Shalini Pattabiraman
Born: India
Resides: Dundee, Scotland
Shalini has a background in facilitating learning through drama and literature. She has worked with different age groups and currently teaches English at a secondary school in Scotland. Her writing appears in a few journals and anthologies. You can find her work on her Instagram page and her blog. She mainly dabbles in poetry and is moved by the simplicity and beauty of haikai literature in English.
Awards and Honours:
Ken and Noragh Jones Award for Haibun 2020 (The British Haiku Society)
haiku
evening news
only the birds
arrive home
busy hands
a loom lulls
the baby to sleep
the turn of wheels
out of dense fog
a wolf's cry
spring...
inside a hollowed tree
a woodpecker's nest
Publication Credits:
evening news: Wales Haiku Journal, spring issue, 2020; busy hands: The Haiku Foundation-Haiku Dialogue ‘Connection through Art'; spring: World Haiku Series (2020) Akita Haiku