Adele Kenny, founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series (1998-preent), and poetry editor of Tiferet Journal, (since 2006) is a poet and nonfiction writer whose poems, articles, and reviews have been widely published throughout the U.S. and abroad.

A three-term president of the Haiku Society of America, she has won numerous haiku awards, including a first place Merit Book Award, first place Henderson Award, first place Raymond Roseliep Memorial Award, first place Renku Award, first place Haiku Quarterly Award, various best of issue awards, Museum of Haiku Literature Awards, a Tiny Poems Press Award, and one of her haiku appeared on the marquee of the Rialto West Theater in NYC as part of the 42nd Street Art Project. Her haiku have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, and Russian.

She is the recipient of two NJ State Arts Council poetry fellowships for her longer poems, several agency-sponsored writing grants, a Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, a Writer’s Digest Poetry Award, the International Book Award for Poetry, a Women of Excellence Award for her work in the arts and humanities, and Kean University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Her book A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing At All was a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist. A former creative writing professor in the College of New Rochelle’s Graduate School, and former writing instructor at the John H. Stamler Police Academy, she has read her poetry in the U.S., England, France, and Ireland, and has twice been a Geraldine R. Dodge Festival poet.

Website: http://www.adelekenny.com

Poetry Blog: http://www.adelekenny.blogspot.com