Camille T. Dungy received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Born in Denver, Colorado, she is a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Her collections include Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) and Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 2021, and an American Book Award.
