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Biography
Monica Kakkar (she/her/hers) values her freedom and peace and cherishes silence and solitude.
She is grateful that haiku found her. She feels fortunate to belong to a global community of poets.
Two of her haiku have been nominated for The Haiku Foundation's 2025 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems.
A suite of haiku has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2025.
Her haiku have won awards, reached final shortlists, been translated into four languages, and published on five continents.
She enjoys location independence and has no social media presence except LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicakakkar
Monica Kakkar's Haiku Imperium Publications
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May 15th, 2026 in Haiku Imperium Collection #2
Haiku Contest #13 – First Place
"hum of a highway" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026 in Haiku Magazine
"symphony of sighs" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026 in Haiku Asia and Oceania
"splendor of sunburst" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
January 15th, 2026 in Haiku Asia and Oceania
Haiku Asia and Oceania Contest #1 – First Place
"cups of spicy chai" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
January 15th, 2026 in Haiku Magazine
"blue moon by the bay" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
Artist Collection Status
– 5 out of 12.
– At 12 publications, an Artist Collection will be published
in the Library.
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