a. c. howard
a. c. howard (also Cam, also Camille) is a writer, zinemaker, and multi-disiplinary artist. They live on Wabanaki land with their leopard gecko, Nero.
a. c.’s work focuses on queer coming of age, community care, grief, nature, and music. Their most recent big project, A FUTURE, is a speculative fiction short story about trans* community organizing. Their writing has appeared in The Bollard (formerly The Mainer) and Oroboro Vol. 7. They also draw the comic, Croc and Bat.
a.c. grew up in a paper mill town in DownEast Maine. They studied film at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and radio & podcast production at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. They are a 2023 LEF New England Flaherty Fellow, and a recipient of the Springboard Artist Grant from the Maine Arts Commission. Currently, Cam is the program coordinator for the Points North Institute, and a bartender at SPACE.
photo by Kyle Warnock, 2022.
E V E R Y T H I N G
| S U B S C R I B E T O T H E D E A L | subscribe |
| A Future (2022) | more |
| Future Tripping: Speculative Fiction for Community Organizers (2023) | more |
| Glitching Liberation: A Leftist Analysis of The Matrix: Resurrections (2022) | more |
| FWOGS (2022) | more |
| A Zine About Quiche and Car Seat Headrest (2022) | … |
| Croc and Bat #1 (5.2023) | … |
| Croc and Bat #2: Croc Stinks! (7.2023) | … |
| “How it felt when I Came Out of the Closet,” Oroboro Vol. 7, poem | read |
| “Cadaverette Survives their Third Album,” The Mainer, profile | read |
| “Misery Whip is not a real horse,” The Mainer, profile | … |
| “adlt grrrl surpasses their personal best,” The Mainer, profile | read |
| “Forging Unbreakable Bonds: People’s Inclusive Welding empowers workers in South Portland,” The Mainer | read |
| The Anglerfish (2022) | listen |
| Queerly ME (formerly Queers of Greater Portland) profile, Maine Public | listen |
| Yvonne’s Kitchen, documentary short (2019) | watch |
| The Bold Coast, fiction short (2019) | watch |
| Communists in the Summer House (2017) | watch |
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