Michael Dylan Welch

MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH is a poet and editor who lives near Seattle, Washington. He has published his poetry, essays, and reviews in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including three Norton poetry anthologies, and his poems have been translated into at least twenty languages. He edited the poetry journals Woodnotes and Tundra, and he also runs a small press, called Press Here (since 1989). From 2013 to 2015 he served as poet laureate for Redmond, Washington. He has won first place in numerous poetry contests, and in 2012 a translation from one of his books (cotranslated from the Japanese with Emiko Miyashita) appeared on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps. He is also a contributing editor to "Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society," and has been a longtime officer of the Haiku Society of America. He also founded the Tanka Society of America, and served as its president for five years. Michael is founder of National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com), and his personal website, devoted mostly to poetry, is www.graceguts.com.