A Very Special Episode | Meet Author Camille Acker
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If you're a fan of Black sitcoms, this story will feel like stepping into the familiar worlds of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Living Single, Family Matters, and A Different World—only to realize that something isn’t quite right. Camille brilliantly uses that sense of familiarity to explore respectability politics, family legacy, and the tension between ambition and service—all while inviting readers to reflect on how nostalgia shapes not only the way we see the present, but the futures we imagine.
ABOUT Camille Acker
Camille Acker is a writer, educator, and editor.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection , published by The Feminist Press. Her satirical novel, , will be published in August 2026 by Random House.
She grew up in Washington, D.C. and holds a B.A. in English from Howard University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. Her writing has received support from Tin House, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA), the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and Callaloo Writers Workshop.
As a creative writing teacher, she has advised and mentored students across the United States, including at Temple University, New Mexico State University, Tin House Writers Workshop, Chicago Writers Studio, Haverford College, University of the Arts, and Blue Stoop in Philadelphia. She co-edited . She is also the Reviews and Features Editor for the film and visual culture journal , a BlackStar Project.
In 2020, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and in 2022 was named a Fellow by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Electric Literature, as an Audible Original, and is in the anthology On Girlhood: 15 Stories From the Well-Read Black Girl Library. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her partner.
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