Camille T. Dungy is a versatile writer, poet and professor who draws inspiration from her experiences in various regions of the United States and her extensive travels around the world. Camille's exploration of history, landscape, culture, family, and desire resonates throughout her work.

Camille is the author of four collections of poetry, and two novels, Guidebook to Relative Strangers and most recently, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, which recounts Camielle’s seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado.

Camille has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention. She also co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology and has served in several other editorial positions. Currently, she is the poetry editor for Orion magazine. Camille’s work has appeared in over 40 anthologies plus dozens of print and online venues in the U.S. and abroad. She is also the host of Immaterial, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Camille’s further honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.