Dr. Camille U. Adams is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Camille is the author of the memoir, How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir (August 2025; Restless Books). Camille also narrated the audiobook, whereby the distinct poetic prose can be aurally enjoyed. 

How To Be Unmothered has since been recognised by Electric Literature’s Best of 2025 Nonfiction List and CLMP Most Celebrated of 2025. Camille’s also been invited to several national book fairs and panels to discuss the ground-breaking concept of unmothering. Her manuscript was recognised as a finalist in the Restless Books Prize in New Immigrant Writing 2023. 

Camille earned her MFA in Poetry from City College, CUNY and a Ph.D. in Creative Nonfiction from FSU. She has been awarded Best of The Net - nonfiction 2024, has received five Pushcart Prize nominations and three Best of the Net nominations for her published CNF work in literary magazines.

Her writing 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. 

She has led several craft, generative, and critique writing workshops at various academic and juried writing programmes. Camille has also served as a juried reader for Tin House for two consecutive years and for various writing programmes and contests.

As an editor, Camille has  happily 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 teaches and is hard at work on book two.