Zhanna Korobova-Rader (a.k.a. Zhanna P. Rader) was born in Serpukhov, Moscow region, Russia. She graduated from the Library Science Institute in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1972, in Kiev, Ukraine, she married an American professor of Russian history. She came to Athens, Georgia, USA, in 1973, and has been living there ever since. She and her husband have two sons. Zhanna writes variety of poetry and short stories both in Russian and in English. Her haiku have been widely published in several countries. She is the Moderator of WHCRussian haiku forum of the World Haiku Club, and an editor of World Haiku Review.

Norman Darlington is founder of Lishanu journal. He has a particular interest in the development of haikai literature across linguistic divisions, and has participated in a number of interlingual renku, in Croatian, Slovenian, Hebrew and other languages. He is author of the Triparshva, a proposal for a 22 verse renku pattern designed to facilitate a closer approximation of the classical style, than that afforded by other short patterns, published by Simply Haiku at http://snipurl.com/triparshva. He lives in rural Ireland with his wife and four children.