Maki Starfield was born in Ehime, 1972. She earned her Master of Arts from Sophia University and then got the diploma of International business management (postgraduate) with Honors from Niagara College and the certificate of TESOL from St. George International College in Canada. She began to make haiku in 2008, where she became the recipient of a prize at the12th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest. In February of 2012, she published a new collection, “Kiss the Dragon”. She has recently been performing as a painter as well as a poet. She participated in Design Festa Vol.40 in Tokyo Big Site in 2014 and recently contemporary art exhibitions. She won a prize at the contemporary art (kindaibi jutsu) association's public recruitment exhibition in 2017 and 2018. She is a member of Japan Universal Poets Association as well as an editor of the online international journal "Poetic-Bridge: Ama hashi" and JUNPA BOOKS. She is also a regular member of Sokyu and Sawa in Japanese haiku associates.

Japanese-English Bilingual Books: “Duet of Dots” co-authored with Naran Matos in 2015, “Duet of Lines” co-authored with Luca Benassi, “Trio of Crystals” co-authored with Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald in 2017. “Trio of Gardens” co-authored with Lidia Chiarelli and Huguette Bertrand. “Duet of Fireflies” co-authored with Bill Wolak, “Duet of Doors” co-authored with Yesim Agaoglu, “Duet of Mists” co-authored with Dileep Jhaveri,  “Duet of Jade” co-authored with Xiao Xiao in 2018 and “Duet of Islands” co-authored with Sarah Thilykou in 2018.

Other publications include notably JUNPA 5th Anniversary Commemorative International Poetry Festival Reading Poems Anthology (2017), ATUNIS GALAXY Anthology (2018), The International Festival Poetry Anthology in Romania (2018) and Taji Mahal Review(2018).

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