Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy is the author of two collections of poetry,
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (
Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award, and the recently published
Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010). She is assistant editor of
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006), and editor of
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (
University of Georgia Press, 2009), which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for literature. Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Cave Canem, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society.
A graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, her work has appeared in
The Missouri Review,
The Southern Review,
The Crab Orchard Review,
Poetry Daily, and other publications. She lives in San Francisco, Calif., where she serves as an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. A co-founder of From the Fishouse, she is recent past-president of the board of directors, and co-editor of
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (
Persea Books, 2009), edited with Jeffrey Thomson and Matt O'Donnell.
Posted on February 16, 2005 5:21 AM
