Camille U. Adams

Camille U. Adams is a Trinidadian memoirist and poet who holds an MFA in Poetry from CUNY and a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from Florida State University. Her memoir How To Be Unmothered was published by Restless Books in August 2025. She has contributed creative nonfiction to The Citron Review, including a piece in its 2022 Fall issue. Adams has received recognition including a 2024 Best of the Net award in nonfiction, five Pushcart Prize nominations, and a notable essay mention in Best American Essays 2022. She has held several fellowships, including inaugural Tin House and Granta fellowships. She teaches English at an independent school in New York and works on a second book.