Phooto by Andreas Brandt
Deborah Karl-Brandt (born Deborah Barbara Karl, November 26, 1981, Siegen, NRW, Germany). With a PhD in Scandinavian languages and literature, she works as a freelance author and lecturer at the Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg. She writes in German and English, and her haiku have been published in Haiku Heute, Sommergras, and Chrysanthemum as well as in leading British, French, Canadian, American, and Ghanaian periodicals in print and online. A chapbook, Der Geruch von Harz, was published in 2023 and a full-length collection, Wild Rabbit Moon, in 2026. Karl-Brandt won Second Place in the 2021 Pula (Croatia) Film Festival Haiku Contest and the Grand Prize (Overseas Division), Star Haiku Contest (World Haiku Association, Japan, 2025). Haiku of hers have received Touchstone Award nominations (2023 and 2024). She has has been guest editor for Haiku Dialogue since 2023, was selected as a Confluence Fellow for 2025–2026, and has been listed among the European Top 100 most creative haiku authors (2019, 2021–2024). She lives in Sinzig, NRW, Germany.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.