Marta Chocilowska (born in Warsaw, Poland) – her poems have been published in haiga and haiku journals worldwide, including Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, cattails, Chrysanthemum, Daily Haiga, Frogpond, tinywords, contemporary haibun online, Wales Haiku Journal, and others; quoted in the Presence Journal and Red Moon Press; presented in Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, Per Diem, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Washington D.C. business center. She has co-authored several haiga, haiku, and senryu anthologies.
She has been a prize-winner or judge in domestic and foreign haiku contests; won the Sponsor’s Award in the Ito en Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest 2016 (HIA); nominee for the Ewa Tomaszewska Poetry Award (2019, 2020), winner of this award for 2020); included into Touchstone Award Individual Poems Long List (2021).
Founding member of the Polish Haiku Association and its president since 2018; editor of the Migratory Birds – Polish Haiku Association’s almanac.
She has been working as a volunteer for The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry since 2018.
A cat lover, she resides in Warsaw.
Some anthologized works:
- Faces and Places Haiku Anthology, ed. Don Baird, The Little Buddha Press, 2015;
- The Second International Haiku Conference Anthology, Krakow, 2015;
- Wiśnie i wierzby /cherry trees and willows /sakura to yanagi, ed. A. Żuławska-Umeda, Japonica, 2015;
- Samobor Haiku Meeting Anthologies: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024;
- Igračke / Toys Haiku ed. Đurđa Vukelić Rožić, Tri rijeke Association, 2017;
- Wishbone Moon (Women Haiku Anthology), ed. Roberta Beary, Ellen Compton, Kala Ramesh, Jacar Press, 2018;
- Migratory Birds – Polish Haiku Association Almanac No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022-2024;
- where silence becomes song, BHS International Haiku Conference Anthology, St. Albans, 2019;
- Peonies /Божури, ed. Iliyana Stoyanova, Sofia 2019;
- All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, ed. Robert Epstein, Middle Island Press, 2019;
- World Haiku Anthology, ed. Ban’ya Natsuishi, World Haiku Association No 15 (2019), No 16 (2020);
- The Haiku Hecameron, Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19, ed. Scott Mason, Girasole Press, 2020;
- Window Seats – A Contemporary Anthology of Cat Haiku & senryu, ed. Stanford M. Forrester/ sekiro, bottle rockets press, 2021;
- Rip-Roaring Haiku Anthology, ed. Corine Timmer, Bicadeideias Publishing, 2022;
- The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthologies: Our Garden ed. Jim Kacian & Julie Bloss Kelsey (2022 ) the high lonesome ed. Jim Kacian & Julie Bloss Kelsey (2023); bee here now — small wonders! ed. Scott Mason (2024);
- Turning Japanese An Introduction to short form poetry, ed. Tim Gardiner, Suffolk Poetry Society, 2023;
- The weight of dust. Haiku for Ukraine, ed. Krzysztof Kokot et al. Wydawnictwo Kontekst, 2023;
- Ludbreg Haiku Anthology: 2023, 2024;
- To Live Here – A Haiku Anthology, ed. Giorgia Di Pancrazio & Katherine E Winnick, The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, 2023;
- upside down: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2023, ed. Jim Kacian Red Moon Press, 2023;
- The 3rd International Haiku Conference Anthology 四季+ pory roku+ / seasons+, Krakow, 2024.