Colorado Author Camille T. Dungy is the author of America, A Love Story. She has also written the memoir Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers, and four other collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade, winner of the Colorado Book Award. Dungy edited 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 served as assistant editor for Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade. 

 

Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry; 100 Best African American Poems; Best American Essays; The 1619 Project; All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis; over 50 other anthologies; plus dozens of venues including the New Yorker; Poetry; Literary Hub; Paris Review; and Poets.org. 

 

Camille 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, Dungy’s honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both prose and poetry.

 

The Earth Day Author Talk will take place on Thursday, April 30th at Freight. Doors will open at 5:30pm with a community dinner followed by the talk at 6:30pm. The event is free and all are welcome.  Stop by the library and pick up a free copy of Camille's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden now, while supplies last. America, A  Love Story will be available coming soon!