Kathryn Lomer (born 1958, Tasmania) is an Australian writer and poet.
She began her career teaching ESL for many years, including two years in Japan.
Her first novel, The God in the Ink was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001. Her book of poetry, Extraction of Arrows, also published by UQP, was released in September 2003.
She currently resides in Hobart in her native Tasmania with her young son.
The 2003/2004 Anne Elder Award for Extraction of Arrows
The Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards) 2008 for Two Kinds of Silence
She has also won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and the Melbourne Poets' Union (MPU), Josephine Ulrick and ANUTECH poetry prizes. She is a regular contributor to the MPU magazine, Five Bells.
The God in the Ink, 2001
Extraction of Arrows, 2003
The Spare Room, 2005
Two Kinds of Silence, 2007
Camera Obscura, 2008.