Anna Maris (born April 12, 1970, Malmö, Sweden), poet and journalist currently working with media development in Bangladesh. Chair of the literary section of the Swedish Writers' Union, board member of the Swedish Haiku Society, and on the panel of judges of The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. Author of lifedeathetc, her first collection in English, as well as two haiku collections in Swedish. Resides in Hässleholm, Sweden.

Birk Andersson (born February 21, 1987, Trelleborg, Sweden), holds degrees in criminology and climate strategy and is employed as a project administrator for the city of Malmö; also a haiku poet. He created a style he calls anarko haiku (“haiku for the people”) and has published three collections: Anarko Haiku (2017), Mörk Grön Haiku (2018; Dark Green Haiku), and Haiku åt folket (2019; Haiku for the People). Andersson resides in Malmö, Sweden.

Caroline Skanne (born April 15, 1978, Stockholm, Sweden), poet, photographer/artist, editor, and publisher. Skanne is the founder and editor of hedgerow: a journal of small poems and founder and publisher of wildflower poetry press. She has edited Blithe Spirit, the journal of the British Haiku Society, since 2019. Resides in Upnor, by the river Medway, Kent, U.K.

Daniel Onaca (born August 12, 1954, Resita, Romania, moved to Sweden in 1986), librarian, writer, publisher, translator, and poet. His literary essays and reviews have been published in a number of Romanian and Swedish literary magazines. Onaca has published one senryu, one gogyohka (5-line poem similar to tanka) collection, and eight collections of haiku with 100 haiku in each one. The latest volume, Parfumuri vechi, arome noi: poeme haiku / Gamla dofter, nya aromer: haikudikter (Old Perfumes, New Flavors: Haiku Poems) is bilingual (Romanian-Swedish) and was published in 2020. Onaca resides in Malmö, Sweden.

Eva Ermenz (born October 4, 1948, Surahammar, Sweden), actor, writer, and poet. She is a member of the Swedish Writers' Union Stockholm. She has published 13 books, including two haibun collections, two poetry books in Swedish, and one in Italian. Resides in Stockholm.