Camille T. Dungy

Bio

Camille T. Dungy was born and raised in the western United States (Colorado and California), though she has lived briefly in most other regions of the U.S. and has spent time on all but one continent and several countries. Dungy attributes some of the energy in her writing to both her delight in going new places and meeting new people and the good fortune of having a beautiful place to root down and call home. In much of her writing, Dungy considers history, landscape, culture, family, and desire. Dungy’s interest in the intersections between literature, environmental action, history, and culture led her to edit Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press: 2009), the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention.

Reading Materials

Poems:

• Characteristics of Life by Camille T. Dungy

• Naming What Has Risen by Camille T. Dungy

• Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy

Books:

• Soil by Camille T. Dungy