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Steve Hodge (born Steven Hodge, May 1, 1953, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.), human resources director (retired), editor, and haiku, senryu, tanrenga, haibun, and haiga poet. He has published in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Tinywords, and Failed Haiku among other journals and in the anthologies of the Haiku Society of America and the Evergreen Haiku Study Group as well as in The Red Moon Anthology 2015. A haiku of Hodge’s won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award in Frogpond (2016), another verse won the Sonic Boom Senryu Contest 2016, and others were honored in the Golden Haiku Contest in 2017 and 2018. The Sparrow’s Dream, Hodge’s book of haiga, appeared in 2014, and he coedited The Red River Book of Haibun, Volume 1 (2019). From 2016 to 2018 he served as editor of Prune Juice: A Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun and Haiga. and together with Mike Rehling founded the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition and the H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest. He resides in White Lake, Michigan.
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