Jay Friedenberg (born Jay Daniels Friedenberg, October 28, 1966, New York City, U.S.A.), professor of psychology at Manhattan College, research scientist in the field of empirical aesthetics, visual artist, and poet. Author of One Rock Out of Place: A Haiku Collection (2013), Elemental (2016), Poems from the Front: A Haiku History of the Second World War (2018), and Sci-Ku: Explorations into the Poetry of Science (2020) and editor of The Unexpected Weight: The Haiku Society of America Mentorship Program Anthology 2021. President of the Haiku Society of America 2020–2022. Resides in Sleepy Hollow, New York.