Lynette Arden (born 1943, Sydney, Australia), retired government worker and active writer and artist. Her poetry has been published in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, U.K., and U.S.A. Has compiled three collections of poetry, including haiku, haibun, and tanka. Arden convened the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group from 2009 to 2019 and remains a member. She is a past vice president of the Australian Haiku Society and currently its society’s web manager. She publishes the online haiku journal Echidna Tracks. She resides in Adelaide, South Australia.