Bio
Kathe L. Palka's short tanka collection, As the Years Pass, won an
eChapbook Award from Snapshot Press in 2011. In 2015 Red Moon Press
published A Path of Desire, a book of tan renga written by Palka and the
poet Peter Newton. Palka also writes in free verse and published a fulllength
collection titled Miracle of the Wine: New and Selected Poems with
Grayson Books in 2012. Her work in both Japanese forms and free verse
is widely published. Together with Peter Newton, she has co-edited the
online haiku and micropoetry journal
https:/tinywords.com/ since 2012.
Poet, activist, and ikebana artist, Susanna Rich was twice nominated for
an Emmy Award, and is a Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing. Her
haiku/senryu credits include Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest,
Prune Juice, tinywords, and bottle rockets. She is the author of five
longform poetry collections, most recently Beware the House and SHOUT!
Poetry for Suffrage. Visit at
www.wildnightsproductions.com