Ignatius FayIgnatius is an invertebrate paleontologist retired due to chronic severe lung/heart disease. Born and raised in Levack, near Sudbury, Ontario, he earned his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, accepting the position as the first invrtebrate paleontologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. Upon becoming disabled, he returned to Sudbury to raise his two daughters and dabble in computer graphics. His lifelong love of words, language and learning provided fertile ground for his introduction to the Japanese poetic form, Haiku, in the late 1980s and he has been writing haiku and senryu since 1990, extending his interests to haibun, tanka and tanka prose in 2010. Ignatius est paléontologue des invertébrés; il est à la retraite en raison d'une grave maladie pulmonaire/cardiaque chronique. Il est né et a grandi à Levack, près de Sudbury, en Ontario. Il a obtenu son doctorat de l'Université de la Saskatchewan à Saskatoon, et a été le premier à occupé le poste de paléontologue des invertébrés au Musée de paléontologie Royal Tyrrell. Devenu invalide, il est retourné à Sudbury pour élever ses deux filles et s'aventurer en infographie. Son amour des mots, des langues et de l'apprentissage lui a permis, a la fin des années 80, de se familiariser avec le haïku, poème classique japonais. Read More Read Less