Self-portrait
Kelly Sargent (born Kelly Colleen Barnes, December 30, 1970, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), a hard-of-hearing American poet, artist, and editor. Since starting to write short-form poetry in 2021, nearly 200 of her haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, and haiga have been published in dozens of journals and anthologies. Her work has won honors in The Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Awards 2022; the Golden Haiku Poetry Contest (2022 and 2024); the H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (2023); the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Competition (2023), the Mukai Haiku Festival contest (2023); The Haiku Calendar competition (2024); and the Harold G. Henderson Awards (2024). In addition to two memoirs in verse and a book for children, she has published a haikai collection, Bookmarks (2023). Sargent serves as creative nonfiction editor for The Bookends Review and was named coeditor for #FemkuMag in 2024. She lives in Williston, Vermont.
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