Photo from Memorie di Una Geisha, Multiblog Internazionale di Haiku
Stefano d’Andrea (born 1955, Sanremo, Imperia, Italy), Italian painter and professional art restorer. He has been involved in haikai since the 1970s and has published his haiku, senryu, and haibun especially in online forums including Asahi Haikuist Network, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, Failed Haiku, Incense Dreams, The Mamba, Otata, World Haiku Review, the American Haijin Facebook page, and Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog. D’Andrea won a Zatsuei (Haiku of Merit) in the R. H. Blyth Award of the World Haiku Club (2021), and he was listed among the European Top 100 haiku authors from 2018 through 2020. He founded Le Lumachine, the online senryu journal, in 1999 and resides in Imperia, Liguria, Italy.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.