Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including “Following the Moon to the Maple Land” (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and “A Life in Transition and Translation” (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.

Leon Tefft is a writer, poet and author of Haiku Evolution and Haiku Traditions from Greenville, South Carolina. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Tanka Society of America. You can see more of Leon’s work and connect with him at leontefft.com

Shiva is a doctor by profession, surgeon by passion and a mother at heart. She loves to wonder and ponder at small and big miracles of nature which transcend as life.

Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer who swapped the Valleys for the American East Coast. Her haiku and senryu appear in Modern Haiku, Presence, Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, and Akitsu Quarterly, among others; she was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation and recently received a Golden Pea Award. She is the author of Pressed Between Palms (Nun Prophet Press) with a forthcoming collection from Cuttlefish Books.