She completed her Masters in English and Hungarian Literature at Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary in 2001 and an Master of Arts with distinction in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2006. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Critical and Creative Writing, also from the UEA which she obtained in July 2011.
She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Sheffield. Lehóczky"s second collection in English, Rememberer, supported by the Arthur Welton Award, was also published by Eggbox in 2011. She represented Hungary at the international poetry festival, Parnassus, at the Southbank Centre in London in 2012 and her profile in the United Kingdom has been recognized in two important Bloodaxe anthologies, The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre"s Parnassus, edited by Neil Astley and Anna Selby (2012), and Dear World & Everyone In lieutenant: New in the United Kingdom, edited by Nathan Hamilton (2013).
Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy,, the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
As part of Sheffield"s Festival of the Mind, Lehóczky co-edited The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined, with Adam Piette, Ann Sansom and Peter Sansom (Smith/Doorstop, 2012).
