“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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Rita Dove recently selected Camille Dungy’s poem, “Still Life,” for the August 12th issue of The New York Times Magazine. Read it here.

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

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.

Outside Magazine includes Camille Dungy in the article “Women Writing About the Wild: 25 Essential Authors.” “The following list is in no way definitive, but if you want a primer on some of the best nature writing you probably haven’t read yet, you’d do well to start with these 25 women.”