Lonnard Dean Watkins is the web master for Muse-Pie Press.

Lonnard lives in Wellington, New Zealand and is a regular contributor to the fib review and Shot Glass Journal. He is also an accomplished haiku poet where he's won online contests and has been published in International Haiku journals.

Since he began to draw and paint at an early age, Lonnard has always been fascinated with shades of gray rather than colour. This has been more recently demonstrated in his series of paintings and poems influenced by the great Zen poets and artists of the ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty.

A sample of his work can be found on his web site "Art of Zen" www.oldman.co.nz