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Isabella Mori (born Isabella von Hündeberg, June 24, 1955, Munich, Germany), writer and occasional translator from German and Spanish into English, and looks back on a 30+ year career in counseling. They write haiku, senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, renku, and zuihitsu, as well as longer poems and various forms of prose. Mori is the author of four books, two of them of and about haiku, A Bagful of Haiku (2017), and Not So Pretty Haiku (2022). Their haikai have also appeared in various other publications, including the anthologies of Haiku Canada and the Seabeck Haiku Getaway. They are an active member of the Vancouver Haiku Group and the founder of Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Canada’s most unusual poetry competition. They live on Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh lands, aka Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.