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Anne Elise Burgevin (born October 4, 1960, Newark, New York, U.S.A.), American creative writing teacher, editor, and poet. Author of two collections of haiku, Frozen Earth (2018) and Sunny Uplands (2024), she also publishes haibun, haiga, and tanka. She serves as an associate editor of The Heron’s Nest and a judge of the annual Hexapod Haiku Contest sponsored by the Pennsylvania State University Frost Entomological Museum. Burgevin was a writer-in-residence at Pennsylvania University’s Shaver’s Creek Environmental Education Center in 2022, and a selection of her haiku has been published on its website. She is currently designing an online haiku journal for youth called The Black Pebble for which three of her creative writing graduates will serve as associate editors. A native of the Finger Lakes region of New York and former resident of the Seven Mountains area of central Pennsylvania, she now resides in Chicago, Illinois.
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