Julie Schwerin, author of Walking Away From the Sunset (Brooks Books) and Still Growing Wings (Backbone Press), has served as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America (http://www.hsa-haiku.org), as an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest (http://www.theheronsnest.com) and on the Red Moon Anthology Editorial team. She was one of seventeen poets featured in A New Resonance 9 (Red Moon Press) and has co-edited, along with Jim Kacian, Echoes 2, and three books in the A New Resonance series, all of Red Moon Press. In addition, Schwerin was instrumental in establishing The Forest Haiku Walk at the Holmes County Open Air Art Museum in Millersburg, Ohio, the Seasons of Haiku Trail at The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio and Words in Bloom: A Year of Haiku at the Chicago Botanic Garden to feature the work of other poets and bring further awareness to haiku.