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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.
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Kat Lehmann Honestly, I don't believe in writer's block. The idea of writer's block seems like an unnecessary judgement on the creative process. Both consciously …moreHonestly, I don't believe in writer's block. The idea of writer's block seems like an unnecessary judgement on the creative process. Both consciously and unconsciously, we are continuing to snap ideas together like puzzle pieces. When a picture comes into focus, we see it as an idea, or an epiphany, or the "muse". In reality, I think the idea was steadily forming all along. It just reached a threshold of understanding where we could identify it. Writing, and much of life, I think, is about process, not destination. Creativity and productivity does much better when we can free it from needless expectations and demands.(less)

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Kat Lehmann Thank you for your question! I write based on personal experience. I take time to unpack an emotion or experience until I discover its inner nugget of…moreThank you for your question! I write based on personal experience. I take time to unpack an emotion or experience until I discover its inner nugget of universality. I write with this in mind--that loss can arrive in countless ways but on a core, emotional level, there is connection to be found within experiences. There is connection along the path of healing from loss, of finding forgiveness and working toward a deeper happiness. The field of psychology is a science because some aspects of human experience are generalizable. When we combine personal experience with a deeper reflection on the universal connection it presents, the result can be deeply satisfying, profound, and worthy of further meditation. I reflect on these things as part of my own healing journey, and I share them because I know this connection exists. Our visions of where we are traveling might be unique, but we can hold each other's hands along the path, with understanding. I express these thoughts as beautifully as I can, through poetic prose, creative nonfiction, and poetry (short and long forms).(less)

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	Small Stones from the River: Meditations and Micropoems by Kat Lehmann (Goodreads Author), Subhashini Chandramani (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Prose 3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song 4.44 avg rating — 50 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moon Full of Moons: Poetry of Transformation 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rattle #87, Spring 2025 - Tribute to the Haibun by The Rattle Foundation, Timothy Green (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Roberta Beary (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	to wade through the wind as a night 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea Change: An Anthology of Single-Line Poems by Various, Kat Lehmann (Goodreads Author) (editor), Robin Smith (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“when you are unsure which way to go each obstacle is a distraction choose anyway every path needs some clearing”
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“forgiving others is a wonderfully selfish act of liberation even if no one else knows you did it”
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“The greatest gift you can give anyone is a bunch of empty pages.
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An empty page contains all the stories that have never been written.”
― Subhashini Chandramani, The Garden Art Journal

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