Self-portrait
Matthew Markworth (born Matthew Daniel Markworth, August 27, 1976, Warrensburg, Missouri, U.S.A.), American ecommerce entrepreneur, former senior investment specialist with a major brokerage firm, and poet. Appearing in print and online journals since 2017, his work can be found in anthologies including The Ohio Haiku Anthology (2020); Lee Gurga and Scott Metz’s annual Haiku compendia for 2020–2023; A New Resonance 12 (2021); and the Red Moon Anthology (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023), among others. Markworth has achieved the rare honor of winning First Place in the Robert Spiess Memorial Awards (2019), the Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards (2019), and the Harold G. Henderson Contest (2024). A haiku of his was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, another won a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2023), a third was shortlisted for a Touchstone (2020), and he has received two “Favorite Haiku of Issue” awards from Modern Haiku. Markworth is the founder and curator of the Midwest Haiku Traveling Rock Garden; he resides in Miamisburg, Ohio.
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