Kate Camp

Poet and essayist Kate Camp was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington. She is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2011 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency and the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. She is the author of seven previous collections of poems, including The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (2020), and a collection of autobiographical essays, You Probably Think This Song Is About You (2022). Her new work is Makeshift Seasons, a poetry collection published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2025.

Find Kate’s books at UBS – University Bookshop Canterbury.

Image: Ebony Lamb