Kat Lehmann is a The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award-winning haiku poet based in New England, USA. Her work is included in the anthologies A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, Haiku 2022, and Haiku 2023, among others.
Trained as a Ph.D. biochemist, what first inspired her to write poetry was the self-discovery of endured hardship and loss. She decided to share her work with the hope that her healing journey would engage readers on their journeys through pain and wonder. Since those early days, hundreds of her poems have been published by literary journals, international contests, and anthologies.
Kat's work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions for haibun (Modern Haiku, 2023), the Pushcart Prize for a multi-haiku form she created (sudo-ku; Rattle, 2023), the Pushcart Prize for poetry (Sonic Boom, 2021), and Best of the Net for haibun (Human/Kind Journal, 2019).
Kat is co-founder and co-chief editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem. She is a panelist in The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (2021-present), co-judged the 2022 Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson Haiku Award, and is a Trailblazer Contest co-founder and former panelist.
Kat enjoys exploring the storytelling possibilities of haibun as well as single- and multi-haiku forms. One such multi-ku form she created, called sudo-ku, weaves several thematically related haiku to express a unified poem. Sudo-ku have been published in poetry journals and recognized as a semi-finalist of the 2021 Rattle Poetry Prize. Kat's science background continues to inform her nature-centered explorations and fuels the soulful resonance of her poetic works.
Kat lives with her family on the edge of an old-growth fairy forest filled with streams and the inspiration of trees growing around boulders. She enjoys hiking and doing clay work on a potter's wheel.
Social: @SongsOfKat
Trained as a Ph.D. biochemist, what first inspired her to write poetry was the self-discovery of endured hardship and loss. She decided to share her work with the hope that her healing journey would engage readers on their journeys through pain and wonder. Since those early days, hundreds of her poems have been published by literary journals, international contests, and anthologies.
Kat's work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions for haibun (Modern Haiku, 2023), the Pushcart Prize for a multi-haiku form she created (sudo-ku; Rattle, 2023), the Pushcart Prize for poetry (Sonic Boom, 2021), and Best of the Net for haibun (Human/Kind Journal, 2019).
Kat is co-founder and co-chief editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem. She is a panelist in The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (2021-present), co-judged the 2022 Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson Haiku Award, and is a Trailblazer Contest co-founder and former panelist.
Kat enjoys exploring the storytelling possibilities of haibun as well as single- and multi-haiku forms. One such multi-ku form she created, called sudo-ku, weaves several thematically related haiku to express a unified poem. Sudo-ku have been published in poetry journals and recognized as a semi-finalist of the 2021 Rattle Poetry Prize. Kat's science background continues to inform her nature-centered explorations and fuels the soulful resonance of her poetic works.
Kat lives with her family on the edge of an old-growth fairy forest filled with streams and the inspiration of trees growing around boulders. She enjoys hiking and doing clay work on a potter's wheel.
Social: @SongsOfKat