• Now in its 21st year, the DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts hosts events, both in-person and virtually, with a variety of prominent authors throughout the academic year.
  • All DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts events are free and open to the public.
  • Award-winning author Camille Dungy is the Celebration’s featured writer for the month of December 2023.

The DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts is pleased welcome award-winning author Camille Dungy as its featured writer for the month of December 2023.

Dungy will read from her work and participate in a Q&A with audience members at 10 a.m. CT on Tues., Dec. 12, via Zoom, during a virtual event hosted by DMACC. The hour-long event is FREE to attend and open to the public.

Now in its 21st year, the DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts hosts events, both in-person and virtually, with a variety of local, regional and nationally known authors throughout the academic year. All events are free and open to the public.

About the author: Camille Dungy

Camille Dungy is the author of “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden," which was released in Spring 2023, and has written four collections of poetry, most recently “Trophic Cascade," winner of the Colorado Book Award, and a “Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History," which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism.

Dungy's interest in the intersections between literature, environmental action, history, and culture led her to edit “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry," the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention. She also co-edited the “From the Fishouse" poetry anthology and served as assistant editor for “Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade."

Dungy currently serves as the poetry editor for Orion magazine. Her work has appeared in more than 40 anthologies, as well as in dozens of print and online venues in the United States and abroad. You may also know her as the host of Immaterial, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise. Dungy is a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, and her further honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.

Register to attend

To attend the DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts virtual event with Dungy, please register online.

For more information about the DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts, visit cla.dmacc.edu.

Select writings by Camille Dungy:

For more information, contact: Marc Dickinson, (515) 964-6221, madickinson@dmacc.edu