Photo from Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival website
Marianne Paul (born March 6, 1955, Brockville, Ontario, Canada), Canadian poet, novelist, freelance writer, and bookbinder. She combines art forms to create handcrafted and bespoke chapbooks and founded Paper Heron Press, a micro publishing house that creates handmade books of short-form poetry. Paul works with minimalist poetry forms, primarily haiku and haiga, both digitally and manually, often incorporating mixed media such as collage. She is the author of Body Weight: A Collection of Haiku and Art, which won First Place in the Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Book and Chapbook Awards in 2019. Paul also won honors in the Betty Drevniok Awards and the Kusamakura Haiku Competition (both 2014); took First Place in the Shambhala Times Midwinter Haiku Contest (2015); and was Top Winner in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Invitational Contest, Canada Section (2016) and recipient of a Sakura Award (2024). Her art work won the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, Mixed Media Category (2016). Paul resides in Kitchener, Ontario.
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