Robert Epstein (born Robert Allen Epstein, April 8, 1954, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.), psychologist, nature-oriented haiku/senryu poet, and anthologist. Author of 23 books of haiku and editor of 12 anthologies on topics including the sacred; death awareness; grief, loss, and change; recovery; renewal; mothers and fathers; aging; and animal rights. His publications have won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award (2011) and two have been shortlisted; his work has won two Touchstone Individual Poems Awards and three were shortlisted. Also received awards from The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, and the Montserrat Review. Resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since 1982.