Deborah P Kolodji is the California regional coordinator for the Haiku Society of
America and former moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. The
former president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, Kolodji is also is a
member of the Haiku Poets of Northern California , the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Haiku
Canada, the British Haiku Society, and the California State Poetry Society. Author of four
chapbooks of poetry, her first full-length book of haiku and senryu is Highway of
Sleeping Towns, from Shabda Press. Debbie has published more than 1000 haiku in
publications such as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bottle Rockets, A
Hundred Gourds, Acorn, Rattle, and Mayfly, as well as speculative poetry in Strange
Horizons, Star*Line, Grievous Angel, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Tales of the
Unanticipated, Tales of the Talisman, and Dreams and Nightmares. She has also
published short stories in Thema and Tales of the Talisman and a short memoir in Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul. Her work has been anthologized in such publications as The Rhysling Anthology, Red Moon Anthology, Dwarf Stars, Aftershocks: Poetry of Recovery, New Resonance 4, and The Nebula Awards Showcase: 2015. Debbie co-organized the 2013 Haiku North America conference aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, and joined Haiku North America as a director in 2016.
America and former moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. The
former president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, Kolodji is also is a
member of the Haiku Poets of Northern California , the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Haiku
Canada, the British Haiku Society, and the California State Poetry Society. Author of four
chapbooks of poetry, her first full-length book of haiku and senryu is Highway of
Sleeping Towns, from Shabda Press. Debbie has published more than 1000 haiku in
publications such as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bottle Rockets, A
Hundred Gourds, Acorn, Rattle, and Mayfly, as well as speculative poetry in Strange
Horizons, Star*Line, Grievous Angel, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Tales of the
Unanticipated, Tales of the Talisman, and Dreams and Nightmares. She has also
published short stories in Thema and Tales of the Talisman and a short memoir in Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul. Her work has been anthologized in such publications as The Rhysling Anthology, Red Moon Anthology, Dwarf Stars, Aftershocks: Poetry of Recovery, New Resonance 4, and The Nebula Awards Showcase: 2015. Debbie co-organized the 2013 Haiku North America conference aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, and joined Haiku North America as a director in 2016.
