2008 Presenters by Genre: Miscellaneous

Michael Dylan Welch Michael Dylan Welch is a poet, editor, and publisher. For many years he was a senior editor at IDG Books, publisher of the yellow "For Dummies" books. For various publishers he has edited more than 200 books, and has more recently been an editor at Microsoft. He's a power-user of Microsoft Word, yet also a poet, and knows the problems that writers have with the software. Michael is also editor/publisher of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem and of award-winning haiku and tanka books with Press Here. He's also a board member of the Washington Poets Association, former vice president of the Haiku Society of America, founder and former president of the Tanka Society of America, and director of the Haiku North America conference. brooksbookshaiku.com/welch/