Alexandra van de Kamp was born in Rye, New York on April 23, 1965.  She
received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing
from the University of Washington.

She lived in Madrid, Spain for six years, where she co-founded Terra Incognita, a
bilingual literary/cultural journal published in Spain and the United States.

Biography

Her poetry has been published in
numerous journals nationwide and, in
2001, she won the Quentin R. Howard
Poetry Prize from Wind Magazine for her
chapbook, The Rainiest May in the
Twentieth Century.  Her full-length
manuscript, The Atmosphere of Objects,
was a finalist for the Fifth Annual Tupelo
Press Award for a first book of poetry and
the 2006 Richard Snyder Award from the
Ashland Poetry Press.

She currently lives in Port Jefferson, New
York, with her husband William Glenn.