2024 WINNING POEMS (VARIOUS TOPICS) AND BIOS

BY VANDANA PARASHAR

BY VANDANA PARASHAR

Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator, and a haiku poet. Her haiku, senryu, and tanka have been published in many esteemed national and international journals and has won many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award 2020. She is an associate editor of haikuKATHA and one of the editors of Poetry Pea and #FemkuMag. Her debut e-chapbook, “I Am,” was published by Title IX Press (now Moth Orchid Press) in 2019 and her second chapbook, “Alone, I Am Not,” was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in April 2022.

BY ANNA TAKIE

BY ANNA TAKIE

Anna Tackie is a high school student who loves poetry and writing . Words are her favorite type of expression, especially in the form of music or song. “This helps me transition to poetry, or more specifically to haikus,” she says. “I'm also a student of abstract thinking, so I hope my poem stirs up some thoughts for you.”