Alexis Rotella won the grand prize in the 2007 Kusamakura Haiku Contest and traveled to Kumamoto, Japan. Her work is widely anthologized including Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, Beneath a Single Moon and most recently Creative Writing: An Introduction to Poetry and Fiction. She served as president of the Haiku Society of America in 1984, and has edited Frogpond and founded and edited Brussels Sprout and Prune Juice Senryu. Her latest haiku book, Between Waves, will be available in spring 2015.
