Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on the Salish Sea northwest of Seattle, from where he writes poetry, essays and occasional book reviews. The former publisher of a group of community newspapers in Seattle, he is the author of six books of poetry, two poetry chapbooks, and three books of haiku. His essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Kyoto Journal, Rain Taxi, The Galway Review, Northwest Asian Weekly, and other venues in this country and abroad. Among his journalism awards is a first place from the Society of Professional Journalists for a three-part series on sex abuse. He is also editor of Notes from the Garden: Creating a Pacific Northwest Sanctuary, by Madeleine Wilde. Several of his haiku were included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, from W.W. Norton (2013).