Lauren Camp


Lauren Camp is an American poet. Her third book, One Hundred Hungers, was selected for Tupelo Press's Dorset Prize, by David Wojahn, and went on to win finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. In reviewing the book, World Literature Today describes "the oddity of diaspora within diaspora through evocative imagery and diction…and direct interrogation of political drama.”

Work

According to Jacqueline Kolosov, "One of Camp’s gifts is her ability to conjure both the historical and the mythic past and the joint terrain they inhabit, with a vividness that, at its best, captures moments infused with both sorrow and joy."
Writing in Poet Lore, Margaret Randall said, "Camp pulls together and makes full sense of the questions that have nudged and troubled her…the places claimed by remembering and forgetting, the ways in which gender inhabits time and place, the identity she holds…"
Publishers Weekly says of Camp's work, “There are smaller surprises that intertwine with this larger narrative… the ideas of loss and forgetting become more evident with each poem.”
She was selected to be a juror for the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and was the subject of an episode of Grace Cavalieri's The Poet and the Poem for The Library of Congress. She has read her poems on dementia for the Mayo Clinic and the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities.
Camp's poems have appeared in Pleiades, Poet Lore, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Weber and the Poem-a-Day series from The Academy of American Poets. Her honors include a fellowship from the Black Earth Institute, and translations of her poems to Turkish, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin.

Books