Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is a Trinidadian-Canadian author and scholar. Her debut novel Perlas will be published by House of Anansi in 2028. Her collection of short stories Suite as Sugarwas published by Rare Machines in 2023. Camille’s earlier work appeared in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (for which she was shortlisted for the Otherwise Award); Mercury Retrograde; and “but where are you really from?” Stories of Identity and Assimilation in Canada. She is a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Shevchenko Foundation. Camille is Faculty Emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she previously headed the Caribbean Studies programme. She divides her time between Trinidad and Toronto.
