Katie Lehman received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 1999. While at Notre Dame, she was the recipient of the 1998 Billy Maich Academy of American Poets Prize, an award given to a Notre Dame student, graduate or undergraduate, for excellence in poetry. From 2004 to 2010, Lehman was assistant editor at the University of Notre Dame Press and for many years has served as a personal editor for her former teacher, the American poet, translator, and David Jones scholar John Matthias. She is the editor of Matthias's Regrounding a Pilgrimage, a collaboration with John Peck and Robert Archambeau (Dos Madres, 2018).

Books by Katie Lehman:

Other poems on the web by Katie Lehman:
"Emily in Her Conservatory"
Four poems
"Garden Talk"

About Emily Dickinson's Lexicon:

"Katie Lehman's publisher told her he thought her manuscript was 'stunningly wonderful' when he accepted it for publication. My view as well. I have known Katie's work for many years. She has bided her time and produced a formidable book."
—John Matthias

"A keen and informed naturalist whose lushly descriptive and lyric meditations reveal 'the measures that defy time,' Katie Lehman ranges among herbariums, gardens, and farmscapes home and away, building a potent kinship with the larger-than-human world. Lexicon is a dazzling read—a haunted and haunting debut."
—Jane Satterfield

"While the spirit of Emily Dickinson resides throughout this brilliant, richly observed debut, Katie Lehman's own lexicon—vibrant, immersed in history, yet strikingly contemporary—is a force truly to be reckoned with. These are poems of deep feeling and even deeper intelligence, ablaze with unforgettable images of rural Irish life, the pendulum swings of time's long passage, and the memory of loved ones (both human and animal) given lasting form in language of rare delicacy and impact."
—Ned Balbo