Katherine J. Munro, also known as ‘yukon froghat,’ publishes under the name ‘kjmunro.’ She lives on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. She served for 10 years as Membership Secretary for Haiku Canada, & is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Federation of BC Writers, Haiku Canada, & the Haiku Society of America. In 2014, she founded ‘solstice haiku,’ a monthly haiku discussion group that she continues to facilitate. Since 2018, she has curated a weekly blog feature for The Haiku Foundation. Haiku Dialogue is now managed with guest editors.
Awards and Other Honors:
Her work has placed First in the Canada Category of the 2018 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, The League of Canadian Poets ‘Very Small Verse Contest’ in 2019, & the North Carolina Poetry Society Bloodroot Haiku Award 2020, & has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution.
Books Published:
contractions(Red Moon Press, 2019).
She also has two leaflets with Leaf Press, ( summer evening – number ten in the oak leaflet series, 2013; waiting – number five in the sky leaflet series, 2017) & she co-edited Body of Evidence: a collection of killer ’ku (Catkin Press, 2017) – an anthology of crime-themed haiku – with the late Jessica Simon, who was a crime fiction writer.