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.
Camille Dungy
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.
25 Essential Authors: Outside Magazine
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.”
“20 Books That Deserved More Attention in 2017”
Edwidge Danticat says this about Guidebook to Relative Strangers: 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.
Trophic Cascade named among the Best Books of 2017
Thanks to The Brooklyn Rail for including Trophic Cascade in the list of 25 Best Books of Poetry for 2017!.
Camille Dungy wins a 2018 NEA Fellowship!
The Rumpus wants you to read Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Guidebook to Relative Strangersmade two lists at The Rumpus this Fall
What To Read When It’s Been a Hell of a Year (Curated by Claire Vaye Watkins
and
What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother
Thanks for the love, Rumpus crew!
BookRiot names 20 Great Essay Collections for 2017
Guidebook to Relative Strangers joins another wonderful list!
“In every essay, Dungy is incisive and revealing, both of her own experience and of the state of the world as she sees it.”
An interview with Camille T. Dungy
Beth Kephart of Juncture Notes interviews Camille Dungy about writing Guidebook to Relative Strangers.
Read the interview here.