Katherine Munro (“Kathy,” born Katherine Jane Munro, June 15, 1960, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; haigō kjmunro), full-time parent, retired, and poet. In 2014, she founded solstice haiku, a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, that she continues to facilitate, and since January 2018 she has curated a weekly feature for Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation’s blog. Her debut poetry collection is contractions (2019). Munro resides in Whitehorse.