Kate Camp

At the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Camp's collection, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.^[13][14]

In 2011, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls won the award for poetry at the New Zealand Post Book Awards^[13] and was shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.^[3] In 2013, Snow White’s Coffin was a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards.^[3]

In 2006 and 2004 she was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.^[15]

Camp was a Writer in Residence at Waikato University in 2002. At the conclusion of the residency, her collection On Kissing was published by Four Winds Press.^[3]

In 2011 she received the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency^[16] and in 2016 she received the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.^[17]

Camp has published several collections of poems including:

• Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars (1998, Victoria University Press)
• Realia (2001, Victoria University Press)
• Beauty Sleep (2005, Victoria University Press)
• The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (2010, Victoria University Press)
• Snow White’s Coffin (2013, Victoria University Press)
• The Internet of Things (2017, Victoria University Press)
• How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (2020, Victoria University Press)
• Makeshift Seasons (2025, Te Herenga Waka University Press)

In 2002 she published the collection of essays On Kissing.^[18]

In 2022 she published the memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You (Te Herenga Waka University Press).^[19] Newsroom made it its book of the week.^[20]

In 2026 she published her 1986 diary, written when she was a teenager. Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary (Te Herenga Waka University Press)^[21]