Janet Mary Riemenschneider-Kemp MNZM (born 12 March 1949) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, memoirist and public performer of her work.

Her writing career began in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has continued into the 21st century, with a number of published collections; her poems often focus on personal and intimate subjects.

Her poems also reflect her international travel experiences, including periods spent teaching English as a foreign language.

[3][4] In 1974, while studying at the University of Auckland, she and two other members of the English department collected and published the first cassette series of recorded New Zealand poetry.

Kemp says in her memoir Raiment (2022) that she had written all the poems and submitted them to the publisher by 1972, but that he "stalled on releasing it for some years, as he wasn't certain a book solely by a woman poet would sell".

[1]: 211  Academic Janet Wilson, writing in The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, notes that despite Kemp's prominence as a woman poet at this time, "she has never been an overtly feminist writer"; many of her poems focus on the self and the "illuminations that the challenge to discover intimacy can bring".

[10] In 1977, her poems were included in Private Gardens, an anthology of New Zealand women poets edited by Riemke Ensing; Peter Simpson described Kemp's poetry as standing out for its "erotic directness and delicacy".

[7][12] Once again the only woman, Kemp was described in the programme published by the New Zealand Students' Art Council as "the youngest — and prettiest?

[4] The Other Hemisphere (1992) was described in the New Zealand Review of Books as "very well-travelled writing, crossing continents to base itself in foreign universities, making affectionate allusions to other writers".

[28] Steve Braunias in Newsroom called it "small but perfectly charming", and his review concludes:[26] With its sunny disposition, its bright idealism, and its neatly detailed settings (hippies in the bush in Titirangi, Friday night drinks hosted by Karl Stead at a bar on Constitution Hill), Raiment is a fascinating document of a young life lived in thrall to love and language.In 1979, Kemp was awarded a New Zealand Literary Fund writer's bursary of $4,000.

[4] In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kemp was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.