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Maya Lyubenova Born: September 12 1956 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria Resides: Kotel, Bulgaria E-mail: mayalyubenova (at) gmail (dot) com Maya teaches English in Philip Kutev National School of Folk Arts – Kotel and writes poetry in English and Bulgarian – haiku, haiga, visual poems and free verse. Awards and Other Honors: In the April issue 2009 of the World Haiga Contest, the Jury named Maya Lyubenova World Haiku Association Master Haiga Artist; In May 2009 her haiku won the second Bulgarian Haiku Contest. Books Published: Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual (English/Bulgarian) haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010).                         Selected Haiku a lemon slice in my whiskey glass this hazy moon broken wall... the barn and a cherry-tree lean on each other a tern's shadow darts across the beach herring clouds spring thunder the newspaper shakes in my hands hot summer noon a grasshopper jumps off his shadow barking at the fisherman’s dog … a herring gull Credits: "a lemon slice" - Sketchbook – A Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms (February 2008); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual--English/Bulgarian--haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010); "broken wall" - Notes from the Gean, Issue 1 (2009); "a tern's shadow" - Frogpond 31:2 (2008); "spring thunder" - First Prize, Second Bulgarian Haiku Contest (2009); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual--English/Bulgarian--haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010); "hot summer noon" - World Haiku Review 6:4 [Neo Classical Haiku] (2008); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual (English/Bulgarian) haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010); "barking" - 3LIGHTS Gallery, Seaside haiku (2008); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual--English/Bulgarian--haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010).