Photo by Doug Williams
Maxianne Berger (born January 26, 1949, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), retired clinical audiologist, poet, and translator. A lyrical poet since 1985, she turned to Japanese genres at the turn of the millennium, and her tanka, haiku, haibun, articles, and book reviews, in both English and French, have been published internationally, in print and online. She has coedited four anthologies, two of haiku and two of tanka. The author of five books; her most recent, You Are Here: Haiku & Senryu, was published in 2025. An explorer of Oulipo constraints for haiku, her 2016 Winnows, an erasure of Moby Dick, was honored with a tie for 3rd Prize in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards for 2017. Since the pandemic she has concentrated on photo haiga. She has lived in Montréal, Quebec, since the year of her birth.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.