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Scott Metz (born Scott Robert Metz, November 28, 1976, Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), poet, editor, and teacher. Earned a degree in English and later (2003–2006) taught English in Tsuyama, Japan,. His avant-garde, experimental, and exploratory haikai has been featured in Modern Haiku (2007), anthologized in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (2013), and discussed in Richard Gilbert’s The Disjunctive Dragonfly (2013). Following chapbooks in 2005 and 2009, Metz published two full-length collections, Lakes & Now Wolves (2012) and ea’s e (2022). His anthologies of English-language haiku coedited with Lee Gurga have been honored with three Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards and one HSA Merit Book Award, and his solo books each won an honorable mention in the Touchstones. In 2024 he received the Mysterium Magnum Award from Heliosparrow. Metz was the first editor of the THF blog Troutswirl (2006–2007), edited Roadrunner (R’r), 2004–2009, and was founding editor of is/let, 2014–2021. He resides in South Beach, Oregon.
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