Sandra Simpson lives in Tauranga, New Zealand, a city built around estuaries and on the Pacific Ocean in the aptly named Bay of Plenty. An award-winning haiku poet, Sandra is editor of the online Haiku NewZ:

https://poetrysociety.org.nz/affiliates/haiku-nz/haiku-happenings/

and has recently co-edited ‘number eight wire’, the fourth New Zealand haiku anthology. She blogs about haiku at breath (a website named for her first collection).

https://breathhaiku.wordpress.com/

Interests outside haiku include growing orchids for fun (!), reading, travel and photography.