María Victoria Porras (full name María Victoria Porras Martínez; married name Pérez, born August 25, 1969, Murcia, Spain; haigō: Mavi), poet and haiku theorist, a long-time contributor to El Rincón del Haiku, the pioneering digital Spanish-language haiku magazine. She has lectured at the University of Castilla la Mancha on “Haiku and the Extinction of the Conventional Self” and at the Haijin Association of Albacete (AGHA) on “The Use of Verb Tenses in Haiku.” Coauthor with Juan Francisco Pérez of the book A la Intemperie (2006; In the Open). Resides in Llano de Brujas (Murcia), Spain.