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Biography​

A multi-faceted artist from Chicago, currently living in Atlanta, continues in her quest to create the 'flyest interpretations' of life.

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Her recent exhibit, After The Sun: Exhibit and Performance, included a 35 piece visual art display and live performance of soul, hip hop and poetry. After The Sun is of AfroFuturistic proportions and explores the bio-mechanical possibilities of trans-humanism.

She has performed and presented art workshops at a host of conferences, high schools, and universities-locally and abroad, as part of AquaMoon, the women centered activist-performance duo with veronica.bohanan. Using Hip Hop Feminism as a tool for creating awareness and dialogue on issues that marginalize and affect women of color, the duo co-authored several choreopoems, including Love Does Not Hurt and Aqua Beats and Moon Verses Vol. I. In 2017, camil teamed up with longtime friend, Solomohn Ennis-Klyczek to pen her third choreopoem, When Sisters Sing, for Sistersong.

camil is co-author of Aqua Beats and Moon Verses Vol. I and released her debut, Butta to Fly: a collection of poetry, art and music (2007).  Her next book, Cold Sweat was published in 2013 and her poem, My Dear Hattie, was featured in an anthology of international poets, Poetic Hustles, Vol. 2. 

Her artworks have been featured in the Humboldt Park Art Exhibit in Chicago and the ArtXchange's Shattered Dreams Exhibit. She’s appeared in several short and full-length films, including The Lies We Tell and Secrets We Keep and the hit web series, Between Women. She also writes and produces music for commercials, films and stage productions.