The Haiku Foundation Committees are the vehicles through which most of our projects are realized, including planning, short- and long-term strategies of implementation, funding and maintenance. They are staffed by volunteers with a special interest and expertise in the topics they address. We welcome your enquiries.

	Clayton Beach (re:Virals editor) lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and children. He studied Japanese language and culture at the University of California, San Diego. His poetry is syncretic, drawing inspiration from both Western and Eastern traditions, and has been published in a wide range of journals including Modern Haiku, Bones, Rattle and NOON: journal of the short poem. When not researching or writing haiku he enjoys gardening, cooking and hiking the Oregon woods.
	Brad Bennett, our Education Resources co-chair, has been an elementary school teacher in the Boston area for over twenty years. He has taught haiku to eager young writers during each of those years as part of writing units and extra-curricular poetry clubs.
	Thomas R. Borkowski, treasurer of The Haiku Foundation, is chairperson of the Budget & Finance Committee. He is a retired pilot, and served as treasurer for the Haiku Society of America.
	Theresa A. Cancro (re:Virals editor), born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, now resides in Wilmington, Delaware. She began writing poetry as a young child, standard haiku at the age of 17, and has been writing modern English-language haiku, senryu, haibun and tanka for nearly a decade. Her poetry has been published in many print and online journals, including Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, tinywords, Presence, Shamrock, Chrysanthemum, Frameless Sky, Wild Plum, Failed Haiku, Haibun Today, Ribbons, as well as various anthologies. She was the featured poet in the May 2016 issue of Cattails. Her haiku was included in a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of Haiku 2018.
	Garry Eaton is The Haiku Foundation Digital Librarian, focusing on archiving and organization. Garry made his career in another field, but has strong interest in helping the haiku world preserve its greatest provenance, the work great and small produced by its poets.
	Bruce Feingold, who chairs the Touchstone Awards Committee, is a psychologist practicing in the San Francisco area, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation. He lives in Berkeley, California.
	Jim Kacian, besides serving as President of The Haiku Foundation, chairs the Publications Committee as well as the Archives Committee.
	Dave Russo is a founding member of The Haiku Foundation. He has managed the Foundation web site for over a decade, since its inception. He coordinates the work of web volunteers, guest editors, and service providers.
	Stella Pierides co-manages Haikupedia on The Haiku Foundation website, as well as serving as a member of the board of directors. She has published fiction as well as poetry, and divides her time between her homes in Neusaess, Germany, and London.
	Charles Trumbull co-manages Haikupedia on The Haiku Foundation website. He is a past editor of Modern Haiku and has organized two Haiku North American conferences. He lives in Santa Fe.