Poet Profile

Karen Hoy

Karen Hoy works as a Development Producer in factual television; and finds inspiration from the places her TV career takes her, including Texas for the Dallas DNA six episode series by the Discovery Channel. She is a published haiku writer with Snapshot Press (both the journal Snapshots and The Haiku Calendar); Presence magazine; and the British Haiku Society journal Blithe Spirit (and BHS anthologies).

Awards and Other Honors: Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's Nature Writer of the Year Awards (2009); Two Runner-up Awards, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2002 (Snapshot Press). Her work has been selected for inclusion in My Mother Threw Knives, edited by Wendy French, Maggie Sawkins, and Dilys Wood (Second Light Publications, 2006); the American/British anthology, Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends, edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Alan Summers (Press Here, 2010); and Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales, edited by Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones, and Lynne Rees (Gomer Press, 2011), showcasing Wales's haiku pioneers.

Books Published: Resides: Chippenham, England, United Kingdom E-mail: Website:

early dark
the cathedral visible
only as windows

Siena rooftops
sketching the shapes
in my mind

insomnia
the comfort of his breath
down my spine

a new month -
different seeds
on the spaniel's ears

Paris to Milan train
the baby cries
in every language

crowded carriage
the breeze around
a lone ragwort

Credits: "early dark" - Blithe Spirit 13:1 (2003); Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press, 2011); "insomnia" - Presence (2003); Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press, 2011); "Paris to Milan train" - Blithe Spirit 19:4 (2009); Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press, 2011); "Siena rooftops" - Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan, 2004): Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends (Press Here, 2010); "a new month" - The Haiku Calendar 2003 (Snapshot Press, 2002); Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends (Press Here, 2010); Award Credit: Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2002; "crowded carriage" - The Haiku Calendar 2003 (Snapshot Press, 2002); Award Credit: Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2002.