Simply Haiku: An E-Journal - w.f. owen, Haibun Editor

w.f. owen, Editor – Haibun
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w.f. owen was born in 1947 in Austin, Texas. He resides in Antelope, California, just outside Sacramento and currently is a Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Sacramento. His main teaching interests include interpersonal communication and the role of artistic communication in personal development.

He was educated at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializing in speech and English education, and at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he received a PhD in Speech Communication in 1982.

Bill has published haiku, senryu and haibun in such journals as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, bottle rockets, Mayfly and Contemporary Haibun. He won the Harold Henderson Haiku Contest in 2004 and the Gerald Brady Senryu Contest in 2002 and 2003. In 2001, he appeared as a featured poet in A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku and has appeared in the Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku each of the last five years. He was a featured reader at the 2003 Haiku Poets of Northern California's Two Autumns Reading and edited the Two Autumns chapbook, If I Met Bashô, in 2005. As President of the Central Valley Haiku Club, he co-edited the club's three chapbooks: blink, feel of the handrail and Tangled in Dreams. His book, small events: haibun by w.f. owen, will be published in 2006.