December 2003, Volume 1, Number 6 Raffael de Gruttola
He has two books of poetry published: Where Ashes Float in 1980 and Flamenco Song in 1983. His first book of haiku, Recycle, was published in 1989. A book of haiga, Echoes in Sand, was published in 2001 with images provided by Wilfred Croteau. He is a past president and treasurer of the Haiku Society of America and its first Northeast Regional Coordinator. He was a founding member of the Boston Haiku Society in 1987. He is a founding member of two renku groups, The Metro West Renku Association and the Immature Green Heron, both of which meet on a regular basis.
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Raffael de Gruttola was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.