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Theresa A. Cancro (born Theresa Alice Cancro, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), retired editorial assistant, writer, free-verse poet, and haiku, tanka, and haibun poet, with a strong background in classical ballet, ethnic dance, and music as well as prose and nonfiction. Her haiku, senryu, haibun, and tanka have been published in top online and print journals including Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Presence, Shamrock, Chrysanthemum, Haibun Today, Ribbons, Moonbathing, and red lights, and in compilations including several Robert Epstein anthologies, Gurga and Metz’s Haiku 21.2, and the annual Red Moon Press anthologies (2018, 2019). She was the featured poet in the May 2016 issue of cattails. Some of her poems have been translated into German and Bulgarian. From mid-2019 through 2021, Theresa was editor of The Haiku Foundation’s weekly re:Virals commentary feature. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America, the Tanka Society of America, and host of the online Fireflies tanka group. She is also a moderator for Inkstone, a closed workshopping and discussion forum for various short-form poems. She currently serves as a Board member of THF and Second VP of TSA. Cancro is the Managing Editor for Haikupedia. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.
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