Ed Bremson is an award-winning haiku poet. He has been writing for more than sixty years. For about forty+ years he aspired to be a novelist, and in fact he did write two novels. During all that time he also wrote many short stories and songs, as well as several plays, screenplays, many blog posts, and published 12 poems. Of course in his life, he spent many years working. The last two jobs he held before retiring, the ones he enjoyed the most, were as Reference Assistant at a large academic library, and Stay-at-Home Dad. In 2007, when he was sixty years old, frustrated with fiction, and his creative life seemingly going no place, he stopped everything he was doing and began pursuing an MFA degree in Creative Nonfiction online from National University. During the course of his studies, he realized his love for poetry, and haiku in particular, deciding then to concentrate on poetry. Since graduating, he made the Longlist of the 2011 Montreal Prize; he has won prizes and Honorable Mentions in many contests, including twice in the Kusamakura Haiku contest; and luckily several hundred dollars from other contests. His poems have been published in many journals worldwide. In 2017-2018 he was chosen three times Haiku Master of the Week, by NHK World, Japanese TV. Most recently a book of his poems, “In the Eyes of a Butterfly” was translated into Japanese and published in Japan 2023. Ed is 77 years old and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.