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Alexandra van de Kamp [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
San Antonio, TX
Texas US
Email: 
avandekamppoet@gmail.com
Bio: 

Alexandra van de Kamp teaches at Stony Brook University and lives in Port Jefferson, NY with her husband, the writer William Glenn. She lived for six years in Madrid, Spain and co-founded the bilingual journal, Terra Incognita. Her first full-length book of poems, The Park of Upside-Down Chairs, is forthcoming from WordTech Press in April 2010.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
Spanish
Twitter/X: 
https://twitter.com/alexvandeKamp
Born in: 
Port Chester, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Rye, NY
New York
Website: 
https://www.alexandravandekamppoet.com [2]
Prizes won: 

The 2001 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize (which published the chapbook, "The Rainiest May in the Twentieth Century").

What I'm reading now: 
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Republic of Images: A History of French Film... by Alan Williams
Cheri by Colette
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/alexandra_van_de_kamp

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/alexandra_van_de_kamp [2] https://www.alexandravandekamppoet.com