Photo by Linda Wollschlaeger-Fischer
P. H. Fischer (born Peter Heinrich Fischer, May 15, 1970, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), employed as the manager of a government-funded employment program for the YWCA. His haikai, notably one-line and visual haiku, have been published in print and online journals since 2021–2022 and in compendia that include Haiku Canada members’ anthologies; Red Moon anthologies and A New Resonance 14; Lee Gurga and Scott Metz’s Haiku 2023 as well as Contemporary Haibun Online. His honors include Top Winner in the Vancouver section, 2022 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and a Sakura Award in 2023, plus commendations in the 2021 H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest and the 2023 Francine Porad Awards. In addition, a poem of his has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Fischer is currently coeditor of Prune Juice Journal, earlier having coedited Winds Aloft, the 2023 Seabeck Haiku Getaway anthology, and serving as a judge for the 2024 Harold G. Henderson contest. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.