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Jenny Fraser (born Jennifer Margaret Fraser, April 6, 1946, Te Awamutu, New Zealand), primary and ESL teacher; fiber artist and founder of Riverweaver, a producer of designer hand weavings; Celtic musician; and poet. She published her first haikai in 2010 and has since has been anthologized in Bruce Ross’s A Vast Sky (2015), Wind Flowers (the 2019 Red Moon Anthology), and A New Resonance 12 (2021) as well as Lee Gurga and Scott Metz’s Haiku 2020 and Haiku 21.2 (2025). She has been honored in the Autumn Moon Haiku Contest, 2018; the Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards, 2019; the Martin Lucas Haiku Awards, 2021; the Morioka International Haiku Contest, 2023; the Jane Reichhold Competition, 2024, and the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Haiku Competition, 2023 and 2024. Fraser also serves as tanka editor for Cattails and has artwork in that journal in April 2025. She has been chosen as Haiku Juniors judge for the 2025 NZPS contest and lives in Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.