Books

• The Beheading Game (Novel, forthcoming March 2026, Crown Publishing), a speculative historical fiction ghost story about Anne Boleyn
  
  “Magic, romance, revenge, and an utterly irresistible heroine—this book is an instant classic.”––Lev Grossman, author of The Bright Sword

   “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn. I loved it.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

• The Sweating Sickness (Poetry Collection, 2025, University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Ringer (Poetry Collection, 2019, University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Between the Crackups (Poetry Collection, 2011, Salt Modern Poets)

Poetry

•  “Calamity/Catastrophe/Apostrophe/Goodbye” (1-7), Prairie Schooner, forthcoming.
• “Eclipse,” American Poetry Review, Vol. 54, No. 4., July/August 2025.
• “Flowers with Anne Boleyn,” The Missouri Review, online feature, Fall 2024.
• “Two Lovers,” “Bog Body,” The Southern Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, Summer 2024.
• “A Dozen Daughters,” “The Red Planet,” New England Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, Summer 2024.
• “A Dozen Sons,” “Your Last Autumn,” Poetry Northwest, Vol. 19, Issue 1, Summer 2024.
• “Exit,” The Cincinnati Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2024.
• “When the Wind Blows,” Poet Lore, Vol. 118, No. 3, Summer 2024.
• “Blue,” Cherry Tree, Issue Ten, Spring 2024.
• “Leda,” Seneca Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, Fall 2023.
• “Train Villanelle,” “Skeleton Key Villanelle,” Bennington Review, Issue 12, Summer 2023.
• “Elegy with Land Bridge,” The Threepenny Review, Issue 174, Summer 2023.
• “The Underworld,” Juked Magazine, July 2023.
• “Orchid,” American Poetry Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, March/April 2023.
• “Paper Skeleton Villanelle,” “Unmoored Villanelle,” Copper Nickel, Issue 36, Spring 2023.
• “In Morning,” “Get Lost Serenade,” Massachusetts Review, Vol. 63, Issue 3, Fall 2022.
• “The End,” Plume, Issue #132, August 2022.
• “A River,” Zone 3, Vol. 37, No. 1, Summer 2022.
• “Mule,” Pleiades, Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 2022.
• “The Moons of Pluto,” Northwest Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, Spring 2022.
• “Salt Marsh Moth,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol. 71, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2021.
• “Specter,” “Chariot,” “Predictive Models,” “Night Elegy,” “The Sweating Sickness,” “Inquisition,” The Missouri Review, Vol. 44, No. 3., Fall 2021.
• “Struck,” “Nike, Medusa, Jocasta, Split,” Waxwing, Issue 25, Fall 2021.
• “Nothing,” Harvard Review Online, September, 2021.
• “Hallelujah,” Pembroke Magazine, Issue 53, Summer 2021.
• “Cabin,” Nimrod International Journal, Vol. 64, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2021.
• “Ablation,” The Kenyon Review, Vol. XLIII, Number 3, May/June 2021.
• “Revision with Playground and Seizure,” “Pastoral,” Prairie Schooner, Vol. 95, No. 1, Spring 2021.
• “Ok, Kids,” “Dawn,” “Moses,” Miracle Monocle, Issue 15, November, 2020.
• “Hypatia of Alexandria,” New York Public Library’s Poem in Your Pocket program, April 2020.
• “Today,” “Snow Poem,” Southwest Review, Vol. 103, No. 1, 2018.
• “Lepidoptera,” The Courtland Review, Issue 81, November 2018.
• “Ice Storm,” “What I Can Offer,” JuxtaProse, Vol. 18, Fall 2018.
• “My Life as a Fig Tree,” “No Name,” Long Long Journal, Issue 1, Summer 2018.
• “Floodplain,” “Fever,” “Elegy for Almost,” Miracle Monocle, Issue 10, Spring 2018.
• “Epithalamion,” The Georgia Review, Vol. 71, Issue 4, Winter 2017.

Scholarly Work (Anthologized, Reprinted) 

• Train Villanelle,” “Skeleton Key Villanelle,” (poems) Verse Daily, 2024.
• “Good Friday” (poem), A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing, Indiana University Press, 2023.
• “Paper Skeleton Villanelle” (poem), Verse Daily, 2023.
• “Don’t Come Around Here No More” (creative nonfiction), Longreads, June 2019.
• “Time Traveler” (poem), Verse Daily, 2014.
• “The Factory, An Elegy in Six Parts” (poem), Best New Poets, Samovar Press/Meridian, 2010.

Featured In 

• Ms. Magazine, "Best Poetry of 2024/2025", April 2025
• The New York Times Book Review, "Newly Published/Poetry", February 2025.
• The American Poetry Review, selected poems from The Sweating Sickness
• Threepenny Review, selected poems from The Sweating Sickness
• The Kenyon Review, selected poems from The Sweating Sickness
• Verse Daily, "Train Villanelle"
• Verse Daily, "Skeleton Key Villanelle"
• Verse Daily, "Paper Skeleton Villanelle"
• Publishers Weekly, Ringer: "Part eco-poetic, part confessional, the second book from Lehmann transports the reader to landscapes internal and external with acerbic wit and renegade fury."
• Barbara Hoffert of the Library Journal, Ringer: “Highly recommended; Lehmann’s talent for engaging outwardly will win her readers among poetry fans and newbies alike.”
• Must-Read Poetry: September, 2019, Nick Ripatrazone of The Millions, Ringer: “Ringer teems with excellent poems…Lehmann, generously and gracefully, swings us through entire lives.”
• “Elegy for Almost,” from Ringer, featured on The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith on NPR, October 2019.

Awards 

• The Sweating Sickness, Submitted by University of Pittsburgh Press for consideration for 2026 Pulitzer Prize
• Ringer, Winner of the 2018 Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
• Ringer, Finalist for 2020 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry
• Between the Crackups, Winner of the Crashaw Prize
• Nominated for Best American Science and Nature Writing
• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2019.