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Stella Pierides (born August 21, 1952, Athens, Greece), retired British psychotherapist, poet, writer, and artist. Her poetical work—primarily haikai— has appeared in international journals, been translated into many languages, and featured in A New Resonance 10 (2017) among other anthologies. Also in 2017, she won First Prize in the 6th Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest (Romania). The Garden of Absence, her book of micropoetry, haiku, and senryu (2012), and Of This World: 48 Haibun (2017) were honored in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards. Pierides managed The Haiku Foundation’s Per Diem: Daily Haiku feature, 2012–2018, and served on the Board of Directors (2014–2024). Since 2015 she has been involved in the THF Haiku and Brain project, investigating brain dynamics in haiku comprehension, and she conceived and coordinated the Haiku for Parkinson’s project (2024). She was part of the launch team for Haikupedia and served as managing editor, 2019–2020. Stella Pierides resides in Neusäß, Germany, and London, U.K.
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