About

Camara Aaron is an Aries. She is also a Dominican American writer and filmmaker, based in Harlem, New York. She has experience working in various roles in radio/podcasting and film. Across all mediums, she is passionate about developing creative processes that empower all participants and crafting nuanced and audacious coming-of-age stories for and about Black women and girls. 

Her fiction can be found in Torch Literary Arts and the YA horror anthology, THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE, an instant indie bestseller. Her non-fiction work was included in the climate podcast INHERITED, and featured on WBUR’s HERE & NOW. She is currently in post-production on FULLSTOP, a short film she co-wrote and co-directed about a middle school soccer player’s first period. Camara has been invited to speak at the Kweli Color of Children’s Literature Conference and Black Girls Film Camp about her work. 

Camara graduated from Yale University in 2021, magna cum laude with a BA in film & media studies. Her happy places are her local library and anywhere she can watch women’s soccer.