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Sarah Paris (born Beatrice Sollberger, 1957, Bern, Switzerland), Swiss-American poet, writer, photographer, editor, and former journalist. She cofounded and for many years led the Four Seasons Haiku Kai at Mercy Center, Burlingame, California. She has served as Second Vice President of the Haiku Society of America since 2024 and as of 2026 serves on the panel judging the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. Her collection of haiku, for the birds, was published in 2024. In 2021 she was awarded First Prize in the San Francisco Senryu Competition and in 2025 won Third Prize in the Francine Porad Award contest. In addition to her haiku, senryu, and haibun, Paris is the author of two novellas, The Hermit, and The Traveler (as Chris Solano); Waywards, a collection of short stories; and a German-language novel, Ahnenbeschwörung, published in Switzerland. Formerly a long-time resident of San Francisco, she now lives in Santa Rosa, California.
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