Annette Makino

Annette Makino is a poet and artist who writes haiku and senryu and illustrates them with Japanese ink paintings. Her work is known for brief, quiet Zen-inflected images and gentle humor. She contributes haiga to tinywords, a site for small poems, across many issues. She sells cards, prints and calendars through Makino Studios and has published haiku in several journals, including Frogpond and Modern Haiku. She is also the author of the children's book Yung Stands Strong.