Bjarne Kim Pedersen (born November 5, 1955, Gauerslund, Denmark), poet, writer, storyteller, teacher, and publisher. He has published six books of haiku-like poems, including Verden lige nu: sms haiku digte (The World Right Now: SMS Haiku Poems) in 2006 and My Maidan Affair (2016) in Danish, English, and Ukrainian. Pedersen writes short political poems that he shares on Twitter, one of which has been retweeted more than 900,000 times. He served as secretary of the Haiku Group of the Danish Authors’ Society. Resides in Otterup, Denmark.