Patti Niehoff (born Patricia Mary Ann Williams, March 5, 1956, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.), writing and teaching haikai for more than 40 years; published in the major English-language print and online periodicals; and anthologized in Haiku Moment (1993),The Ohio Haiku Anthology (2020), and HSA members’ anthologies. Founder and leader of the Peregrine Haiku Society in Cincinnati. Serves as chair of the organizing committee for the 2023 HNA conference in Cincinnati, where she resides.