Camille T. Dungy is the author of the award-winning book-length narrative Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. She has also written collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s honors include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, an Honorary Doctorate from SUNY ESF, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.
Contributions to Humans & Nature
- “In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a Black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence,” a poem in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).Â
- “Let Me,” a poem in Elementals: Fire, Vol. 4 (Humans & Nature Press, 2024).
