December 7th -- Dungy, Nichols & Roxanne

Camille Dungy is author of Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Open Book Prize, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006). Dungy is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). She is a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. 

Travis Nichols is the author of the poetry collections Iowa (Letter Machine Editions) and See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press), along with the novels Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder and the recent The More You Ignore Me (Coffee House Press). From 2008-2012 he was an editor at the Poetry Foundation. In 2006, he was tour manager for the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour. He now works as a media officer at Greenpeace in Washington D.C.

Tiara Roxanne writes. She obsesses over things like infrastructure and language. She was the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston Award at Naropa University where she teaches and attends graduate school. She was featured in CA Conrad’s Jupiter 88 and has been published in a myriad of hipster poet writer zines throughout Colorado.