Photo by Daniel Hooven
Frank Hooven (born Frank Thomas Hooven, July 2, 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), retired information technology developer and manager, and active haiku poet. Since 2016 he has been publishing in the leading print journals, including Modern Haiku, Acorn, Blithe Spirit, Kingfisher, First Frost, and Presence, and on the internet in A Hundred Gourds, Shamrock, The Heron’s Nest, Tinywords, Autumn Moon, and Tsuri-dōrō. He has won honors in dozens of international competitions, including those of the Kaji Aso Studio (9 times), the Haiku Poets of Northern California (10 awards), the Irish Haiku Society (4 times), Modern Haiku (4 times), Haiku Northwest, Akita International, Oku-no-hosomichi Sōka Matsubara, the New Zealand Poetry Society, and Presence. His work has been anthologized in Sitting on the Sun (Haiku North America 2019 anthology) and A New Resonance 13 (2023). His first published collection, Magic Carpet, appeared in 2025. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Inkstone Poetry Forum and resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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