Kate Camp

Kate Camp
Born 1972 (age 45–46)
Wellington, New Zealand
Language English
Residence Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealander
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 poet and author from New Zealand.

Background

Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington[1] and currently resides in Wellington.[2]

Career

Camp has published several collections of poems including:

  • Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars (1998, Victoria University Press)
  • Realia (2001, Victoria University Press)
  • Beauty Sleep (2005, Victoria University Press)
  • The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (2010, Victoria University Press)
  • Snow White’s Coffin (2013, Victoria University Press)
  • The Internet of Things (2017, Victoria University Press)

In 2002 she published the collection of essays On Kissing.[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).[1][10]

Camp hosts a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National.[11]

Awards

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.[12][13]

In 2011, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls won the award for poetry at the New Zealand Post Book Awards[12] and was shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.[1] In 2013, Snow White’s Coffin was a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards.[1]

In 2006 and 2004 she was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.[14]

Residencies and fellowships

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.[1]

In 2011 she received the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency[15] and in 2016 she became the first recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kate Camp". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Kate Camp". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Camp, Kate (2002). On Kissing. Four Winds Press. ISBN 9780958237505.
  4. ↑ "Best New Zealand Poems 2001". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Best New Zealand Poems 2002". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Best New Zealand Poems 2003". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2010". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2012". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2013". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Kate Camp". The Arts Foundation. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "Kate's Klassics". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  12. 1 2 "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Kate Camp". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  14. ↑ "Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  15. ↑ "Kate Camp awarded Creative New Zealand Writers Residency". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship". The Arts Foundation. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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