Michael Dudley (born June 2, 1953, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), retired Canadian high school teacher and active poet, essayist, and haiku poet. His poetry collections include Pilgrimage: Ha!ku Selected & New (2017). Specially interested in co-creation and collaborative work; for example, several chapbooks feature collaborative sequences with other Canadian poets, and his most recent publication (2021) is NEXUS haiku, a bilingual collection with Croatian poets Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. From March 2022 he will reside in Chatham-Kent, Ontario.