Lauren Camp is the author of five previous books of poetry, including Took House, which won the American Fiction Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and the Southwest Book Design & Production Award. Her book One Hundred Hungers won a Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award and Housatonic Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Massachusetts Review, and Poet Lore; her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. She is a senior fellow for Black Earth Institute and was Astronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park in 2022. She is the Poet Laureate of New Mexico.