Roger Camp is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree from the University of Texas, Austin. He also holds a masters and master’s of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa in photography.
He started teaching English at Eastern Illinois University followed by a dual teaching position in English/Photography at the Columbus College of Art & Design. Camp taught American students at the Cite Universitaire de Paris and directed the photography program at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Camp served as a book reviewer for Library Journal and a contract photographer for Black Star, New York.
Camp was a Danforth Fellow in Black Studies, a Visual Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, held a summer seminar Fulbright to Brazil and is the recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence in documentary photography.
Poems Published, Selected
2River Review, Atlanta Review, Barely South Review, California Journal of Poetics, Camas, Cottonwood, decomP,Evansville Review, Folio Literary Journal, Gargoyle Magazine, Gold Man Review, Grey Sparrow Review, Gulf Stream,Harpur Palate, Hiram Poetry Review, inScribe:A Journal of Creative Writing, JMWW, Lily Poetry Review, Lumina,National Poetry Review, Natural Bridge, New World Writing, Nimrod, North American Review, One, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry East, Prole, Rust+Moth, Shooter Literary Magazine, Slant:A Journal of Poetry, Soundings East Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, Spillway, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Evansville Review, The Louisville Review, The Midwest Quarterly,The North American Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, The South Carolina Review and Tiny Seed Literary Journal
