Elaine Whitman (born Elaine Weiss, December 25, 1947, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A.), Professor Emerita, University of Utah School of Medicine, where she taught faculty and students how to support victims of domestic abuse. Active member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and coedited with Neal Whitman the 2021 and 2022 YTHS members’ anthologies. Won recognition in the 2011, 2015, and 2016 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Haiku Contest and has been an invited guest poet at the annual YTHS Spring Reading. Resides in Pacific Grove, California.