Diane Alleva Cáceres (born Diane Florence Alleva, April 23, 1965, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), lecturer at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Writes haiku, haibun, and tanka; her book of haiku, North Star Quivering, was published in 2021. Cofounder of the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s annual Atlanta Haiku Festival and member of the Haiku Society of America. Resides in Smyrna, Georgia.

Don Baird (born Donald E. Baird, May 15, 1947, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.), American grandmaster and teacher of kung fu, haiku poet, composer and studio musician, graphic artist, public speaker, author, and editor. Won awards for haiku and haiga in major international contests. Cofounder and editor of The Living Haiku Anthology and Under the Bashō. Has written five books of or about haiku. Resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Don Wentworth (born Donald T. Wentworth, Jr., July 14, 1951, Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.A.). Poet, publisher, editor, and librarian. His work, focused on the revelatory nature of brief, haiku-like moments in everyday life, has been shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (Past All Traps, 2011) and included in the annual best-of-the year anthology, Haiku 2014. Wentworth was the editor of Lilliput Review (1989–2018). He is a 30–year resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Donna Bauerly (born August 30, 1934, Potosi, Wisconsin), taught for 52 years at various levels, the last 36 as a professor of literature and writing at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, and following retirement, as a volunteer 5th grade teacher. Bauerly's haiku have been published in the Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies and in journals including Frogpond and Wind Chimes; she was especially active in the Shiki Internet Kukai. She produced a biography of the pioneering American haijin, Raymond Roseliep, Man of Art Who Loves the Rose (2015), believed to be the first book-length treatment of an English-language haiku poet. Bauerly lives in Dubuque, Iowa.

Dru Philippou (born Androulla Philippou, January 22, 1956, Strovolos, British Cyprus), a Cypriot–British-American writer, poet, and educator. Writing haikai, tanka prose, and free verse since 2005. Had work in eleven Red Moon anthologies, won Honorable Mention in the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award, First Prize in Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards, and Honorable Mentions in three Genjuan International Haibun Contests. Her “Afterlife” and “Pilgrimage” each won first place in HSA’s Haibun Awards (2021 and 2023). Published a tanka prose memoir, A Place to Land, in 2022. Has lived in Taos, New Mexico, since 1995.