Country of Residence:USA

Website:davidoatesathensga.com

Brief bio: https://haikupedia.org/article-haikupedia/david-oates/

Current Occupations: radio host, writer, teacher

Past Occupations: reporter, teacher, comic-strip writer

Haiku-Related Volunteer Positions/Affiliations:

• HSA (Haiku Society of America)
• HNA (Haiku North America)
• British Haiku Society
• Haiku Canada
• HSA Southeast
• Volunteer teaching haiku

Interests/Hobbies: standup and sketch comedy (writing and performing), writing fiction and non-haikaipoetry, improv, reading, hosting and producing my radio show, and emceeing the local poetry reading

Book Publications:

• The Deer’s Bandanna (haiku & senryu), Brick Road Poetry Press, 2019
• Drunken Robins (haiku & senryu), Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011
• Shifting with My Sandwich Hand(haiku & senryu)
• Night of the Potato(stories and poems), Sow’s Ear Press, 1994

Awards & Honorable Mentions:

• The Golden Triangle Haiku Contest (2 Runners Up)
• The Tuscaloosa Cherry Blossom Festival Contest(2^nd Place and Honorable Mention)

Editor of: (books) (anthologies) (journals) (website)

Founder and editor of Monkey, a magazine…