Poet Profile

Camille Dungy "author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), Camille T. Dungy has been awarded fellowships and awards from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the American Antiquarian Society. A graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, she lives in San Francisco, CA, where she serves as an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, and other publications. She is Assistant Editor Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006)."

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Ms. Dungy is a supporter of Color of Online. She has donated her poetry collection to our group and we have featured her work here. Check Fertile Ground archive for her poem entitled, "The Ark."