About the Author
Garry Gay was born in Glendale, California
in 1951. He received a BPA degree from Brooks Institute of Photography
in 1974 and has been a professional photographer since his graduation.
He is skilled in all formats and has been creating digital images
since 1993. His award winning Polaroid Transfers have hung in
numerous juried art shows. He is a proud member of Advertising
Photographers of America, Film Arts Foundation, Friends of Photography,
Artrails, and the Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County.
Greatly influenced by Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North, he has steadily been writing haiku from 1975 to
the present. He is one of the co-founders of the Haiku Poets
of Northern California, serving as their first president from
1989-1990. In 1991 he was elected president of the Haiku Society
of America.
Garry Gay is the creator of the poetic form
called Rengay, a linked haiku form
usually written through a collaborative exchange.
He currently lives in the California wine
country, in a small town called Windsor, with his wife, Melinda,
and daughter, Alissa.
Other publications by Garry
Gay:
The Billboard Cowboy (Smythe-Waithe
Press: Kentfield, CA ), 1982.
The Silent Garden (Smythe-Waithe
Press: Kentfield, CA ), 1982.
Wings of Moonlight (Smythe-Waithe
Press: Windsor, CA ), 1993.
River Stones (Saki Press: Normal,
IL), 1999. (A Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest
Winner).
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