Mark Brooks (Shimi) lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two boys.Mark's poetry has been published and anthologized worldwide, including several editions of the Red Moon Anthology. His haiku and renku have often been honored with awards, including the Mainichi Haiku Contest (first prize), the BHS's James W. Hackett International Haiku Award (highly commended), the HSA's Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition (multiple firsts and seconds), the Snapshots Haiku Calendar Competition (winner and runners-up), and the Penumbra Haiku Competition (finalists).Mark's first manuscript won The Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition in 2002 and was published as A Handful of Pebbles (Snapshot Press, 2006).Mark created the popular haikai journal haijinx in 2001. haijinx suspended activity from 2003 through 2009. In 2010, Mark's haikai twitter feed @haijinx started up and the blog portion of haijinx relaunched in March 2010.Mark has used the haigô Shimi (silverfish) for haikai since 2004. Earlier haiku and renku are signed Mark Brooks.read more ...read less ...
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