Robert Mestre is an award winning poet, author, and artist with many publication credits and awards. He has also written under the Haigo 'pen-name' Toshiro Takeshita. Robert is the co-founder of The Artifex Mens Congregatio ( Artistic Minds Society ) which was created to bring together in friendship and community highly intelligent individuals in the artistic community. Membership requires testing at or above 99.87 % (IQ 145 SD 15, 148 SD 16 or 172 SD 24), on at least one of our accepted tests. He is Co-Founder of Simply Haiku http://www.simplyhaiku.com, a highly respected journal of Japanese short form poetry and art. He also works as a freelance editor and journalist for Reptile Care Magazine. He has designed and developed many sites and won numerous awards for web design and development.