“It’s all personal if you’re alive and trying to walk out into the world. It’s also always political.”
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Camille Dungy
Camille Dungy to read in Athens, GA on January 17
“The Georgia Review’s Fall issue offers a look at the changing nature of environmental writing in the age of the Anthropocene. The Winter issue showcases new works of fiction in a feature titled “Here, There, Then, Now: Stories from Six Worlds.” Both are bound together in a handsome and uniquely designed double issue, which includes new work from nearly 50 writers as well as two full art portfolios…”
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Camille Dungy writes about environmental writing
“If an author chooses not to engage with what we often call the natural world, that very disengagement makes a statement about the author’s relationship with her environment; even indifference to the environment directly affects the world about which a writer might purport to be indifferent. ”
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Check out Camille’s new poem!
When I die, I hope they talk about me
like they talk about the recently dead
president who oversaw the bombing
of countless children. Headlines today recall
his beloved three-year-old girl,
who he apparently hopes to meet
when he gets to heaven. . .
[ Read more at The Rumpus]
Read “Still Life” in The New York Times Magazine!
Rita Dove recently selected Camille Dungy’s poem, “Still Life,” for the August 12th issue of The New York Times Magazine. Read it here.
Dungy nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the poetry and nonfiction categories!
Guidebook to Relative Strangers and Trophic Cascade are included in the list of finalists for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. Winners will be announced in October.
Guidebook to Relative Strangers in Paperback August 8th!
Check out the new paperback edition of Guidebook to Relative Strangers. Accepting pre-orders now!
“Part memoir, part travelogue, part parental guide, this book is a stunningly beautiful love letter from a mother to her daughter to help her daughter embrace the world she lives in, to introduce her to her ancestors, and prepare her for the future.” — Edwidge Danticat, author of The Art of Death
Essay collection a finalist for the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature
Guidebook to Relative Strangers is on of five finalists for the 2018 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature from Jane’s Stories Press Foundation.
Camille Dungy wins a Colorado Book Award!
Both Trophic Cascade and Guidebook to Relative Strangers were selected as finalists in 2018 the Colorado Book Awards. Trophic Cascade went home with the prize on June 2nd.
National Book Critics’ Circle Award Finalist!
Camille Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History has been named a finalist in one of six categories for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.