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Marjolein Rotsteeg (born [year n.a.], Rotterdam, Netherlands), music journalist, teacher, writer, and haiku poet. Her poetry, short stories, and essays in Dutch have been published in Lust en Gratie, Vuursteen, Ya, and the e-zine Roots. She published a nonfiction book, Cherchez la femme. Travestie als fenomeen, in 1996. Writings in French include haïkai in L’ours dansant, le journal du haïku, and work anthologized in Au pied de mon arbre and Paris flanerie/Paris strolling. Haikai, poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and essays in English have appeared in The Heron’s Nest, Haiku Canada Review, Under the Bashō, Wales Haiku Journal, The Japan Times, Mainichi Haiku in English, The Pan Haiku Review, and Folk Ku Journal and included in Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo magazines and anthologies. In 2023 Rotsteeg won Second Place in the Marlene Mountain contest as well as honourable mentions in the BHS David Cobb awards, the HIA Haiku Contest, and the Polish International Haiku Competition. A haiku of hers was a winner in the 2025 THF Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. Marjolein Rotsteeg resides in Hoenderloo, the Netherlands.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.