Self-portrait
Joy Hallinan (born Joy Anne Kurts, September 20, 1960, Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, U.S.A.), American not-for-profit executive, artist and art historian, and composer of haiku, senryu, haibun, haiga, waka, tanka, tanka prose, and freeform poetry. Her work has appeared in print publications including Frogpond, Acorn, Kingfisher, and Time Haiku, and online in The Heron’s Nest, #FemKuMag, Poetry Pea, Pan Haiku Review, Wales Haiku Journal, Cornflower, and Only Human: English Language Senryu. She was the winner of the 2026 Ecopoetry Award in the 2026 Filoli Gardens Haiku Contest, Woodside, California, a finalist in the 2026 Golden Triangle Business District Haiku Contest, Washington, D.C., and a 2026 Touchstone Individual Haibun Award nominee for her “About a Girl.” With Tom Painting she cofounded Samara: The Atlanta Haiku Group. Joy Hallinan resides in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia.
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