Kat Lehmann is a founding co-editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem (2021 - present). She is a winner of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize, The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for an Individual Poem, and a nominee for The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. Her contemporary haiku and haibun, more than 600 of which have been published internationally, are informed by a connection with natural cycles and her training as a Ph.D. biochemist. Kat served on the panel for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards (book years 2021-2023) and is a co-founding panelist of the Trailblazer Awards. Visit her online at www.katlehmann.weebly.com or on Bluesky / Instagram @SongsOfKat.