The Team

Shloka Shankar

c0-Founder & Panelist

Shloka Shankar (she/her) is an editor and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and widely published haiku poet, Shloka is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. She is the author of the haiku collections The Field of Why and within our somehows, and co-author of the haiga anthology, living in the pause.

Shloka serves as Managing Editor of The Haiku Foundation's Haiku of the Day feature and Volunteer Anthology.

Website: www.shlokashankar.com

Robin Smith

c0-Founder & Panelist

Robin Smith (they/them) is a disabled artist who spends their days writing and drawing themselves into the bodies of other animals and plants.

Their work has earned numerous accolades, including the Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2019) and a feature in A New Resonance 12: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (2021), among others.

Robin is a founder and editor at whiptail: journal of the single-line poem and Associate Editor at Yavanika Press. They have served as the President of The Haiku Foundation and are currently a Member-at-large on The Haiku Foundation's Board of Directors.