Marta Chocilowska (Polish spelling: Chociłowska; born January 3, 1950, Warsaw, Poland), retired economist, writer, and haiku poet. Her poems have been published in haiga and haiku journals worldwide, including Cattails, Frogpond, tinywords, and Contemporary Haibun Online. She has coauthored several haiku and senryu anthologies, and her book Pory roku w polskim haiku (The Seasons in Polish Haiku) came out in 2015. She has been a prizewinner or judge in Polish, Romanian, English, and Japanese haiku contests and won the Sponsor’s Award in the Ito en Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest 2016. Chocilowska has been president of the Polish Haiku Association since 2018 and managing editor of the PHA’s annual almanac Migratory Birds. She also serves as manager of The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry. She resides in Warsaw, Poland.

Rafał Zabratyński (born September 29, 1974, Rzeszów, Poland; haigō RaV, English teacher and form tutor, haiku poet, and editor. Writing haiku and other short Japanese-style poetry since 2000; published in major international print and online journals. Won top prizes in the Kusamakura, HIA, and Mainichi haiku competitions as well as the the Ewa Tomaszewska Poetry Award for the best Polish haiku in 2020. Administrator of the first Polish online educational haiku forum; cofounder and organizer of the first five editions of the Polish International Haiku Competition. Resides in Rzeszów, Poland.

Robert Kania (born Robert Józef Kania, May 5, 1964, Opole Lubelskie, Poland), poet and editor. Published four volumes of poetry, including one of haiku. Cofounder and past president of the Polish Haiku Association; co-organizer of the European Quarterly Kukai the European Kukai, and the 2nd International Haiku Conference in Kraków; member of the committee for the Ewa Tomaszewska Poetry Awards; editor-in-chief of Papierowy Żuraw haiku magazine; and editor of the PHA’s annual, Migratory Birds. Kania’s haiku in English have appeared in major international print and online publications and won top prizes in the HIA, Kusamakura, and Mainichi haiku contests Lives in Warsaw.

Sława Sibiga (born born Bronisława Sibiga, 1950, Rozkosz, eastern Poland; died November 26, 2025), poet and sumi-e artist. Published in print and online periodicals in Polish and English. Produced nine volumes of poetry, four of them haiku, and coedited fifteen haiku anthologies. Participated in two Kraków International Haiku Conferences (2015, 2024). Shortlisted for the Ewa Tomaszewska Awards in 2018 and 2022. Her sumi-e are exhibited widely. Resided in Tychy, southern Poland.

Urszula Winiarska (born April 6, 1964, Zawiercie, Poland), certified teacher and mediator, coordinator of educational and artistic projects, and haikai poet. Author of ebooks on school mediation and a book about the Japanese concept of ikigai (finding what gives one’s life purpose). Member of the Polish Haiku Association, lectures on classical haiku; and has coauthored several poetry anthologies. Published in Papierowy Żuraw, Kuzu, and the Ptaki wędrowne almanacs. Posts her photo haiga on the IkigaiDay website and in DailyHaiga, and has exhibited at an art gallery in Toruń, where she resides.