Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp is an American poet. Her most recent book, "Took House", was awarded the 2021 American Fiction Award in Poetry. "One Hundred Hungers" (Tupelo Press, 2016) was selected by David Wojahn for the Dorset Prize, 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 (and personal) 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.” "Electric Literature", in acknowledging "One Hundred Hungers" for "7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women," wrote "Camp is a master of the luscious line... It is one of the most sensuous books you’ll ever read and characteristic of the gorgeousness of her work." "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 is the subject of an episode of Grace Cavalieri's "The Poet and the Poem" for The Library of Congress and a long-form interview by David Naimon on Between the Covers. She has presented her poems at the Mayo Clinic, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the International Studies Institute. Camp is an inaugural Land Line Resident with Denver Botanic Gardens. She was a juror for the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and was selected to be one of 100 international artists for 100 Offerings of Peace . Camp's writing has appeared in "Kenyon Review," "Pleiades, Poet Lore, Waxwing, Boston Review", "Crazyhorse, Beloit Poetry Journal, Weber" and the "Poem-a-Day" series from The Academy of American Poets. "The Rumpus" published a long interview with Camp about her book, "Took House". Her honors include a fellowship from the Black Earth Institute, and translations of her poems to Turkish, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin.