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| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars |
| Notable awards | NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry |
Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington. [1]
Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She attended Onslow College. [2] She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington. [3]
Poems by Camp have appeared in the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2001, [4] 2002, [5] 2003, [6] 2010, [7] 2012, [8] and 2013. [9] She has also been published in numerous literary magazines, including Landfall, New Zealand Books, New Zealand Listener , Sport, Takahe, Brick (Canada), Akzente (Germany) and Qualm (England). [3] [10]
Camp hosted a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National. [11] Camp currently works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as the head of marketing and communications. [12]
At the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Camp's collection, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry. [13] [14]
In 2011, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls won the award for poetry at the New Zealand Post Book Awards [13] and was shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award. [3] In 2013, Snow White’s Coffin was a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards. [3]
In 2006 and 2004 she was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters. [15]
Camp was a Writer in Residence at Waikato University in 2002. At the conclusion of the residency, her collection On Kissing was published by Four Winds Press. [3]
In 2011 she received the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency [16] and in 2016 she received the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. [17]
Camp has published several collections of poems including:
In 2002 she published the collection of essays On Kissing. [18]
In 2022 she published the memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You. [19] Newsroom made it their book of the week. [20]
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