Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is a multiracial author, editor and scholar. Her debut collection of short stories Suite as Sugarwas published by Rare Machines/Dundurn Press in 2023. Her earlier work appeared in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (Invisible Cities Press, 2000), Mercury Retrograde (Sister Vision Press, 1999), and “but where are you really from?” Stories of Identity and Assimilation in Canada (Sister Vision Press, 1997), among others. She has been shortlisted for the Otherwise Award andreceived numerous literary grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Shevchenko Foundation for her two upcoming novels.
Camille is Professor Emerita (Associate) at Toronto Metropolitan University, where for over twenty years she engaged in teaching, writing, research and activism concerning anti-racism and Caribbean Studies in Canada. She left academia in 2022 to write full-time. A dual citizen of Canada and Trinidad & Tobago, she divides her time between each country.
