Earth Day Author Talk with Camille Dungy at FREIGHT
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 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. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden is her most recent book.
