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Camille-Dungy

Camille T. Dungy. Courtesy Lunch Ticket.

Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an African-American poet and academic.

Life[]

Dungy was born in Denver, Colorado. She earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.[1]

She lives in San Francisco, and teaches at San Francisco State University.

Her poems have appeared in literary magazines and journals including Antioch Review,[2] Carolina Quarterly,[3] The Missouri Review,[4] The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and Poetry Daily.[5]

Recognition[]

Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Cave Canem, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is a recipient of the Dana Award.[6][7]

Awards[]

  • 2006 Dana Award in Poetry[8]
  • 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[9][10]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

Edited[]

  • Black Nature: Four centuries of African American nature poetry. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
  • Passageways (edited with Daniel Hahn). San Francisco, CA: Two Lines Press, 2012.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[11]

Camille_T._Dungy_reads_"The_Blue"_at_the_California_Historical_Society

Camille T. Dungy reads "The Blue" at the California Historical Society

Audio / video[]

  • Five Cave Canem Poets: The colour of poetry (contributor). San Francisco : San Francisco Public Library, 2008.[11]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]

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