Kay Titus Mormino (born Katherine Darling Titus, April 19, 1905, San Francisco, California; died January 11, 1983, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.), a poet and promoter of haiku, she served as haiku editor for The Nutmegger, the magazine of the Nutmegger Poetry Club of Danbury, Conn., and edited its Haiku Anthology: 1968, one of the earliest compendia of original American haiku. She founded Modern Haiku in 1969 and edited it until 1977. Mormino's last residence was Laguna Niguel, Calif.; she died in Los Angeles in 1983.