Vicki Miko is a retired television producer. She is an illustrator, photographer, and poet. This year (2024), she published a responsive tanka poetry book, Alley Craps: Boxcars, with her partner, Michael H. Lester. She received Honorable Mention for the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award, Modern Haiku, and her work has been published in a variety of poetry books. She was nominated for the McKnight Foundation Art Award for her gardening workbooks for the JD Rivers' Children's Garden.
