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.

Minal Sarosh is an awarded Indian English poet, novelist and haikuist. She has published two novels, Soil for My Roots ( 2015) and Wicked Money (2020) . And her two poetry collections are Mitosis & Other Poems ( 1992) and A Lizard’s Tail and Other Poems (2020).

Hifsa Ashraf is an award-winning multilingual poet, author, editor, and social activist from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She is the author of six individual and four collaborative micropoetry books. She received the Touchstone Award (2021) and Honourable Mentions in the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (2020) and Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award (2021).

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

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy is a lover of poetry, languages, nature, wildlife and crystals.