Recipient of the 2017 Louisiana Writer Award, Johnette Downing is a musician, author, illustrator, and haiku poet with twenty-eight books and eleven recordings. Cofounder of the former New Orleans Haiku Society, Johnette's haiku have appeared in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Red Moon Anthologies, and World Haiku, among others. Her poem "ripples in the pond" received a Haiku International Association Honorable Mention Award in Japan. She divides her time between New Orleans, Louisiana and Newburyport, Massachusetts. Singing Waters is her first book of haiku, senryu, and haibun.