Lauren Camp

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."[6]

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.”[7]

Washington Independent Review of Books says of Took House, “It’s as if Camp is holding a magnifying glass in the light until the page beneath it catches fire,” and World Literature Today, in an "Editor’s Pick", states, “The ‘sinew and lava’ of both desire and loss pulse right beneath the surface of the poems…”

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.[8] Camp was the subject of a long-form interview by David Naimon on Between the Covers. She has read her poems on dementia for the Mayo Clinic and the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. In 2020, she was selected to be one of 100 international artists for 100 Offerings of Peace and one of 101 women storytellers for The Scheherezade Project.

Camp's poems have appeared in Pleiades, Poet Lore, Boston Review,[9] Crazyhorse, Beloit Poetry Journal, Weber and the Poem-a-Day series from The Academy of American Poets.[10] The Rumpus published a long interview with Camp about her book, Took House. Her honors include a fellowship from the Black Earth Institute,[11] and translations of her poems to Turkish,[12] Spanish,[13] Arabic[14] and Mandarin.

• This Business of Wisdom, West End Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9826968-2-8
• The Dailiness, Edwin E. Smith Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-6192755-6-0
• One Hundred Hungers, Tupelo Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-936797-72-1
• Turquoise Door, 3: A Taos Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-9972011-9-2
• Took House, Tupelo Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-946482-32-7

• 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award (Finalist)
• 2017 Arab American Book Award (Finalist)[2]
• 2017 Housatonic Book Award (Finalist)[3]
• 2016 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize (Finalist)[4]
• 2015-2018 Black Earth Institute Fellow[11]
• 2014 The Dorset Prize[1]
• 2014 RL International Poetry Award[15]
• 2014 National Federation of Press Women Poetry Book Prize[16]
• 2012 The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award[17]

External audio
Lauren Camp, The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series

• Official website