André Duhaime (born March 19,1948, Montréal, Québec, Canada), retired professor of French in the Outaouais region of Québec, author, and haiku poet. Duhaime is widely considered the father of francophone haiku in Canada. He discovered haiku in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums (1958; Les Clochards célestes, 1974) and has published 43 books, including 5 books of haiku and 4 illustrated books of haiku for children, as well as collections of tanka, renga/renku, and tanka. He edited Haïku: anthologie canadienne / Canadian Anthology (1985, with Dorothy Howard), the first French-English anthology; Haïku sans frontières: une anthologie mondiale (1998), a major international anthology based on his multilingual website Anthologie Haïku; and Haïku et francophonie canadienne (2000), a compendium of French Canadian haiku. From 1985 to 1988 he served as copresident of Haiku Canada. He has lived in the Outaouais region of Québec since 1971.

Bertrand Nayet (born August 9, 1962, Auxerre, France), Canadian actor, director, translator, painter, editor, and poet. He worked as a teacher of French literature, the visual arts, and philosophy in the Manitoba francophone school system for nearly 30 years. Nayet had ten haiku published in André Duhaime’s Haïku sans frontières: une anthologie mondiale (1998) and has published three collections of haiku (2003, 2009, and 2014). He also writes short stories, tales, poetry, drama, and critiques. His book of poetry, L’enfant rouge, won the Rue-Deschambault Book Award in 2019. Nayet has been leader of the Kukaï Rouge since 2010 and of the Coulée d’encre writing circle since 2017. In 2016 he assumed responsibility for the Collection Haïku of Éditions David, and the following year he cofounded the Association des auteur·e·s du Manitoba français. He has lived in Saint Norbert, Manitoba, since 1975.

Chen-ou Liu (Standard Chinese 劉鎮歐, born October 22, 1963, Taipei, Taiwan), Taiwanese Canadian poet and editor. Author of five books and editor and translator of NeverEnding Story, an English-Chinese blog. His haikai and tanka have been honored with 139 awards. Lives in Ajax, Ontario.

Claude Rodrigue (born 1952, St-Honoré dans la Beauce, Québec, Canada), Canadian author, playwright, and poet writing in French and English. He is a member of the France-based Association Francophone de Haïku (since 2002), Haiku Canada, and the haiku group in his hometown, Groupe Haïku de Baie-Comeau (since 2007), as well as drama organizations. He gives courses in composing comic strips, and has created bilingual haïku entrecroisés / crossword haiku for learning haiku terms. He is active in the literary life of Québec’s Côte-Nord region, and has published in the regional revue Littoral, Gong, the AFH journal, and Haiku Canada members’ anthologies. Since January 2015, Rodrigue has edited the French haiku section in the Haiku Canada Review. He has resided in Baie-Comeau, Québec, since 1977.

Debbie Strange (born Debra Mae MacKenzie, March 12, 1955, Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada), Canadian poet, artist, photographer, and musician. Member of several haiku and tanka organizations, she enjoys contributing to the Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival and Haiga Galleries. Her most recent collection, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations, won the 2022 Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award, the Sable Books 2019 International Women’s Haiku Contest, and an Honorable Mention in the 2021 HSA Merit Book Awards. Resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.