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Kelly Sauvage Moyer (born Kelly Sue Johnson, April 7, 1973, Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A.; formerly published as Kelly Sauvage Angel.) Drawn to traditional haiku in the 1990s, she has been publishing in the major short-form print and especially in innovative online journals since 2017. Her work has been chosen for Gurga and Metz’s Haiku anthologies for 2020–2023 as well as other compendia. She coedited Blossom Moon, the anthology of the Waukesha Haiku Group (2020), and Paper Mountains, the 2020 Seabeck Haiku Getaway anthology. She has served on occasion as an editor of Failed Haiku and FemkuMag. Her own experimental haiku collection, Hushpuppy, appeared in 2023. She has recently founded Spiro Keats, a journal for those living with Lyme disease, and written Mother Pomegranate and Other Fairytales for Adults, currently presented on the stage. Kelly resides with her husband, haiku poet and conference organizer Robert P. Moyer, in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.