⦾ Waiting for Rowan ⦾ 

Rowan Beckett Minor (they/them) is a Melungeon writer, editor, and activist who utilizes poetry for healing. They have had work featured in numerous international journals and anthologies, including: The Red Branch Review, The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, Mayfly, Red River Book of Haibun (Red River Press), and A New Resonance 12 (Red Moon Press). Rowan is the recipient of multiple awards including, three winning poems in the 2023 Trailblazer Contest, Second Place in the 2024 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, and Second Place in the 2025 Haiku Society of America's Brady Senryu Contest. They are also honored to have co-judged the Haiku Society of America’s Brady Senryu Contest (2022), as well as to have given presentations for the Haiku North America Conference (2019, 2021). Rowan also worked as a co-instructor for LitYoungstown in 2022, served as the Haiku Society of America Midwest Regional Coordinator in 2024, and is currently a mentor for the HSA's Haiku Social Club. 

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Although Rowan’s hometown is a tiny Appalachian town in the New River Gorge called Prince, West Virginia and they spent most of their life in a small North Carolina county, they currently reside in Cleveland, Ohio.