Clare McCotter (born May 25, 1963, Kilrea, County Derry), lecturer, English teacher, mental health nurse, and full-time carer. One of three new poets featured in Measuring: Dedalus New Writers 1 and is included in Haiku in English. Black Horse Running, her first collection of haiku, tanka, and haibun, appeared in 2012. Won First Prize (twice) and Highly Commended (four times) in Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competitions and has won the British Haiku Society Award as well as several Honourable Mentions for her tanka, haiku, and haibun. Resides in Kilrea, Northern Ireland.

Colin Blundell (born October 4, 1937, Kingston-upon-Thames, England; died December 2023, Sutton Bridge, Linconshire, England), retired teacher and teacher trainer, occasionally running courses on natural language processing (NLP) and the Enneagram. Past president of the British Haiku Society and long-time editor of Blithe Spirit. Established the imprint Hub Editions and published the work of many BHS members. Blundell was coauthor of the Haikupedia article “Haiku in the United Kingdom: England.” Last resided in Sutton Bridge, England.

Danny Blackwell (born February 6, 1977, Margate, UK). British musician, poet, editor, translator, guide, teacher. He edited the re:Virals feature for the Haiku Foundation from 2017 to 2019. Editor of Haiku from Iberia and Beyond: an anthology of haiku written in the languages of the Iberian Peninsula (2018). Author of the Haikupedia articles on haiku in Catalan, the Basque country, and Galicia. Resides in Valencia, Spain.

David Bingham (born December 13, 1946, Liverpool, U.K.), retired teacher/lecturer and haikai poet for more than 20 years. Editor of Blithe Spirit (2013–2014) and acting BHS president (2021–2022). Won the BHS Ken and Noragh Jones Haibun Award (2017). Edited Ripening Cherries (2019), an anthology of haiku, tanka, and haibun, as well as Stories under Every Rock (2020), an anthology of haibun. A leader of the Shropshire-based Green Wood Haiku group, he leads composition workshops and readings. Resides in Ironbridge, Shropshire, U.K.

David Cobb (born March 12, 1926, Harrow, England; died November 6, 2020, Braintree, Essex, England), British educator and pathbreaking haiku and haibun poet. He had a distinguished career in teaching languages (EFL, English, German) and literature, initially in the U.K., then in Hamburg, Germany, and Bangkok, Thailand. Beginning in 1968 he was an adviser/author for over 100 schoolbooks used worldwide. He launched the British Haiku Society in 1990 and served as its president from 1997 to 2002. His book The Consensus was used worldwide as a guide to haiku writing; this became English Haiku: a Composite View and is still issued to new members via the BHS Members’ Handbook. Cobb also pioneered English-language haibun. He was coauthor of the Haikupedia article ”Haiku in the United Kingdom: England” and last resided in Shalford, Essex, England.