We’re closing out the year on December 14th for a holiday-season Sunday Salon with Camille U. Adams, Wah-Ming Chang, Quincy Scott Jones, and Jennifer Sears. These fierce and full-of-heart writers will share memoir, poetry, and short stories that crack open questions of home, identity, and the worlds we’re born into and create. Join us! The night’s soundtrack comes courtesy of DJ DubSix. At 5pm, Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
Dr. Camille U. Adams is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Camille is the author of the memoir, How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir, released August 2025 with Restless Books. Her manuscript was recognized as a finalist in the Restless Books Prize in New Immigrant Writing 2023. Camille earned her MFA in Poetry from City College, CUNY and a Ph.D. in Creative Nonfiction from FSU. She has been awarded Best of The Net – nonfiction 2024, and has received five Pushcart Prize nominations, three Best of the Net nominations, and recognition for a notable essay in Best American Essays 2022. Among Camille’s awarded fellowships is an inaugural Tin House Reading Fellowship, an inaugural Granta nature writing workshop fellowship, an inaugural Anaphora Arts Italy Writing Retreat Fellowship, a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, a Community of Writers Erica Ellner Memorial Scholarship, and a Roots Wounds Words Fellowship. Additionally, Camille is a Tin House alum and has received support from Kenyon Writers Workshop, VONA, and others. She has served as a juried reader for Tin House for two consecutive years, as a CNF editor at Variant Lit, and as an assistant editor at Split Lip Magazine and at The Account. Camille currently lives in Brooklyn where she teaches and is hard at work on book two.
Wah-Ming Chang is a writer and bookmaker whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Joyland, and Epiphany Magazine, among other publications, and has received support from such organizations as Ucross Foundation, Art Omi, the Saltonstall Foundation, and three times from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hand, Held, her artist’s book about her father’s art practice, is forthcoming from Bored Wolves in 2026.
Quincy Scott Jones is the author of two books of poetry – The T-Bone Series (Whirlwind Press, 2009) & How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children (C&R Press, 2021) – and the script-writer for the forthcoming graphic novel Light Bright by Steve Majors with art by Kameron White (Graphic Mundi 2026). He is a Cave Canem fellow, a VONA alum, and once made $200 working as a supermarket clown. With Nina Sharma he co-curates Blackshop, a column that thinks about allyship between BIPOC artists. His own graphic narrative, >BlackNerd<, is in the works.
Jennifer Sears is the author of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, published by the University of Iowa Press in November 2025. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation of the Arts. Her stories and essays have been cited in Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is an associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology where she co-coordinates the Minor in Creative Writing.