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Rebecca Drouilhet (born Rebecca Sue Hill, September 19, 1955, Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.A.), retired registered nurse. Her short-form poetry has been widely anthologized and recognized in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational (2012, 2013, and 2019), the Golden Haiku Contest in Washington, D.C ( 2022, 2023, and 2025), and the Small Wonders Haiku Contest (2023) while her tanka have been honored in the Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest (2020 and 2023), and the Tanka Festival in Tokyo (2016). She read her work on a Drifting Sands podcast in February 2023; she was chosen as Poet of the Month of April by Triveni Haikai India; and a haibun of hers was voted best of issue in Presence in November 2024. Drouilhet has produced four books of haikai, tanka, and linked poetry, some featuring her inventions “flash tanka,” “myth tanka prose,” “DEV tanka,” and “story bookending” haibun and tanka prose. She was a moderator for Jane Reichhold’s AHA Forum in the early 2000s and later for the Inkstone Poetry Forum. She now resides in Huntsville, Alabama.
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