Cameron C. Carter

Fiction Writer | Educator | Ecocritical Storyteller

Cameron Carter is a fiction writer and educator from Atlanta, Georgia. He holds an MA in English from Ball State University and a MFA from Georgia State University. Currently, he's pursuing an PhD in English from University of Missouri. He received the 2024 Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright College Award and Paul Bowels Fellowship, was a Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Award finalist, and was a nominee for Ball State University’s 2023-2024 Outstanding Creative Project. His fiction is rooted in an ecocritical lens, often delving into the complex and intimate connections between climate change, land, and Black communities in the American South.

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Cameron Carter is a fiction writer and educator from Atlanta, Georgia. He holds an MA in English from Ball State University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia State University. Currently, he is pursing a PhD in Creative Writing from University of Missouri.His fiction explores the intimate and tangled relationships between land, climate, memory, and Black Southern life. With a focus on ecocriticism and community-based love, his work draws from thinkers like bell hooks and Zora Neale Hurston to imagine futures shaped by both resistance and care.Cameron is the recipient of the 2024 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright College Award and the Paul Bowles Fellowship. He was a finalist for the Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Award and was nominated for Ball State University’s Outstanding Creative Project for 2023–2024.Beyond the page, Cameron has taught writing and literature at both the college and middle school level, specializing in courses on African American studies, composition, and creative writing. He believes in the power of stories to unsettle, restore, and reimagine.CurrentlyCameron is working on a chapbook of flash fiction that re imagines Black ecological futures in the American South and a collection of short stories.

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Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Magazine
The Silent StrikeThe Argyle (Forthcoming)
STS-43
The Jumpers
The Water Boys