Anna Banasiak is a poet,occupational therapist and literary critic from Lodz, Poland. She studied Polish philology and culture studies at the University of Warsaw. She is the winner of poetry competitions in Berlin, London and Bratislava. She is the winner of gold,silver,bronze medal on All poetry and First Place in All about love challenge. She is the winner of poetry competitions on Poems and Quotes. Her poems have appeared in New York, London, Surrey, Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Japan,China.Israel. She published a book for children and book of poems "Duet of Waves" co-authored with Yoshimasa Kanou and "Duet of Tears" co-authored with Noriko Nagaoka. She loves helping people through art therapy.

Yoshimasa Kanou was born in 1974, poet and Calligrapher. Graduated from Osaka University of Arts. 2002 Member of Kansai Poets Association and Japan Universal Poets Association. Poetry Magazine “PO” “Blackpan””Skip Genshijin” “Rainbow singers” Editor-chief of Magazine “Miraishi”.
He was awarded NHK Heart Exhibition 1997 , Osaka Bungaku School Award 2011, and JUNPA New Face Poet in 2012. the Mayor of Yamato Koriyama City Prize in the 25th National culture festival in Nara (2017)
Publication: “Muso-mado”,Sougei (1991) (Dreaming Window）“Tainai no mori“(2004,) (Forest in my body) ,”Mirai e no sampo”(2007) (Walk toward the future). English-Japanese Bilingual Poetry Collection: “Dreaming Window” (2012) “Duet of Dreams” co-authored with Clelia Ifrim(2015)
Participation: Western-Eastern Poets in Sympathy: Poetry Reading in Kyoto 2012, 2015