Denver Stull (born Denver Eugene Stull, December 21, 1919, Pennsboro, West Virginia, U.S.A; died January 6, 2011, Forest Park, Georgia), sergeant-major in the U.S. Army Reserves, payroll clerk at the Veterans Administration, Master of Laws, and editor, publisher, writer, and poet. He edited Parnassus Literary Journal from 1983 to 2005.

Diane Alleva Cáceres (born Diane Florence Alleva, April 23, 1965, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), lecturer at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Writes haiku, haibun, and tanka; her book of haiku, North Star Quivering, was published in 2021. Cofounder of the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s annual Atlanta Haiku Festival and member of the Haiku Society of America. Resides in Smyrna, Georgia.

Don Baird (born Donald E. Baird, May 15, 1947, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.), American grandmaster and teacher of kung fu, haiku poet, composer and studio musician, graphic artist, public speaker, author, and editor. Won awards for haiku and haiga in major international contests. Cofounder and editor of The Living Haiku Anthology and Under the Bashō. Has written five books of or about haiku. Resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Don Wentworth (born Donald T. Wentworth, Jr., July 14, 1951, Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.A.). Poet, publisher, editor, and librarian. His work, focused on the revelatory nature of brief, haiku-like moments in everyday life, has been shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (Past All Traps, 2011) and included in the annual best-of-the year anthology, Haiku 2014. Wentworth was the editor of Lilliput Review (1989–2018). He is a 30–year resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Donna Bauerly (born August 30, 1934, Potosi, Wisconsin), taught for 52 years at various levels, the last 36 as a professor of literature and writing at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, and following retirement, as a volunteer 5th grade teacher. Bauerly's haiku have been published in the Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies and in journals including Frogpond and Wind Chimes; she was especially active in the Shiki Internet Kukai. She produced a biography of the pioneering American haijin, Raymond Roseliep, Man of Art Who Loves the Rose (2015), believed to be the first book-length treatment of an English-language haiku poet. Bauerly lives in Dubuque, Iowa.