Courtney Kampa

Courtney Kampa was born and raised in Virginia. She earned a BA at the University of Virginia and an MFA from Columbia University. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, her debut collection, Our Lady of Not Asking Why (2017) was selected by Mary Szybist for the New Issues Press First Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Triquarterly,and Best New Poets, among other publications. She was awarded the 2014 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.