Kat Lehmann

Robin Anna Smith

Co-Founder/Co-Chief Editor
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Co-Founder/Co-Chief Editor
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Kat Lehmann (she/her) is an award-winning haiku poet based in New England. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize (2021) and Best of the Net (2019), Kat’s haiku have been honored in The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards (2020; individual poem), the Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson Haiku Award (2020), and Japan’s Basho-an Award (2020).

Kat is an Associate Editor at Sonic Boom (2022-present), a panelist in The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (2021-present), and a judge in the inaugural Trailblazer Contest (2021).

Read more of Kat's work, including her experimental "sudo-ku" multi-haiku form, on her website.

Social: @SongsOfKat.

Robin Smith (they/them) is an award-winning poet whose work has earned numerous accolades including inclusion in New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku 12 (2021) and The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2019).

They presented at the 2021 Haiku Society of America Conference on "Signature Style: How Identity Informs Voice in Haiku" and were interviewed for The Haiku Foundation's "New to Haiku: Advice to Beginners."

​They serve as the Coordinator for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems.

Links can be found on their website to their small collections of haiku, haibun, and experimental "meandering haiku." Social: @komadorihaiku.