A fifth generation native Californian, Naia was raised in a country home in the Sacramento farm valley and attended college at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo.

Naia's poetry and haiga have appeared world-wide in magazines, books, anthologies, e-journals, and newsletters (including The Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Hermitage, Words and Pictures, Acorn, The Hermitage, South by South East, American Haiku and Haibun, The Redmoon Anthologies, Haiku Society of America's Anthologies, Tempes Libre, and LYNX).

Naia may be contacted at: naia01@yahoo.com

Webpage: http://naia.ws/