Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024). A former Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park and a visiting writer at Lowell Observatory, she is the recipient of a Dorset Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute. She has been a finalist for the Arab American Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Big Other Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. www.laurencamp.com
Contributions to Humans & Nature
- “Instructions on the Sky,” a poem in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).Â
