Alexandra Van de Kamp

Alexandra van de Kamp was born in Rye, NY and grew up in NY and CT. She received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She recently moved to San Antonio, TX with her husband and is the Creative Writing Classes Program Director for Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary organization based in San Antonio. She has taught in The Writing Program at University of Texas/San Antonio and is also a teaching artist for the online poetry cooperative, The Poetry Barn, where she conducts online intensive poetry workshops. For six years she lived in Madrid Spain, where she co-founded Terra Incognita, a bilingual literary/cultural journal published in Spain and the United States. As for her publications, van de Kamp's first full-length collection of poems, The Park of Upside-Down Chairs, was published by CW Books (WordTech Press 2010), and a second full-length collection of poems, Kiss/Hierarchy, was published by Rain Mountain Press in August 2016. She is the author of several chapbooks of poetry, including the collection, Dear Jean Seberg (2011), which won the Burnside Review Chapbook contest, judged by Matthew Dickman. Her most recent chapbook, A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (2015), was published by Red Glass Books, out of Brooklyn, NY. Her earlier collections include The Photographer's Interview (2006, Premier Poets Chapbook Series: 34); A Living Book (2004), with artwork by Rebecca Aidlin; and The Rainiest May in the Twentieth Century (2002 Wind Magazine), winner of the 2001 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including Meridian, The Denver Quarterly, AMP, 32 Poems, Sentence, Quarter After Eight, River Styx, Rain Taxi, Red Rock Review, Lake Effect, Court Green, Salt Hill, The Connecticut Review, The Cincinnati Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Washington Square, among others. Her translations of two Spanish women poets, Ángela Pérez Ovejero and Marta López-Luaces, were featured in the Canadian magazine Filling Station and in The Literary Review, respectively, and an interview with Billy Collins was reprinted nationally in Imagine Magazine (Johns Hopkins). A recent 2016 interview with the Puerto Rican/NY poet, Urayoan Noel, was featured on The Poetry Foundation blog, Harriet. She is an unapologetic chocoholic and poetry-holic and could watch 1940s film noir all day long, if given the chance.