Randy Brooks (born Randy Mark Brooks, June 18, 1954, Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S.A.), educator, haiku poet, scholar, editor, and publisher. As professor and dean, he taught professional writing, editing, book publishing, and haiku in English at Millikin University, Decatur, Ill. With his wife Shirley, coedited and published High/Coo and Mayfly magazines; the two are currently publishers of Brooks Books, producing award-winning paperback and clothbound haiku titles. Web editor for both Modern Haiku and Frogpond. Resides in Taylorville, Illinois.