Marie Summers (born Anna Marie Jacob, January 10, 1975, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A.), co-founder and owner 2000–2013 of Shadow Poetry, an online writing resource for poets. Published widely in the leading English-language print and online haikai and poetry periodicals. Author of multiple books and chapbooks; editor of the print SP Quill Magazine and White Lotus. Her most prized haiku honor is the Mayor of Ashiya Award, International Haiku Festa of the Kyoshi Memorial Museum of Literature in Japan. Resides in Collinsville, Illinois.