Welch, Michael Dylan

Michael Dylan Welch is a poet, editor, and publisher. In 1991 he cofounded Haiku North America, and has edited all twelve HNA conference anthologies. In 1996 he cofounded the American Haiku Archives, and in 2000 he founded the Tanka Society of America, serving as its president for five years. He is currently first vice president of the Haiku Society of America. His poems have won first place in numerous contests (including the Henderson, Brady, Tokutomi, and Drevniok contests), and have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than a dozen languages-including a tanka translatio...