Roberta Beary is the haibun editor of Modern Haiku; she tweets her photoku @shortpoemz. Her book The Unworn Necklace was named a William Carlos Williams Finalist by the Poetry Society of America in 2008, the First such honor for a book of haiku. A frequent judge of haiku and haibun contests, she travels worldwide to give workshops
on the art of the short poem. Her poetry is featured in the reference work A Companion to Poetic Genre (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and in
the anthology Haiku In English The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013).
