About M. Shayne Bell
M. SHAYNE BELL received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1991). Bell's haiku have been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Heron's Nest, Wales Haiku Journal, Blithe Spirit, Tinywords, Shot Glass, O:JA&L, Haikuniverse, and Mainichi Japan. Bell's poetry has also been published in The Ghazal Page, Cathexis Northwest, Fibonacci Review, Typishly, Asimov’s, and Once Upon a Midnight (an anthology commemorating the 150th anniversary of Poe’s “The Raven”). Bell grew up on a ranch outside of Rexburg, Idaho; he and his four cats live in Rexburg.