Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including the New England Review, Poetry International, Slice, the Boston Review, Third Coast, World Literature Today, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. Her literary honors include the Dorset Prize, an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award, a Black Earth Institute Fellowship, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.