Founders

KAT LEHMANN & ROBIN SMITH

​Editorial Team Members

KAT LEHMANN

Co-Chief

​Kat Lehmann (she/her) is the author of three books of poetry: free verse, micropoetry, and haibun. She serves as a panelist for The Haiku Foundation's ​Touchstone Distinguished Books Award.

Kat is a winner of The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2020). Her haiku is included in the anthologies Haiku 2022, Haiku 2023, and A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku.

Read Kat’s work, including her experimental “sudo-ku” multi-haiku form, on her website.  Social: @SongsOfKat.

ROBIN SMITH

Co-Chief

​Robin Smith (they/them) is a disabled artist who spends their days writing and drawing themselves into the bodies of other animals and plants. 

Their work has earned numerous accolades including  The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2019).  

Robin is an Associate Editor at Yavanika Press. They also serve as Coordinator for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems.

Social: @komadorihaiku; Linktree

MARCIE WESSELS

Associate

​Marcie Wessels (she/her) is the author of two traditionally published children’s picture books. She began writing haiku in March 2020. Since then, her poetry has appeared in numerous esteemed journals. Several of her poems have even been nominated for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award! Marcie lives in San Diego, California with her husband and their two children. When Marcie isn’t reading or writing, she enjoys going to the beach, riding bikes, practicing Pilates and ELDOA, and playing word games like Scrabble.

Support Team Members
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ANETTE CHANEY

Twitter: Digital Engagement

​Anette Chaney (she/her) is a retired psychiatric nurse with a B.A. in English. She is in the HSA’s mentorship program and her haiku appeared in the mentorship anthology, The Unexpected Weight. Her haiku/senryu have appeared in Cold Moon Journal, whiptail, Poetry Pea Podcast, and Haiku in Action. She lives in a small rural community outside of Harrison, Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. Her interests include photography, watercolor, bookbinding, Native American flute, and everything nature.

KATI MOHR

Newsletter Manager
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Kati Mohr (she/they), born 1976, is a disabled, intuitive artist, known online as pi & anne, who lives in Germany with her family and two rabbits. She likes to jump into old ponds to pull up lost cargo, mostly in the form of poetry (but not exclusively!). Her art aims at tracing the filters humans apply; as how we see things says more about us than about the things themselves. Being a member of her city’s disability council is one of the means she chooses to empower and support people. Her heart beats for minimalist art, coffee, cuddles & pancakes.

RICH SCHILLING

Proofreader
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Rich Schilling (he/him) is an award-winning poet, husband, dad, musician, and runner living in Webster Groves, MO. He has been published in numerous haiku journals and a few anthologies including: wind flowers: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2019, Haiku 2021, and Haiku 2022. Proofreading has been his day job for over twenty years. 

Instagram: @rjssix.

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​Alumni
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• Vandana Parashar: Feature Columnist - (2022-2023)
• Pippa Phillips: Guest Co-Editor - Issue 3 (2022)
• Jonathan Roman: Guest Co-Editor - Issue 3, Issue 5 (2022)​
  
• Raghav Prashant Sundar: Operations Manager - (2022-2023)