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Biographies<br />
Malintha Perera<br />
Colombo, Sri Lanka<br />
Malintha Perera is an established poet whose work is featured in numerous<br />
journals. She writes haiku, tanka, micropoetry as well as longer poems. Her<br />
first published haiku book, An Unswept Path (2015) is a collection of<br />
monastery haiku. She resides in Sri Lanka with her family.<br />
Debbie Strange<br />
Canadian<br />
Debbie Strange is a Canadian short form poet, artist, photographer, and<br />
musician, whose work has been published worldwide. She makes small<br />
poems and art every day to help manage chronic illness, and to connect her<br />
more closely to the world and to herself. Debbie has an affinity for birds and<br />
water, and enjoys exploring nature with her husband in their 1978<br />
Volkswagen campervan. A showcase of award-winning haiku and tanka that<br />
she has incorporated into art may be viewed in The Haiku Foundation Haiga<br />
Galleries. Debbie received the World Haiku Association’s Haiga Award of<br />
Excellence in 2015, two Honorable Mentions in the 2016 Jane Reichhold<br />
Memorial Haiga Competition, and she won The Heron's Nest Cover<br />
Illustration Contest in 2014. Keibooks released her full-length<br />
collection, Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads in 2015, and Folded World<br />
published her haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding, in 2017. A publication<br />
archive, including hundreds of images may be accessed<br />
at https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca.
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