About Camille Ferguson

Camille Ferguson is a poet from Ohio, a heart-shaped place on beautiful planet Earth. Camille graduated summa cum laude from Cleveland State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a creative writing focus.

Since graduating from CSU, Camille has spent a lot of her time traveling. She spent a couple summers working in Glacier National Park in Montana, hiking to mountain summits and glaciers and swimming in bone-cold, true-blue lakes, experiences which have greatly informed her creative work. She has spent her time reading, writing, taking macro-photography of mountain wildflowers, and moving her body in awe-inspiring places all over the country.

Camille's recent work is rooted in wonder, curiosity, an exploration of the human experience and the human's place in the natural world. Her poems move easily between this natural world, filled to bursting with awe—blue herons with the patient presence of monks, dung beetles who navigate by the milky way—to the metaphysical plane in contemplations on reality, time and space, and death. A focal point in her poetry is the pure moment, and gratitude for time spent with the world. She believes that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, as Thoreau said, and is interested in liberating the mind from suffering. Her life is guided by a personal, quilt-like coalescence of a variety of philosophies: from a joy-practice to anti-consumerism to frugal hedonism to Tibetan Buddhism, all of which play within her creative work.

Currently, Camille is working on a new body of poems in a style that finally feels her own, and is preparing to apply to graduate school to pursue an MFA degree. She is available for readings in the state of Ohio for the time being.