Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. The recipient of a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, Camp won the Dorset Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book Award, Big Other Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award. She has been a visiting writer among scientists at Lowell Observatory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She has guest edited two special sections in World Literature Today (on international jazz poetry and international poetry about contemporary visual art), a mini-anthology for Malpaís Review (on the poetry of Iraq), and, with cohort fellow Melissa Tuckey, an issue of About Place Journal on “Roots + Resistance.” Her poems appear in Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, New England Review and Beloit Poetry Journal, and have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

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