Dr. Camille U. Adams is the author of How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir (August 2025; Restless Books). How To Be Unmothered is a 2025 Foreword Indies finalist in autobiography and memoir, a 2026 Firecracker Awards finalist in creative nonfiction, a 2023 Restless Books Prize in New Immigrant Writing finalist, an Electric Literature’s Best of 2025 Nonfiction List favourite, and a 2025 CLMP Most Celebrated book choice.

Camille was also selected by Tantor Media to narrate the audiobook, whereby the distinct poetic prose can be aurally enjoyed. Throughout 2025 and 2026, Camille has been invited to join several national book fairs, author  panels, podcasts, and school visits to discuss the ground-breaking concept of unmothering. Camille has been excited to serve as creative nonfiction faculty for the 2026 Abode Writing Retreat, a judge for Flash Frog Literary Magazine’s 2026 Blue Frog Flash Fiction contest, and as a juried reader for McCormack Writing Center. 

Camille earned her MFA in Poetry from City College CUNY and a Ph.D. in Creative Nonfiction from Florida State University. She has been awarded 2024 Best of The Net in nonfiction and has received five Pushcart Prize nominations and three Best of the Net nominations for her writing in literary magazines. Her creative nonfiction has also received recognition as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2022. Among Camille’s awarded fellowships is an inaugural Tin House Reading Fellowship, an inaugural Granta nature writing workshop fellowship, an inaugural Anaphora Arts Italy Writing Retreat Fellowship, a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, a Community of Writers Fellowship, and a Roots Wounds Words Fellowship. Camille has also received support from Kenyon Writers Workshop, VONA, and others. 

As an editor, Camille has  contributed to the literary community as a CNF editor at Variant Lit and as an assistant editor at Split Lip Magazine and at The Account. Camille’s memoir writing is featured in Passages North, Citron Review, XRAY Literary Magazine, Variant Literature, The Forge Literary Magazine, Kweli Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently lives in NYC where she works as English faculty at a prestigious independent school and is hard at work on book two.