Category Archives: News
Camille joins Avery Trufelman and Olive Klug for episode 599 of Live Wire!
Listen here.
SOIL is featured by The New York Review!
Read “A New Environmental Canon” here.
Camille joins The Afro Beets Podcast for episode 47!
Listen to “Addressing Trauma and Privilege of the Land” here.
“Camille Dungy on Gardening as a Political Act”: An Interview with Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Read the interview here.
SOIL is featured on “Best-of-2023” Lists by Hudson Booksellers, Booklist, and Library Journal!
See the lists here: Hudson Booksellers, Booklist, and Library Journal
SOIL is included on NPR’s “Books We Love”
See the full 2023 list here.
Read Terrain‘s latest review: “Lessons in Quotidian Honesty: A Review of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden“
“Soil, then, is a book about inclusivity: part memoir, part poetry, part essay, part history, part lessons on race, and part photography. Dungy cites her journal entries, emails, and aspects of her thought process. She redefines what ‘nature’ means by broadening her environment to encompass other writers, her human and nonhuman neighbors, her family, her community, her readers.”
Read the full article here.
Camille is featured on the Native Plants Healthy Planet podcast!
Listen here!
Camille discusses nature and motherhood on the Bird Note podcast!
Listen here!