University of Mary Washington | Professor and Poet to Read at UMW, March 16

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For Immediate Release: March 14, 2006

PROFESSOR AND POET TO READ AT UMW, MARCH 16

Fredericksburg, Va. – Camille Dungy, associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, will read from her poetry at the University of Mary Washington on Thursday, March 16 at 5 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139. The event is part of Women’s History Month and is open to the public without charge.

Dungy is the author of the forthcoming What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, and she is an assistant editor of The Cave Canem 10 Year Anniversary Reader, both to be released in March. In addition, her poems have been published in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Mid-American Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and on www.fishousepoems.org.

Dungy has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, The American Antiquarian Society, and Cave Canem. She also has been a John Atherton Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference.

Once the Writer-in-Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park, Dungy also has been awarded fellowships and residencies at The Corporation of Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Norton Island/Eastern Frontier Society.

For more information on the reading, contact Helen Housley, assistant professor of theatre, at (540) 654-1983.

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News release prepared by: Amy Jessee