Robin Kemp

Robin Kemp is an award-winning poet and doctoral candidate at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Born in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day and active in the city’s gay community during the 80s, she has written for Gambit, New Orleans Magazine, Louisiana Life, The Advocate, Impact, GA Voice, and CNN, among other outlets. Her poems are anthologized in Letters to the World (Red Hen Press), Maple Leaf Rag III (Portals Press), and elsewhere, and have appeared in New Orleans Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Amethyst, Verse Daily, and many other journals. She also has written articles about the late gay poet Turner Cassity, Elizabeth Bishop, New Formalism, Kate Chopin, and William Stafford for various reference encyclopedias, and is a contributor to Lambda Literary’s new blog. Out since high school, Robin founded the first officially-chartered LGBTQ student group at the University of New Orleans, as well as Turner Broadcasting’s TurnOut employee group.