Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle, Washington. He is the author of five books of poetry and three books of haiku. Several of his haiku were included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, from W.W. Norton (2013). His most recent full-length book is Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island's Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor, from Unsolicited Press (2019). American Book Award winner Anna Odessa Linzer wrote of Departures: "This collection finds me at a loss for words to describe the perfect beauty, the searing pain held in his words." Finishing Line Press published his chapbook, The Return, in 2021, which was reviewed by British editor and poet Matthew Paul in The Sphinx in the U.K., who noted Mike Dillon's "quiet, almost effortlessly-crafted poetry which asks deep questions."
