Camille T. Dungy

Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade. Her debut essay collection is Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Her honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and a fellowship from the NEA. A professor at Colorado State University, Dungy lives with her family in northern Colorado.