Camille Dungy
Dungy at the 2018 U.S.National Book Festival
Born	Camille T. Dungy 1972 (age 52–53) Denver, Colorado, US
Occupation	Poet and academic
Education	Stanford University;University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Genre	Poetry
Website
camilledungy.com

Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an Americanpoet and professor.

Born inDenver, Colorado, Dungy graduated fromStanford University (BA) and theUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA.^[1]

She is the author of four poetry collections –Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2016),Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011),Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) andWhat to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) – as well as a recent collection of essays entitledGuidebook to Relative Strangers (W.W. Norton, 2017). Dungy is editor ofBlack Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-editor ofFrom the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor ofGathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006).^[2] Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, includingThe American Poetry Review,Poetry,Callaloo,The Missouri Review,^[3]Crab Orchard Review,Poetry Daily. She is also a contributor toMargaret Busby's 2019 anthologyNew Daughters of Africa.^[4]

Dungy's honors include fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts, theVirginia Commission for the Arts, and theBread Loaf Writers' Conference,Cave Canem, theAmerican Antiquarian Society, and theSewanee Writers' Conference, and she is the recipient of the 2011American Book Award, a 2010California Book Award silver medal, a two-time recipient of the Northern California Book Award, and a two-timeNAACP Image Award nominee.^[5][6] Recently a professor in the Creative Department atSan Francisco State University (2011–2013), she is currently a professor in the English Department atColorado State University.^[7] In 2019, Dungy was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship for her poetry.^[8][9]

• 2024: Paul Engle Prize^[10]
• 2019: Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2013: Sustainable Arts Foundations Promise Award
• 2011: American Book Award
• 2011: California Book Award Silver Medal
• 2011: Northern California Book Award
• 2010: Crab Orchard Open Poetry Series
• 2010: Northern California Book Award
• 2007: Dana Award in Poetry
• 2003: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Full-length poetry collections

• Trophic Cascade,Wesleyan University Press, 2016
• Smith Blue,Southern Illinois University Press, 2011
• Suck on the Marrow,Red Hen Press, 2010
• What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, Red Hen Press, 2006

Non-Fiction

• Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden,Simon & Schuster, 2023
• Guidebook to Relative Strangers,W.W. Norton, 2017

Editor

• Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2009
• Toi Derricotte; Cornelius Eady; Camille T. Dungy, eds. (2006).Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. University of Michigan Press, 2006.ISBN 978-0-472-06924-8.Camille Dungy.
• Camille T. Dungy; Matt O'Donnell; Jeffrey Thomson, eds. (2009).From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Persea Books.ISBN 978-0-89255-348-8.

Anthologies

• Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan (eds.),Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018
• Melissa Tuckey (ed.),Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018
• Charles Rowell (ed.),Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, New York: W. W. Norton, 2013
• Anne Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street (eds),The Ecopoetry Anthology, Trinity University Press, 2013.ISBN 978-1595341464
• Joshua Corey and G. C. Waldrep (eds),The Arcadia Project, Ahsahta Press, 2012
• New California Writing. Heyday Books, 2012
• Emily Rosko and Anton VanderZee (eds),A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. The University of Iowa Press, 2011
• Alison Deming and Lauret Savoy (eds),The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2011
• Nikki Giovanni (ed.),The 100 Best African American Poems. Sourcebooks: 2010
• Julie Greicius and Elissa Bassist (eds),Rumpus Women, Vol. I, The Rumpus Book Club, 2010
• The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed. San Francisco, CA: Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010
• Nikky Finney, ed. (2007)."Dinah in the Box".The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. University of Georgia Press, 2007.ISBN 978-0-8203-2926-0.
• Gerry LaFemina; Chad Prevost, eds. (2006).Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality. Bottom Dog Press, 2006.ISBN 978-1-933964-01-0.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toCamille T. Dungy.

• Official website
• "Camille T. Dungy",Kenyon Review interview
• Audio Reading: Camille Dungy Reading,From the Fishouse
• Interview with Dungy onWords on a Wire
• Poems:"Her mother sings warning of the new world; The Development of the Scientific Mind; The New Hand on the Place Sets His Sights on Molly; Dinah in the Bedroom; Conditions of the Sale".Torch. Fall 2007. Archived fromthe original on 2009-06-10. Retrieved2009-07-22.
• Black Nature: Poems Of Promise And Survival - audio report byNPR
• Appearances onC-SPAN

• 1972 births
• Living people
• Stanford University alumni
• San Francisco State University faculty
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
• Writers from San Francisco
• American women poets
• American Book Award winners
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century African-American writers
• African-American women writers
• Writers from Denver

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