LEE GURGA
Lee Gurga is a past president of the Haiku Society of America and associate
editor of Modern
Haiku, the oldest and most respected journal of haiku and haiku studies outside
Japan. He has
lectured on haiku in the U.S., the U.K, and Japan, and been quoted on haiku in
The New York
Times, The New Age Journal and the Entrepreneur Magazine. His
haiku poems have won the
top prize in contest in the U.S., Canada and Japan. His books, In &
Out of Fog (Press Here)
and Fresh Scent (Brooks Books) were both awarded
First Prize in the Haiku Society of
America’s Merit Book Awards for 1997 and 1998 respectively. In 1998, he was
awarded an
Illinois Arts Council Poetry Fellowship for his work in haiku. He has a
regular haiku column in
the Illinois Times in Springfield, Illinois and Solares Hill in Key West,
Florida. He lives in rural
Lincoln, Illinois and Key West.
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