Margaret Chula

Poet

Portland, OR
Oregon US
Email: 
margaretjchula@gmail.com
Website: 
www.margaretchula.com

Author's Bio

Margaret Chula has published fourteem collections of poetry including, most recently, Firefly Lanterns: Twelve Years in Kyoto. Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council have supported her work as well as fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Playa. Maggie has been a featured speaker at writers’ conferences throughout the United States, as well as in Poland, Canada, Peru, and Japan. She has also served as president of the Tanka Society of America, as Poet Laureate for Friends of Chamber Music, and on the advisory board for the Center for Japanese Studies. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Writers Retreats: 
Literary Writers Conference
Vermont Studio Center
Willamette Writers Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Moss at Tokeiji (Deep North Press, 2010)
,
Montage, The Book (Haiku Foundation, 2010)
,
Ash Moon Anthology, Short Poems on Aging (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009)
,
Dwarf Stars Award Anthology (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2009)
,
Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness & Open Your Heart (Shambhala Publications, 2009)
,
Streetlights: Poetry of Urban Life in Modern English Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009)
,
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009)
,
Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2008)
,
Deer Drink the Moon (Ooligan Press, 2007)
Books:
Firefly Lanterns: Twelve Years in Kyoto (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2021)
,
Perigee Moon (Red Mountain Press, 2021)
,
One Last Scherzo (Finishing Line Press, 2020)
,
Daffodils at Twilight (Kelsay Books, 2017)
,
What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps (Katsura Press, 2009)
,
The Smell of Rust (Katsura Press, 2005)
,
Always Filling, Always Full (White Pine Press, 2001)
,
Shadow Lines (Katsura Press, 1997)
,
This Moment (Katsura Press, 1995)
,
Grinding my ink (Katsura Press, 1993)
Journals:
Frogpond
,
Modern Haiku
,
Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place
Prizes won: 

Haiku Society of America Book Award, 1993, 2003

Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, 2021

Haiku Society of America Haibun Award, 2021

Haiku Society of America, Second Prize, 2020

Genjuan International Haibun Contest, First Prize

Pushcart Prize Nominations, 2020, 2013, 2012,

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Buddhist
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Brattleboro, VT
Vermont
Raised in: 
Northfield, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Mar 23, 2022