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Robin Smith (haigō GRIX, Robin Anna Smith, and rs), American visual artist, craftsperson, editor, publisher, author, and poet. They were founding Editor-in-Chief of the monthly print/web journal Human/Kind: A Journal of Topical and Contemporary Japanese Short-forms and Art (2019–2020), and Human/Kind Press; Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem (2021) and Whiptail Press; a founder of the Trailblazer Contest (2021) and of the small, independent international Cloudlanders Haiku Study Group (2020); and, for several years starting in 2019, was Assistant Editor of both Sonic Boom and Yavanika Press. Smith has served in various capacities at The Haiku Foundation: Assistant Coordinator for Touchstone Awards (2021), Coordinator of the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems (2022–2025), President (2025), and Board Member (since 2025).
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