Marie Summers, 2024
Self-portrait
Marie Summers (born Anna Marie Jacob, January 10, 1975, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A.), procurement pre-qualification manager for a design/engineering/construction firm and crocheter/quilter/crafter. Co-founder and owner 2000–2013 of Shadow Poetry, an online writing resource for poets. She is the author of multiple books and chapbooks featuring haiku and free-verse poetry, editor of the print SP Quill Magazine (2004–2009) and the journal of short Asian verse White Lotus (2005–2009). Her writings have appeared widely in periodicals, notably Acorn, The Aurorean, Bottle Rockets, Chrysanthemum, Frogpond, Full Moon Magazine, Haiku Harvest, Haiku Ireland, Haiku Scotland, Hermitage, Hummingbird, Kokako, Lynx, Mariposa, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Moonset, Paper Wasp, Wisteria, Poetic Hours, Poetic Reflections, Presence, Roadrunner, Shamrock, Simply Haiku, Skyline, The Heron’s Nest, The Storyteller, The Unrorean, Tinywords, World Haiku Review, and Yellow Moon. Her most prized haiku honor is the Mayor of Ashiya Award, International Haiku Festa sponsored by the Kyoshi Memorial Museum of Literature in Ashiya, Japan. Summers has resided in Collinsville, Illinois, since 2021.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.