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Camille Dungy is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program. Her work bridges environmental studies, African American literature, and creative writing. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (1997).
Her research interests include African American nature poetry, environmental justice, and intersections of race, motherhood, and history. She has taught courses like Environmental Literature, African American Literature, and graduate seminars in Docupoetics. Her creative writing explores themes of kinship, community, and ecological awareness.
Her publications include award-winning poetry collections such as Trophic Cascade (2017, Colorado Book Award winner) and Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (2023). She has also edited landmark works like Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009), which redefined national understanding of African American environmental writing.
Awardees of her work include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), NEA fellowships, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship (2021). She serves as poetry editor for Orion magazine and co-hosts the Immaterial podcast with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Her creative and critical output emphasizes interdisciplinary storytelling, combining memoir, environmental advocacy, and racial justice themes across poetry, essays, and anthologies.
