Denis M. Garrison, editor and publisher of Modern English Tanka, lives near Maryland's Chesapeake Bay with his wife, Deborah. In the 1970s, he edited Towson University’s literary magazine and taught creative writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Free University. His poetry's published in Poetry Scotland, Ribbons, Tangled Hair, Nightingale, Eucalypt, Simply Haiku, Moonset, Wisteria, Roadrunner, Trilopia, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, and many others, and in his books, Hidden River (haiku), Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir, and Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems. He has edited Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir, Templar Phoenix, Haiku Cycles, Gunpowder River Poetry, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, and Loch Raven Review. See his online bookstore at Modern English Tanka Press.

Michael McClintock, the contributing editor of Modern English Tanka, resides in California, alternating his home between Fresno in the central San Joaquin Valley, South Pasadena, and Los Angeles. An extensive discussion of his poetry, critical theory and practice in tanka, haiku, haibun and related poetry, may be found in Barbara Ungar's book, Haiku in English, Stanford University (Stanford Honors Essay in the Humanities, No. XXI, copyright 1978, Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University). McClintock holds degrees in English and American Literature, Asian Studies, and Information Sciences from Occidental College and the University of Southern California. His recent publications include The Tanka Anthology (Red Moon Press, 2003; review by David Burleigh in Japan Times, March 6, 2005) and Letters in Time: Sixty Short Poems (Hermitage West, 2005; review by Johnye Strickland in Simply Haiku. He is president of the Tanka Society of America and writes and edits "The Tanka Cafe" for Ribbons: Journal of the Tanka Society of America. For additional information, see Janice Bostok's interview of Michael McClintock, "Contemporary English-language Haiku and the Long View" in the Stylus Poetry Journal (2002).