DEJAN PAVLINOVIĆ, born in 1968, is an English and German teacher, part-time tour guide and member of the indie band The Chweger from Pula, Croatia. He serves on the Iris haiku magazine editorial staff, and he is the founding editor of the Haiku HR Facebook page. He has been writing haiku since 2007.

His haiku poems have been published in Croatia and abroad, awarded and commended on Croatian and international haiku competitions (Kusamakura Haiku Competition, ITOEN, Vladimir Devide Award, The Betty Drevniok Award, Mainichi Haiku Contest, Vancouver Cherry Blossom, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest, R.H. Blyth Award, Santoka Haiga Contest, Ukiah Haiku Festival, Sōka Matsubara International Haiku Contest…).

He is also published in various national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies (Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Blithe Spirit, Presence, IRIS haiku magazine, The Haiku Foundation, Chrysanthemum, Seashores, Senryu To, World Haiku Review, NHK TV Haiku Masters, A Hundred Gourds, The Asahi Shimbun, UnderTheBasho, The Mamba, Failed Haiku, Ephemerae, Cattails, Wales Haiku Journal, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, My Haiku Pond, World Haiku, Sketchbook…).

When not being captured by his family, work, travel, sea, sun, music, football and other blessings, Dejan occasionally publishes his haiku both in English and Croatian on his SMILING CRICKET HAIKU BLOG:

https://smilingcricket.blogspot.com