Haiku Happenings #8: Jacob S. interviews #haijin David Oates!

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(2nd Place and Honorable Mention)
Editor of: (books) (anthologies) (journals) (website)
Founder and editor of Monkey, a magazine…
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