About

Camara Aaron is an Aries. She is also a Dominican-American writer and filmmaker, with 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. Her debut fiction short FULLSTOP was a selection of national and international film festivals and her horror script, Dou-dou, was a 2025 Killer Shorts Top 10 Finalist. 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.