User:Ray Rasmussen/Ray Rasmussen

Ray Rasmussen is the technical and managing editor of Contemporary Haibun Online, a quarterly journal featuring haibun writing, which he co-founded with haiku poet & content editor Jim Kacian, and which is co-edited by Bruce Ross and Ken Jones. He is also the creator of the webpage designs used by two prominent haiku journals: Simply Haiku and Roadrunner Haiku Journal. Primarily a writer of haibun (a mix of prose and haiku poems), Ray's haiku, haibun and haiga have been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Contemporary Haibun, The Red Moon Annual, Blithe Spirit, the British Haiku Society Haibun Annual, Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Lynx, Haiga on Line, Daily Haiga, Daily Haiku and others. Ray lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and dreamed that he was once a university professor. His principal occupations besides feeding and walking the dogs and the occasional house cleaning is hiking and photography and writing. Ray's Haiku, haibun & haiga website was featured in a Reader's Digest article on haiku.