Charlotte Digregorio, a retired professor and author of Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing, and five other award-winning books, writes sixteen poetic forms, has won seventy-three poetry awards, and was nominated for four Pushcart Prizes. She was honored by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner in 2018 for her decades of achievements in the literary arts. Her poems have been translated into eight languages; she translates poetry books from Italian into English; and her traveling illustrated poetry show has been featured at numerous U.S. libraries, including the Chicago Public Library, corporate buildings, hospitals, convention centers, restaurants, and museums/galleries. Her individual poems are featured on public transit, at botanic gardens, wooded parks, banks, apparel shops, supermarkets, and wine stores.
Digregorio gives non-fiction and poetry workshops at national writer's conferences, libraries, hospitals and bookstores; is a writer-in-residence at universities; teaches haiku in the public schools; judges national writing contests; speaks regularly at chain bookstores; and is a keynote speaker for non-profit and alumni associations. She hosted a radio poetry program on public broadcasting, and was Vice President of the Haiku Society of America and an Associate of The Haiku Foundation. She blogs about general writing for publication and poetry, and posts work by global poets at www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com. (You may contact her at c-books@hotmail.com.)
Digregorio spent much of her adult life on college/university faculties, teaching foreign languages and writing. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from The University of Chicago and Pomona College, respectively. In 2014, she authored Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All, that is widely recognized as the definitive book for haiku instruction. Her award-winning titles include: You Can Be A Columnist and Beginners’ Guide to Writing and Selling Quality Features, both Writer’s Digest Book Club Featured Selections; and Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Homes: The Family’s Comprehensive Guide to Either Working With The Institution or Finding Care Alternatives. These four titles have been widely adopted as supplemental texts at universities. She also authored Your Original Personal Ad: The Complete Guide to Expressing Your Unique Sentiments to Find Your Dream Person, a popular title in the 1990s. Her haiku and senryu collection, Shadows of Seasons: Selected Haiku and Senryu by Charlotte Digregorio, is now published in The Appendices of Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All.