"Bruce Ross" is a Canadian poet, author, humanities educator and past president of the Haiku Society of America. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario/Hamilton, Ontario.

Ross has taught Japanese poetry and painting forms for many years at a number of institutions, including Empire State College, Burlington College, the University of Vermont, the University of Alberta, and the University of Maine. He has lectured on haiku in the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Romania. His anthologies and instructional books are in numerous libraries. Ross is well known for his claim that Matsuo Bash? was the inventor of haiku.

Ross's original Haiku in English/English language haiku, senry?, haibun, Tanka in English/tanka, haiga, and collaborative renku have appeared in international haiku journals, as have his reviews and articles.

Ross lives with his wife Astrid, a physician and English language haiku poet, in Hampden, Maine/Hampden, Maine.

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My mom, she had a lot of medical problems, and she eventually died from a kidney infection, and she passed on Feb. 12.

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He seemed to be a favorite in the family.

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When (Glen) got married, they had two natural born children born exactly to the date.

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They simply made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. We now have the largest trust practice on the West Coast.

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