Michelle Tennison (born Michelle Rene Hudson, April 22, 1963, Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.A.), American writer and award-winning haiku poet. She has been writing and publishing haiku in the major online and print journals since 2000. Her work has been widely anthologized in a number of collections of the best haiku in the English language, including Red Moon anthologies, Haiku 21, and many of Modern Haiku Press’s annual anthologies of 100 notable poems. Her first collection of poems, murmuration, was published in 2016. Tennison has resided in Blackwood, New Jersey, since 1992.