Donna Claire Gallagher was born a Californian in Wisconsin and was raised in western Pennsylvania. It was 43 years before she actually arrived physically on the "Left" Coast in Sunnyvale, California. Claire has had incarnations since young adulthood as a potter, educator, radio journalist, technical writer, naturalist hike leader for a land preserve agency, and dilettante extraordinaire as well as haiku poet. Claire supports and is supported by three haiku societies. She is the editor in chief of Mariposa, the journal of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. She edited HSA’s .Crinkled Sunshine: Members’ Anthology 2000 and HPNC’s Flows Down the Mountain: Members’ Anthology 1997. Reading and writing haiku contribute to her living more mindfully and more heartfully. Hiking with her husband, gardening, ikebana, attending musical performances and films, and participating in delectations with her family and friends are among the joys that enrich her life and work. She has long fantasized that if she were named in the traditional Native American way, her name would be Walking Heart. However, she has come recently to accept that she would more likely be dubbed Lights Many Fires. Claire’s poems have won numerous awards in her 9 years of writing: two James Hackett firsts as well as a Highly Commended from the British Haiku Society; English Haiku Convention on Water, River, Lake, and Sea 2001, Secretariat Prize, (Japan); ranking and HM’s in the Gerald Brady Senryu Contest from the Haiku Society of America; three firsts and other awards in the Haiku Poets of Northern California International Haiku and Senryu Contests and HM’s in HPNC rengay contests; ranking and HM’s in the Hawaiian Education Association Contest; firsts, ranking, and HM’s in the National League of American Pen Women, Palomar Branch Poetry Contests; ranking and highly commended poems in the New Zealand Poetry Society Contest; two firsts in Peoples’ Poetry Haiku and Senryu Contest; two best of issue poems in South by Southeast; first, ranking, and HM’s in Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Kiyoshi Tokutomi Memorial Contest. Claire’s work has appeared in: Basho Festival Dedicatory Anthology (1996, 1997, 1998); Beyond Within: A Collection of Rengay, 1997, Ed. Cherie Hunter Day; Haiku Troubadours 2000: A Contemporary World Haiku Anthology from Japan, 2000, Ban’ya Natsuishi; Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, 1996, William J. Higginson; Paper Lantern: HPNC Two Autumns Reading; Poems of Feeling and Creativity, 1998, Mainichi Shimbun; The Red Moon Anthology (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001); Where Sky Meets Sky: Toronto Haiku Splash Anthology, 1999, Ed. LeRoy Gorman; and Young Leaves: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society 25th Anniversary, 2000, Ed. June Hymas. Also, Claire has appeared in numerous members’ anthologies and contest anthologies. Claire’s work has appeared in diverse periodicals: Albatross, Blithe Spirit, black bough, bottle rockets, Electronic Poetry Network (Shreveport, LA), Frogpond, Geppo, haijinx, The Heron's Nest, Honolulu Advertiser, Hummingbird, Mariposa, Modern Haiku, RAW NerVZ, South by Southeast, Starfish, Woodnotes, and others. haiku (in haiga): "fish circling" - Frogpond XIX:1
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haiku: "little black book" - previously unpublished
haiku: "summer concert" - HSA Brady Senryu contest 3rd, 1995
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