John Brandi lives with his wife, poet Renée Gregorio, in El Rito, New Mexico where he continues to write, paint and nurture a few melons in the garden. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, the White Pine World of Voices Poetry Award, and teaching grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. He gave the keynote address for the Haiku North America Conference in Ottawa, Canada, 2009; and for the Punjabi Haiku Conference, Punjab University, India, 2010. His papers are in the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.