A Black Mother's Garden and African American Environmental Writing

Topic: A Black Mother's Garden and African American Environmental Writing

Camille T. Dungy is the author of the award-winning book-length narrative Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. She has also written five collections of poetry, most recently America, A Love Story, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and she co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s honors include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, an Honorary Doctorate from SUNY ESF, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.