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Pris Campbell (born Priscilla Ann Campbell, July 18, 1942, Chester, South Carolina, U.S.A.), American clinical psychologist, now retired, as well as writer, poet, and author and collaborator of poetry collections. Her free verse is widely published and anthologized, and she has compiled twelve books and chapbooks of free verse, tanka, and haikai. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Campbell’s haiku, senryu, photo haiga, tanka, and haibun have appeared since 2005 in print and online journals including Simply Haiku, Frogpond, Acorn, Presence, Blithe Spirit, Failed Haiku, Ribbons, and contemporary haibun online. She was an active participant in the Shiki Internet Kukai from 2006, and in 2018 received a Sakura award in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational and was recognized in the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest and the H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest. In 2021 she took first place in both the Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest and the Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest. Campbell lives in Lake Worth, Florida.
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