Tom Bierovic, USA

Introducing  : Tom Bierovic (M.Ed., M.Div.) worked in the financial markets as a technical analyst, systems designer, trader, author, and seminar speaker. Retired now, he enjoys reading and writing, playing Native American flutes and Irish whistles, and drumming on bongos and djembe. He is good at backgammon and Trivial Pursuit but bad at billiards and golf. His haiku collections, "Blink of a Duck's Eye," "Paper Boats," and "Each Twirling Seed a Maybe," are available on Amazon. Tom and his wife Laurie (the mystery writer Maggie McChristie) make their home in DeLand, Florida.  

Poetry Awards :

The Haiku Society of America's Harold G. Henderson Award (First Place, 2026), the Seventh Annual Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest (First Place, 2026), the Golden Triangle Haiku Contest (Third Place, 2024), the Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (Second Place, 2024), Sharpening the Green Pencil (Honorable Mention, 2024), the Haiku Society of America's Harold G. Henderson Award (First Place, 2021), the Modern Haiku Journal's Robert M. Speiss Award (First Place, 2021), Japan Fair (First Place, 2021), the 10th Annual Polish International Haiku Competition (Second Place, 2021), the 75th Honorable Basho Memorial Award (Honorable Mention, 2021), the Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (Highly Commended, 2020), the Golden Triangle Haiku Contest (two selections, 2020 and Honorable Mention, 2021), the Japanese Film Festival, Pula, Croatia (2020), the Mainichi, Japan's national newspaper (Best of 2020), and the British Haiku Society's annual awards (Runner-up and Honorable Mention, 2019)

New Year’s Eve
putting the Devil
back in the deck

November 12th 2026