Barry George

Barry George is a regular contributor to leading international haiku journals. His poems have been published in Japanese, French, German, and Romanian translations, and have appeared in the anthologies A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku and The New Haiku, as well as seven of the annual Best Haiku collections published by Red Moon Press. A recipient of the 2009 AWP Intro Poets Awards, he has also won numerous Japanese short-form competitions, including the Gerald R. Brady Contest and The Mainichi Daily News Contest. He has twice been a featured poet at the Robert Frost Poetry Festival in Key West. His essay, “Shiki the Tanka Poet,” will be published in an upcoming issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. A graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program, he lives and teaches in Philadelphia.