Photo by Rebecca Tico
Nathanael Tico (born Nathanael Orion Tico, September 11, 1975, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.), American talent agent. He began writing haiku in 1998 with the encouragement and tutelage of his father, haiku poet Tom Tico, and saw his work first published in 2003 in Frogpond. His recent works can be found in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Acorn, Bottle Rockets, Akitsu Quarterly, tsuri-dōrō, Mariposa, Kingfisher, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Hedgerow, Seashores, and other journals as well as in Red Moon Press and Bottle Rockets Press anthologies and The San Francisco Haiku Anthology: The Next Thirty Years (2024). A member of Haiku Poets of Northern California, Tico edited The View Arcade: Two Autumns Anthology 2022. He still lives in San Francisco.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come