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Kate Camp

Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who resides in Wellington.

Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She attended Onslow College. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington.

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, New Zealand Listener, Sport, Takahe, Brick (Canada), Akzente (Germany) and Qualm (England).

Camp hosted a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National. Camp currently works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as the head of marketing and communications.

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.

In 2011, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls won the award for poetry at the New Zealand Post Book Awards 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.

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.

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