An acclaimed poet with an interest in the intersections between literature, environmental action, history and culture, Camille T. Dungy is the author of the book-length narrative Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. She has written four collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers. She also edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology.  

Dungy is the poetry editor for Orion magazine and a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Her recent honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.