Camille T.
Dungy is the author
of four collections of poetry: Trophic Cascade (2017), Smith
Blue (2011), Suck on the Marrow (2010) and What
to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (2006). Her debut
collection of personal essays is called Guidebook to Relative Strangers (2017).
Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature
Poetry (2009); co-edited
the From the Fishouse poetry anthology (2009); and served as
associate editor for Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave
Canem’s First Decade (2006).
Dungy is currently
a professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. Camille T. Dungy’s
honors include an American
Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, two NAACP Image Award
nominations and a California Book Award silver medal. She is the recipient of
fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The
Sustainable Arts Foundation, The Diane Middlebrook Residency Fellowship of the
Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and other organizations. Her poems and essays
have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, nearly thirty other anthologies, and more than 100
print and online journals.