Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet, visual artist, and photographer whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself. Thousands of Debbie's poems have appeared in leading journals worldwide, and she has been the featured/cover artist for two dozen publications. Her most recent book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations, won the Sable Books 2019 International Women's Haiku Contest and Haiku Canada's 2022 Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award. It also received an Honourable Mention in the Haiku Society of America's 2021 Merit Book Awards. Debbie's haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, received the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award, and is forthcoming from the press in 2023.