Our apologies to Mss Dungy and Ekiss. Techincal problems with the recording equipment prevented a full recording of the event. Only fragments of the reading are avaiable.

Camille Dungy has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Corporation of Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, Cave Canem, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been a Tennessee William's Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Workshop, Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park and was a finalist for the 2002 A Room of Her Own Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. A graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at UNC-Greensboro, Dungy is now Assistant Professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, VA. She has been published in various literary magazines and journals, including recently, The Missouri Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Mid-American Review.

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A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for emerging women writers, Robin Ekiss's poems and prose have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, APR, POETRY, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Black Warrior Review, VQR , and elsewhere. She's received grants, awards, and scholarships from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and residencies from The MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her first book of poems, The Mansion of Happiness, was recently published by the University of Georgia Press VQR Poetry Series.

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