David Watts (born Harvey David Watts, March 22, 1940, Chicago Illinois, U.S.A.), American writer, poet, aphorist, symphonic and jazz musician, retired radio and television personality, and physician. Composing haikai since 2020; published two books and coauthored a book of translations of early Hispanic haiku poets to come out in 2025. Has work included in Skipping Stones: The Red Moon Anthology, The San Francisco Haiku Anthology: The Next Thirty Years, and A New Resonance 14. Received honors in the Croatian Little Iris Haiku Contest and the Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition. Lives in Mill Valley, California.

Davina Kosh (born Davina Elizabeth Prendergrast, April 6, 1904, Colma, California, U.S.A.; died January 8, 1994, San Rafael, California), bonsai master and poet. Published more than a hundred haiku in leading American and Japanese journals, most notably on bonsai and other Japanese-themed topics. Brushstroke, her haikai collection, was publshed in 1990. She resided San Rafael, California.

Deb Koen (born Debra Ann Koen, February 18, 1955, Oneida, New York, U.S.A.), career counselor and leadership development specialist; former columnist for national and local periodicals. Composes haiku, haibun, and haiga on nature, human relationships, and sociopolitical issues; published in major journals and included in the members’ anthologies of the Haiku Society of America, Haiku Canada, and the Rochester Area Haiku Group. Recognized in the HSA Best Unpublished Haibun Award and a Setouchi Matsuyama Photo Haiku Contest. Guest Editor of THF Haiku of the Day. Her latest collection is On the Planet (2018). Resides in Rochester and Keuka Lake, N.Y.

Deborah P Kolodji (born Deborah Pauline Anderson, August 11, 1959, Long Beach, California; died July 20, 2024), technical consultant, poet, and workshop leader. Author of a book of haiku, four chapbooks of poetry, and an e-chapbook of scifaiku. California Region Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America. Served on the Board of Directors for Haiku North America; co-organized the 2013 HNA Conference; moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. Past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, editor of Dwarf Star, co-created the SFPA online journal, and received the inaugural SFPA President’s Lifetime Service Award. Last resided in Temple City, California.

Denise Fontaine-Pincince (born Denise Charlene Fontaine, October 4, 1953, Palmer, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), retired private school founder/administrator, now artist and haikai and verse poet. Member of the Sugar Maple Haiku Group and the Cold Spring Poetry Critique Group. Published in major periodicals and A New Resonance 13 and Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies. Published a haiga collection, Haiku Thank You, in 2011 and edited Tea All the Time it Takes: A Haiku Anthology in 2025. Her YouTube video: Haiku Gifts: Art with Poetry by Denise Fontaine-Pincince was presented at Haiku North America 2021. Resides in Belchertown, Massachusetts.