She has recently created a course called the Poetry of Witness, which explores twentieth-century political poetry, poetry of extremity and survival, doubt and faith.  She also has taught Women Writers and Reading Literature, and she is developing additional seminars in American Women Poets, Poets of Holocaust and Post-WWII Eastern Europe, and Contemporary Arab and Israeli poetry. She lives with her husband William Siems and their Scottish Terrier, Maude.

Lamon's poems have appeared in journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Feminist Studies, Primavera, Poetry Northwest, and Northwest Review. 

In 2007, Poet Laureate Donald Hall selected Lamon to receive a Witter Bynner Fellowship. The $10,000 fellowship is provided by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry in conjunction with the Library of Congress, where Lamon gave a reading and accepted the fellowship in March 2007. Lamon was nominated for a PEN award in Jan. 2007.

Edited an anthology, The Waiting Room Reader, which includes her poem, "Praise" (CavanKerry Press 2009). Her second collection of poetry, Without Wings, was published by CavanKerry in July 2009. Her first collection of poems, The Fork Without Hunger, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2005. Lamon's poem "Pain Tries to Think of Something" is included in Poetry Daily Essentials 2007; her work has been included on the Poetry Daily website and is included in the anthology 180 More, edited by Billy Collins (2005).

Lamon received an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in 2005, and a Graves Award in the Humanities in 2002, which allowed her a paid release from teaching to conduct research for her Poetry of Witness course. Lamon was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2001 for her poem "Pain Thinks of the Beautiful Table," which appeared in the Pushcart Prize 2002 anthology.