Robin Smith has been published widely in the haiku and general literature communities, garnering accolades in several genres. These include a Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2019), a feature in A New Resonance 12: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (2021), a feature in Modern Haiku’s “Spotlight” (2022), and numerous contest wins and placements.
Robin currently serves as Co-editor at Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, Coordinator & Panelist at the Trailblazer Contest, and Associate Editor at Yavanika Press.
Prior to being elected as President of The Haiku Foundation in 2025, they served as Coordinator for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2022-2025) and Associate Coordinator for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards (2021-2022).
Robin has lived a nomadic life, settling down with their partner and son in Delaware. They enjoy birding, learning different languages (currently Hangul), watching K-dramas, listening to K-pop, and walking with the trees.
Collections:
the new green, (Cuttlefish Books, 2021)
Fire Rainbow: A Haibun and Tanka Story Memoir (Human/Kind Press, June 30, 2020)
Controlled Chaos: a series of meandering haiku (Sonic Boom, 2019)
Forsythia (Turtle Light Press, 2019) – 2nd Place in the 2019 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Contest (ebook)
Systems Askew (Yavanika Press, 2019)
“Eraser Marks,” a monthly haibun & art column, at Rhythm and Bones Press’ online magazine Necropolis (2019)
Presentations:
Signature Style: How Identity Informs Voice in Haiku (as GRIX), Haiku Society of America Virtual Conference (2021)
Essays:
Robin has co-authored numerous essays on single-line poems with Kat Lehmann.