Debbi Antebi
Debbi Antebi (born 1983, Istanbul, Turkey), Spanish college counselor, writer, poet, and haiku poet living in the U.K. She was editor of The Brief, the newsletter of the British Haiku Society, in 2019 and 2020 and served as a BHS committee member for three years. Her work has appeared in a wide range of international print and online journals and anthologies, including the Red Moon Press’s A New Resonance series, and her haiku have been shortlisted for the THF Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems (2016, 2017, and 2018). She received the Grand Prize in The Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Awards and was designated Poet of the Year in 2018, and won 1st Prize in the 5th Golden Haiku Contest (Washington, D.C., 2018) among many other honors. Her chapbook, Between Light & Shadow: Haiku & Senryu, appeared in 2017. Antebi resides in London, England.