Join C4 and the Lake County Public Library on Thursday April 30th at FREIGHT for an evening with Colorado author Camille Dungy! Featuring dinner, a reading, Q&A, and book signings.
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade, winner of the Colorado Book Award, and a Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology. Currently, she is the poetry editor for Orion magazine and hosts Immaterial, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise.
A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, her further honours 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. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden is her most recent book.