Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg & Vienna, as a social-worker / counselor, author and lover. He received awards around the globe, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and the Second Place for "Noise of Our Origin" at the 2014 HSA Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards. Member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial Staff since 2013.