Photo by Maggie Schilling
Rich Schilling (born Richard Jay Schilling, November 30, 1975, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.), proofreader by profession; also a poet and musician. He is a two-time (2020 and 2023) First-Place winner of the Golden Haiku contest in Washington, D.C., has had poems published in Lee Gurga and Scott Metz’s annual haiku anthologies (2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025), whiptail’s Sea Change: An Anthology of Single-Line Poems (2024), and the Red Moon anthologies for 2019, 2022, and 2024 as well as being featured in A New Resonance 14 (2025). Schilling received a Sakura Award in the 2020 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Contest, won an Honorable Mention in the 2022 H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest, had work shortlisted (2022) and longlisted (2023) for the THF Touchstone Individual Poems Awards, was First Runner-up in the 2024 Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Awards, and took Third Place and an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards. He has had a haiku featured in the Midwest Haiku Traveling Rock Garden. Schilling lives in Webster Groves, Missouri.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.