Mary Mageau is the author of In the Eye of a Storm, The Trousseau, and An Antique Brooch. She also is an award-winning composer and writer. Born and educated in the United States, she has lived in Australia since 1974. Her writings in the Japanese verse forms of haiku, tanka and haibun are published in the United States by Red Moon Press and MET Press. Mary's poetry also appears in American, Canadian and Australian anthologies and literary journals. Her haibun poems were published in Triptych Poets, Volume I (Blemish Books, 2010).