⦾ 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 shortlisted poems for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem, three winning poems in the 2023 Trailblazer Contest, and Second Place in the 2024 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku. They are 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 and served as the Haiku Society of America Midwest Regional Coordinator in 2024. 

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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.