Self-portrait
Dru Philippou (born Androulla Philippou, January 22, 1956, Strovolos, British Cyprus) is a Cypriot–British–American writer and poet with a lifelong career in education. Since 2005, she has gained recognition for her haiku, haibun, tanka, tanka prose, and free verse. A two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize in 2006, her work appears in eleven editions of the Red Moon Anthology and other notable publications. Philippou won an honorable mention in the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award 2008, and in 2024 she took first prize in the Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards. Following honourable mentions in three Genjuan International Haibun Contests (2015, 2017, and 2018), among others, her “Afterlife” won first place in the Haiku Society of America’s 2021 Haibun Awards, and “Pilgrimage” received the same recognition in 2023. Her tanka prose memoir, A Place to Land, was published in 2022. Philippou has lived in Taos, New Mexico, since 1995.
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