Lorin Ford (born May 17, 1947, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia). Recipient of 1st Place, the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards (2009) for A Wattle Seedpod. Ford served on The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Book Awards Panel, as editor for Notes from the Gean (2009–2011), and as publisher and editor of A Hundred Gourds (2011–2016).