Kate Camp
Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington.[1]
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Born | 1972 (age 47–48) 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 |
Early life and education
Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington.[2]
Career
Poems by Camp have appeared in the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2001,[3] 2002,[4] 2003,[5] 2010,[6] 2012,[7] and 2013.[8] 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).[2][9]
Camp hosts a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National.[10] Camp currently works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as the head of marketing and communications. [11] [12]
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.[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.[2] In 2013, Snow White’s Coffin was a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards.[2]
In 2006 and 2004 she was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.[15]
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.[2]
In 2011 she received the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency[16] and in 2016 she became the first recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.[17]
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.[18]
References
- "Kate Camp". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Kate Camp". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Best New Zealand Poems 2001". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Best New Zealand Poems 2002". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Best New Zealand Poems 2003". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2010". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2012". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2013". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Kate Camp". The Arts Foundation. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Kate's Klassics". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- https://thespinoff.co.nz/author/kate-camp/
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/kate-camp-4a106961
- "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Kate Camp". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Kate Camp awarded Creative New Zealand Writers Residency". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship". The Arts Foundation. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- Camp, Kate (2002). On Kissing. Four Winds Press. ISBN 9780958237505.
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