About me
An entering 2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Courtney Kampa's first book "Our Lady of Not Asking Why" was selected by Mary Szybist for New Issues Press 2016 First Book Award. She is from Virginia and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her work has received awards and distinctions from Best New Poets, The Atlantic, Poets and Writers Magazine, Ruth Lilly, Columbia University's David Craig Austin Memorial Prize for Most Outstanding Thesis, Rattle, North American Review, and elsewhere.