M. Kei is an award-winning poet who lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. He is a tall ship sailor who served his apprenticeship aboard a skipjack, a traditional wooden sailboat used to fish for oysters. He is the editor of theAtlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka and the editor-in-chief of the anthology series Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka. His second collection isSlow Motion: Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack (2008). Over 1200 of his tanka have been published in ten countries and six languages. He also writes non-fiction articles about tanka and compiles the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka. Most recently he has published a nautical novel, Pirates of the Narrow Seas, set during the Age of Sail.

Author Spotlight: M. Kei at Mandy's Pages

Book Review: January, A Tanka Diary by M. Kei

Reviews of books Kei has edited:

Book Review: Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 1

Book Review: Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 2 

Book Review: Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 3 

Book Review: Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4