Camille Acker is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Training School for Negro Girls, published by the Feminist Press in 2018. She grew up in Washington, D.C., USA, and holds a BA in English from Howard University as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. Her writing has received support from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Voices of Our Nations Arts, and Millay Colony for the Arts, among others. She was a fiction co-editor for Dismantle: An Anthology from the VONA/Voices Workshop (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2014). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Electric Literature, LitHub, and many other outlets. She currently lives in Philadelphia, USA.
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