ayaz daryl nielsen, b. 1948, Valentine, Nebraska, attended schools in Wisconsin, Colorado, and Monterrey, Mexico, and has lived in Bonn, Germany. A veteran, former hospice nurse, and ex-roughneck (as on oil rigs), he s edited the print publication bear creek haiku for over 30 years and 155 issues, and is online at bear creek haiku poetry, poems and info. ayaz daryl's poetry, published world-wide, includes senryu voted "best of year" 2010 and 2012 by the Irish Haiku Asso-ciation, scifaiku selected for the Dwarf Award, and he is in The American Haiku Hall of Fame. Chapbooks include Window Left Open, Prolific Press, unique conver-sations and a dog barking somewhere and one more swallow and interplay and in-ner work, Cholla Needles Arts and Literary Library, a 100-page collection a name-less stream, Cholla Needles Press, Sophia s Crockpot, Presa Press, Kissing the Stitches, SCARS Publications, tumbleweeds still tumbling and Saint Moochie's Corner and Witchety Snake Dreaming through Create Space. Among other deeply appreciated honors, he is especially delighted by the depth and heart of poets worldwide whose poems have found a home in bear creek haiku's print and online presence. He now lives in Longmont, Colorado, with his beloved wife, poet and psychoanalyst Judith Partin-Nielsen.