Denise Fontaine-Pincince (born Denise Charlene Fontaine, October 4, 1953, Palmer, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), retired private school founder/administrator, now artist and haikai and verse poet. Member of the Sugar Maple Haiku Group and the Cold Spring Poetry Critique Group. Published in major periodicals and A New Resonance 13 and Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies. Published a haiga collection, Haiku Thank You, in 2011 and edited Tea All the Time it Takes: A Haiku Anthology in 2025. Her YouTube video: Haiku Gifts: Art with Poetry by Denise Fontaine-Pincince was presented at Haiku North America 2021. Resides in Belchertown, Massachusetts.