on more handmade
books,
a compilation CD of her own songwriting, more music and
arranging,
paper collage for book illustrations, and always... haiku,
tanka
and renga. As she says in one of her tanka: "oh how the little/
determines
the large". subi
BRADY,
PETER: lives in Gatineau, Quebec near Ottawa.
Peter
has been writing haiku and senryu seriously since
1986,
submits occasionally to haiku magazines and has
given
readings. Prior to retirement, he worked for five
years
as a radio operator in northern Quebec, and
eventually
as copyeditor of technical documents for
Transport
Canada and Nav Canada in Ottawa. Recently
he
became a Reiki practitioner, third degree. Peter
Brady
BRAKEE,
GERLA: grew up in a small farming
community
in Indiana until her parents returned
to
the Netherlands, where she has lived ever since.
Gerla,
mother of three wonderful children ages 22,
20
and 18, works as a para-legal. Until she discovered
haiku
and tanka on a website, she says she had never
heard
of these genres. Now, writing haiku and tanka
has
become a way of life for her. Her work has
appeared
in Woodpecker and Poetry In The Light.
Gerla
Brakkee
BROOKS,
MARK: lives in Temple, Texas, with his wife
(Karen)
and his two boys: Dylan (1997) and Casey (2000).
He
recently "retired" from his telecommuting job in the
software
industry to be a stay-at-home dad for his boys.
Mark
is a member of the Haiku Society of America, the
British
Haiku Society, the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association,
and
the World Haiku Club. His haikai have appeared in
many
leading haiku journals, both online and off. Mark¹s
haiku-related
projects include the creation of an internet
presence
for the World Haiku Association, a moderator¹s
role
on the new shiki-temp mailing list, and the editor of
haijinx,
an international, web-based journal that examines
haiku
with humor. Mark¹s personal web site includes the
unofficial
newcomer¹s guide to haiku mailing lists, a list
of
online haiku resources, a list of haikai books, and Mark¹s
published
haikai.
Personal:
Website: MARK'S
SITE Email: Mark
Brooks
Other:
Website: haijinx
Email:
Mark
Brooks, haijinx Ed.
BROWN,
JASON SANFORD: a 26 year old poet who sees
magnificence
in the commonplace. He is still amazed
when
he manages to get published and hopes to publish
his
manuscripts of haiku someday. Jason
Sanford Brown
BRUCE,
DAWN: a Sydney, Australia poet, Dawn has
had
over 100 poems of free verse published throughout
Australia
in literary magazines, journals, anthologies and
newspapers.
Also, her haiku has been published in five
Australian
haiku magazines. Her haiku and free verse have
won
a number of prizes. Dawn is the co-ordinator for the
Somerset
Poets, a workshop and study group. Their first
anthology,
'Outside Looking In' was published Dec. 2000
and
won an award for a collection of work in the FAW
Victorian
comp. 2001. Dawn
Bruce
BUETTNER,
MARJORIE: writing haiku, tanka, sijo and
haibun;
Marjorie’s most recent work has appeared in Tundra,
American
Tanka, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Hummingbird,
Acorn,
Lynx, Raw NerVZ (Canada), still (U.K.) and
Woodpecker
(N.L.). She has a tanka included in the newest
anthology
_100 Tanka_ published in the U.K. She has won
a
number of awards for her sijo in the Florida Poetry Society
and
the Arizona Poetry Society contests. Marjorie lives in
Minneapolis
with her husband and three children.
Marjorie
Buettner
BUKVA,
BORIVOJ: born in Karlovac , December, 1948.
By
profession, B.sc.of engineering . His work appears in a
number
of literary magazines, periodicals and newspapers,
as
well as on radio and TV. A member of Croation Haiku
Society,
Society of Haiku Poets-Rijeka , Haiku Society of
Slovenia,
International Friendship Club of Croatia-Japan,
International
Friendship Club of Yugoslavia-Japan, and the
World
Haiku Association. He is also a painter, having had 28
Exhibitions
of his work and he has participated in 99 collective
expositions
in Rijeka and abroad . Illustrated many books and
arranged
illustrations for Zbornik Ludbreg, The Ludbreg Collection
in
1999 and 2000 . Received numerous awards. His poetry
appears
in anthologies inland and abroad. Borivoj has also
published
many lectures about esoteric and theosophy.
Borivoj Bukva