Photo by Stephen C. Delaney
Susan Delphine Delaney (born January 1948, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.; until 2001 signed her work Susan Delaney Mech), received an M.D. and M.S. and worked for 46 years as a psychiatrist in private practice. She published a book on physical injuries of quilters and a memoir on recovery from clergy abuse. She gained an appreciation of haiku and senryu as well as haiga, sumi-e, ensō, and ikebana from a Japanese graduate student. Her haikai have been published in leading print and online periodicals and are included in several Ueno Bashō Festival anthologies, the 2002 Red Moon Anthology, and the first five Small Canyons anthologies. She was a regular entrant in the Shiki Internet Kukai and the Hawaii Education Association haiku contests, and participated in Haiku North America 1999, quarterly meetings of the Haiku Society of America, and several Haiku Hot Springs (Arkansas) conferences. She was a founder of the North Texas Haiku Society and edited the “Teacher Feature” in The Haiku Society of America Newsletter. Delaney lives in Plano, Texas.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.