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Dan Curtis (born Daniel Jesse Curtis, April 3, 1944, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). With degrees from the University of Victoria and the University of Toronto, he served as a Canadian University Service Overseas International (Cuso International) volunteer secondary school teacher in Ghana. Now, after two decades as an independent documentary filmmaker, he is retired. Curtis published his first haiku in 2014. He has been a regular contributor to the Haiku Canada and Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies and has had work selected for several Red Moon anthologies as well as A New Resonance 14 (2025). His haiku and senryu have received honors in the Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards and the Autumn Moon Haiku Contest (both 2015); the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational (2015–2017), and the Snapshot Haiku Calendar Competition (2022–2023). His inaugural haiku collection, First Notes, was published in 2024. Curtis resides in Victoria, British Columbia.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.