Camille Carter is an American poet, scholar, and traveler. Her debut collection, Chinook, is forthcoming from Dynamo Verlag (2026), where she was the winner of the 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Contest. Her poem "Thoughts about Inheritance" appears in The Best American Poetry 2025, guest edited by Terence Winch (Simon & Schuster). Her poem "Georgia O'Keeffe, 'From the Faraway, Nearby,' 1937" was selected and read by former US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on The Slowdown podcast (APM Studios) and was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.
Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Raritan, New American Writing, Passages North, North American Review, Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Five Points, Hotel Amerika, New South, Catamaran, Cloudbank, Sugar House Review, SWWIM Every Day, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Hackney Literary Award for National Poetry, a two-time finalist for the RASH Award in Poetry, and a 2024 and 2025 Best of the Net nominee.
She is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and has served as Literary Fellow at the Chautauqua Institution. She researches decolonial aesthetics, feminist philosophy, and cultural production across the Global South. Her scholarly work appears in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
