Geoffrey Sill (born October 5, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.) is an emeritus professor and past chair of the Department of English at Rutgers University–Camden, where he taught for 40 years. He was president of the Walt Whitman Association in Camden (1980–1985) and is a board member of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. He has written extensively on Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, and the English novel. Sill assisted in the digitization of the typescripts of Nick Virgilio’s unpublished poems on Rutgers University Library’s website and is the author of the Haikupedia article “Nick Virgilio.” He resides in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Nick Virgilio (born Nicholas Anthony Virgilio, June 28, 1928, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.; died January 3, 1989, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.), radio broadcaster and haiku poet. He lived most of his life in his family’s row house in Camden. From 1963 until his death, he published more than 795 poems, almost all haiku. Two editions of his Selected Haiku appeared in 1985 and 1988. Virgilio is considered a founder of haiku written in the American idiom.