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Allyson Whipple (born Allyson Mary Whipple, April 11, 1984, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.), American higher education administrator, pilates instructor, poet, haikai poet, editor, and organizer. She has published more than 200 haiku, senryu, haibun, linked forms (primarily tan-renga and rengay) in leading journals and anthologies since 2013. Following two chapbooks of free verse poetry, Whipple’s first haiku chapbook, Postcards from Texas, was published in 2023. She served as board president of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and coedited four editions of the Texas Poetry Calendar, and cocreated the interactive fiction game Choice: Texas. Whipple is the editor and host of The Culinary Saijiki blog and podcast, which explores the intersection of food, haiku, and the seasons, and founder of the online journal Haiku Girl Summer. She has also served as editor of the Haiku Society of America Newsletter since 2023. Whipple resides in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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