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Lisa Anne Johnson (born January 1970, Colorado, U.S.A.), received her PhD in biology from the University of California, San Diego, and is a retired experimental research scientist from the University of Michigan Medical School. She discovered haiku in Clark Strand’s Seeds From a Birch Tree (1997) and in 2022 enrolled in Strand’s online haiku classes. She has had her work featured in Strand’s monthly haiku challenge in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (2022), and in the 25th anniversary edition of Seeds from a Birch Tree (2023). Others of Johnson’s haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Mainichi Haiku in English, Kingfisher, Akitsu Quarterly, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, and The Heron’s Nest and have won honors in the Tokutomi Haiku Contest (2022), the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest (2022), the Hortensia Anderson Haiku Awards (2024), and the Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards (2024). She edits the haiku, senryu, and micropoetry print journal Trash Panda that she launched in 2021. Johnson dedicates much of her personal time to volunteer work, removing invasive species and restoring habitat in natural areas near her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.