Michele Root-Bernstein (born Michele Marie Root, February 13, 1953, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.). Worked 25 years as an independent scholar in creativity studies. Her haiku, haibun and rengay are widely published and anthologized and have won top prizes in contests. Coeditor of Frogpond, book review editor for Modern Haiku, founder of the Evergreen Haiku Study Group. The Haiku Life, What We Learned as Editors of Frogpond (2017) and Wind Rose (2021) won Honorable Mentions in the HSA Merit Book Awards; and Plainsong, won the Snapshot Press Book Award in 2022. Lives in East Lansing, Michigan.