Simon Hanson (born February 11, 1955, Henley Beach, South Australia), ecological advocate and haikai practitioner. Won top prizes in international competitions and has seen his haikai featured in the Australian and New Zealand anthologies, the Red Moon anthologies, A New Resonance 12, Gurga and Metz’s annual anthologies, Ross’s A Vast Sky, Sawicki’s Behind the Tree Line, and Pearce’s Last Train Home. Collaborated with Ron C. Moss in Ancient Bloodlines, an ebook of rengay and produced an ebook of haiku, Desert Stones. Former secretary to the Australian Haiku Society and currently coeditor of Echidna Tracks. Resides in Lilydale, Tasmania.