Camille T. Dungy

Camille T. Dungy is the author of the book-length narrative Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. She has also written four collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.