About

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is an author, scholar, and independent consultant. Her debut collection of short stories Suite as Sugar was 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).

Camille is Associate Professor Emerita 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 is currently working on a book about the failures of anti-racism initiatives in Canadian universities, as well as a novel of historical fiction and magical realism spanning multiple continents and eras. Camille divides her time between Toronto and Trinidad where she and her husband run a small dog rescue.