Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry as well as the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book of poetry, Trophic Cascade, won a Colorado Book Award and is a 2018 nominee for a Legacy Award. She has edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Her honors include NEA fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and two NAACP Image Award nominations. Her poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, and more than 30 other anthologies. She is a professor at Colorado State University.
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