• Source: Camille Dungy

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




Career


Born in Denver, Colorado, Dungy graduated from Stanford University (BA) and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA.
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) and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) – as well as a recent collection of essays entitled Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W.W. Norton, 2017). Dungy is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). 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 (2011–2013), 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


2024: Paul Engle Prize
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




Published works


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.




References






External links



Official website
"Camille T. Dungy", Kenyon Review interview
Audio Reading: Camille Dungy Reading, From the Fishouse
Interview with Dungy on Words 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 from the original on 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
Black Nature: Poems Of Promise And Survival - audio report by NPR
Appearances on C-SPAN

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Camille Dungy
• Dungy
• Community of Writers
• Poetry Foundation
• List of University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
• Red Hen Press
• List of poets
• American Book Awards
• List of female poets
• Feminist poetry