Cathy Drinkwater Better (born January 4, 1952, Tuckahoe, Westchester county, New York, U.S.A.; married name Cathy L. Walker), newspaper reporter and columnist, humorist, editor for STEM journals, and creator of books for children and adults. She has been publishing haikai and tanka since 1989 in the leading journals and the members’ anthologies of the Haiku Society of America; Haiku Canada; the Towpath Haiku Society; and the Haiku Poets of Central Maryland (which she cofounded); as well as eight Red Moon Anthologies; Higginson’s Haiku World; Forrester’s Gatherings, and Kamesan’s World Haiku Anthology. She has been honored in the Porad, Robert Frost Poetry Festival, Zen Garden, Drevniok, Brady, and Irish Haiku Society competitions. Her published poetry books include The Moon Tonight (1996); The Sky is All There Is (1999) and Hibiki (2010), a collaboration with Belgian poet Geert Verbeke. A co-owner of Black Cat Press (2004–2015), Better has edited collections for the HPCM, Tanka Society of America, and Haiku Canada. A third-degree black belt in karatedo and certified teacher of t’ai chi ch’uan, she now lives in Pikesville, Maryland.
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