Alexis Rotella


Alexis K. Rotella is an American poet and artist. She has written poems in several of the traditional styles of Japanese poetry, including haiku, senryū, renga, and haibun.

Biography

She received an bachelor's degree in Zen Buddhism from Drew University and a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy.
In 1984, she served as the President of the Haiku Society of America and edited it's haiku journal Frogpond during that time.
She founded Prune Juice, an English-language journal for senryū, in 2009.
She is the 2019-2020 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento.

Personal life

She currently resides in Arnold, Maryland.

Poetry