Gareth Nurden was born and raised in Newport, Wales and has been writing poetry since his teenage years and more recently has shifted his focus onto the writing and publishing of haiku, senryu and haiga. Gareth has had several hundred pieces of his work published in twenty countries worldwide by many websites, e-zines, anthologies, blogs and journals. Gareth has also had several of his pieces nominated for the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for individual poem in 2024 and 2025.