Chris Bays (born Christopher Rush Bays, September 29, 1961, Otterbach, Germany), college professor and poet. Won top prizes for haibun in HSA competitions, the Genjuan International Haibun Contest; the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards; the Key West Robert Frost Poetry Contest, the British Haiku Society Awards, the Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition, and the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Invitational. His book, Edge of Suburbia: Haibun, Haiku and Monoku, appeared in 2021. Teaches at Clark State College and resides in Beavercreek, Ohio.

Christine Horner (born Christine Beaven Tedesco, December 28,1937, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.), retired pediatric post-anesthesia nurse. Publishing haiku since 1979, and later a student of Jerry Ball. Longtime active member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, publishes regularly in Geppo and anthologies, was coordinator of a Tokutomi contest, and coordinated other YTHS activities. Included in HPNC members’ anthologies and journals, Gurga and Metz’s Haiku 2016, and the San Francisco Haiku Anthology: The Next Thirty Years. Had a haiku shortlisted in the THF Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. Lives in Walnut Creek, California.

Christine Lamb Stern (born Christine Eva Lamb, September 29, 1946, Sacramento, California, U.S.A.), retired advertising copywriter, cofounder of the Higher Education Literacy Partnership (HELP) of Minnesota. Board member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and associate editor of the society’s work-study journal Geppo, manager and host for monthly society meetings on Zoom. Edited and co-produced Luminaries, a special anthology celebrating the 13 dōjin of Yuki Teikei. Resides in Bayfield, Wisconsin, and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Christopher Patchel (born June 5, 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A), American freelance graphic designer, artist, and haikai poet. His haiku, haibun, and haiga have been published in the leading print and online journals and anthologies. His collection, Turn Turn, was a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award finalist. Created the cover art for Frogpond from 2012 to 2018 and was journal editor 2016–2018. Lives in the Chicago suburbs.

Chuck Brickley (born Charles McAlpin Brickley, October 11, 1947, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.), grocer, songwriter/producer, and haiku poet. He was Associate Editor of Modern Haiku under the editorship of Robert Spiess from 1980 to 1985 and is currently serving as 2nd Vice President of the Haiku Society of America. In addition to haiku journals, his work has appeared in two major Canadian haiku anthologies (1979 and 1985), The Haiku Anthology (2nd ed., 1986), and Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years (2013), among others. His first book of haiku, earthshine, won laurels in the THF Touchstone Awards and the HSA Merit Book Awards in 2017 and the Marianne Bluger Book Award in 2020. Brickley resided in rural British Columbia for 35 years and now lives in Daly City, California.