Michael Nickels-Wisdom (born Michael Roy Wisdom), March 22, 1957, Evanston, Illinois, USA), library technician (retired) and minimalist poet. Member of the Haiku Society of America and the Haiku Chapter of the Illinois State Poetry Society. Has work published in New Resonance 12 and four of Modern Haiku Press’s annual Haiku anthologies as well as periodicals Acorn, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, American Tanka, Roadrunner, Bones, Under the Bashō, Whiptail, Scifaikuest, Kingfisher, and Password. Won three Tanka Splendor awards and one each in the HIA, YTHS Tokutomi Memorial Haiku, and Kusamakura haiku contests, among others. Lives in Delavan, Wisconsin.