Kate Camp (born 1972) is a

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poet and author who currently resides in

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Early life and education

Camp was born in 1972 in

, New Zealand. She attended

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. She has a BA in English from the

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Career

Poems by Camp have appeared in the ''Best New Zealand Poems'' series in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2012, and 2013. She has also been published in numerous literary magazines, including ''Landfall'', ''New Zealand Books'', ''

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'', ''Sport'', ''Takahe'', ''

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'' (Germany) and ''Qualm'' (England). Camp hosted a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show ''Saturday Morning'' on

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. Camp currently works at the

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as the head of marketing and communications.

Awards

At the 1999

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Camp's collection, ''Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars'', won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry. In 2011, ''The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls'' won the award for poetry at the

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and was shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award. In 2013, ''Snow White’s Coffin'' was a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards. In 2006 and 2004 she was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.

Residencies and fellowships

Camp was a Writer in Residence at

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in 2002. At the conclusion of the residency, her collection ''On Kissing'' was published by

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. In 2011 she received the

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Berlin Writers’ Residency and in 2016 she received the prestigious

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Selected works

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.'' In 2022 she published the memoir ''You Probably Think This Song Is About You.'' ''

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'' made it their book of the week.

References

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