Jason Sanford Brown is a practicing engineer living in Southern Arizona near Tucson, with his wife and two sons. Haiku discovered Jason sometime around 1991, but left him as a hopeless cause until 1995 when they ran into each other again at the Poet's Market. They had an intermittent relationship until late 2004 when Jason finally got serious. In 2000, Jason cobbled together laughing mountain, a monthly online publication which lasted about three issues. In December 2004, Jason started Roadrunner Haiku Journal which continues to publish new and established writers from around the world. Jason's work can be found in most of the usual places online and in print. One of his haiku was recently selected in the 2005 Basho Memorial Museum Contest, and another was selected in The Fourth Ashiya International Haiku Festa. Jason is a proud member of The Skipping Stones Haiku Group, The Haiku Society of America, and Spadefoot: The Southern Arizona Haiku Society.
Scott Metz was born in Allentown, Pennsylvannia, where he recently moved back to after three and a half years in western Japan. His first collection of haiku, The Youngest Ones, was published in Autumn of 2005 by tribe press (copies still available!) in vincet tripi's pinch book series. His second small collection, lost & found, can be found online at www.tel-let.com, edited by john martone. One of his haiku was recently selected for inside the mirror: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2005 (Red Moon Press 2006). His haiga (haiku illustrations) have appeared and are forthcoming in Contemporary Haibun 7 (Red Moon Press 2006), The World Haiku Association website, Roadrunner, White Lotus and Reeds: Contemporary Haiga 2006 (Lone Egret Press). He is a member of The Haiku Society Society of America, the haiku tribe, and The Skipping Stones haiku group. He recently became co-eitor of the haiku e-zine Roadrunner. He first learned of Haiku as a high school student from "Teddy" in J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories. He graduated from Pennsylvannia State University with a degree in English in 1999.
Chad Lee Robinson first learned of haiku from the South Dakota Poet Laureate David Allan Evans at South Dakota State University, where he graduated in May 2003 with a BA in English. His haiku have been published widely in journals across seven countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, Romania, New Zealand and the UK. Most notably, his work has appeared in tug of the current:The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2004 (Red Moon Press, 2005), inside the mirror: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2005 (Red Moon Press 2006) and A New Resonance 4: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2005). He is a member of the Haiku Society of America, the Haiku Poets of Northern California, and The Skipping Stones Haiku Group. He is also the Plains & Mountains Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America.
Rob Scott was born in Australia and has lived and worked in Japan, Sweden and The Netherlands. He wrote his first haiku on a sunny late winter's day in Tokyo when the first plum blossoms were bursting. He is a founding member of the Australian Haiku Society and a member of MIFA (the Meguro International Haiku Circle), the Haiku Society of America and The Skipping Stones Haiku Group. His work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals and has been anthologized in The Red Moon Anthology 2001-2004 (Red Moon Press, 2002-2005) and the First Australian Haiku Anthology (University of Queensland, 2003). He is also the winner of the Haiku Presence Award 2003.