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Antoinette Cheung (traditional Chinese 張冬眉, born April 2, Hong Kong), Chinese Canadian poet and healthcare researcher. She has been publishing her haiku and senryu in major international journals since 2020 and has had work selected for the anthologies of the Haiku Society of America, the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, Haiku North America, and Red Moon Press, including A New Resonance 14 (2025). Her work received first prizes in Haiku Canada’s Betty Drevniok Award (2021) and Femku Mag’s Marlene Mountain Memorial Contest (2024), a Bashō-an Award from the Bashō Memorial Museum in Tokyo (2022), high commendation in three H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contests (2021–2023) and the Spiess Memorial Awards (2021 and 2023), and top honors in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival and Trailblazer contests (2023). Cheung is a coeditor of Prune Juice senryu journal and a founding coeditor of Confluence, a haiku journal, as well as coordinator of the HSA Social Club for under-40s poets new to haiku. She resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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