“Camille Dungy, a 1991 alum of Iowa City West High School, has collected a number of prestigious titles and awards through her career: University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Academy of American Poets fellow, Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow in prose and poetry, and the American Book Award among them.

The one she received this week was different, though. Not because of the $25,000 prize or the custom M.C. Ginsberg art that comes with it, but because of the full-circle ties it represents to the hometown that built the foundation for her career.”

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