The Works of Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
Portfolio of Work
From my latest project to my earliest musings - a sample of my work over time and spanning genres.
Suite as Sugar
Rare Machines/Dundurn Press 2023
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate. The casual brutality of our everyday lives, whether seen through the eyes of a dog or a human, is one of the central threads that ties this collection together.
About Camille
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, and transnational writer/scholar. She writes from the perspective of multiplicity and complexity, not a one-size-fits-all nor a “check the box”, exploring themes such as the search for belonging; the collective violences of neocolonialism, poverty and racism/sexism; chaos; injustice; speciesism; and toxic masculinities. The veil between the corporeal and the incorporeal is very thin in her world. She was shortlisted for the Otherwise Award for science fiction or fantasy (formerly known as the James Tiptree, Jr. Award) for “Soma” (in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction). In addition, Camille has been published in anthologies such as Mercury Retrograde; “…but where are you really from?”; Miscegenation Blues, and Pens of Many Colours 2nd Edition. Her first collection of short stories Suite as Sugar is set to be released by Dundurn Press May 2023. Camille currently divides her time between Toronto and Trinidad & Tobago.