Camille Dungy


Camille T. Dungy is an American poet and professor.

Career

Born in Denver, Colorado, Dungy graduated from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA.
She is the author of four poetry collections – Trophic Cascade, Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison – as well as a recent collection of essays entitled Guidebook to Relative Strangers. Dungy is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Callaloo, The Missouri Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily. She is also a contributor to Margaret Busby's 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa.
Dungy's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Cave Canem, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and she is the recipient of the 2011 American Book Award, a 2010 California Book Award silver medal, a two-time recipient of the Northern California Book Award, and a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee. Recently a professor in the Creative Department at San Francisco State University, she is currently a professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. In 2019, Dungy was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry.

Awards

Published works

Full-length poetry collectionsTrophic Cascade, Wesleyan University Press, 2016Smith Blue, Southern Illinois University Press, 2011Suck on the Marrow, Red Hen Press, 2010What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, Red Hen Press, 2006
Non-FictionSoil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Simon & Schuster, 2023Guidebook to Relative Strangers, W.W. Norton, 2017
EditorBlack Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2009
Anthologies
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