Books by Camille
The Hero and the Whore
Of all the things modern people of faith overlook or choose to ignore in the Bible, stories of sexual exploitation are near the top of the list. This isn’t so different from our world today, when victims of trafficking, rape, and harassment are dismissed and disbelieved, their stories twisted and erased. Trauma-informed educator and minister Camille Hernandez dives deep into the Bible’s stories of exploitation and abuse to name the difficult truths buried in Scripture, address the forms such violence takes in modern society, and illuminate a path of healing and hope. With a blend of storytelling, cultural analysis, and trauma-informed care, The Hero and the Whore invites readers to reconsider their assumptions about victims of sexual exploitation and respond with compassionate understanding that will bring us all to the wholeness God desires.
Motherlands
Motherlands is a lyrical meditation on the parallel journeys of motherhood and immigration—each a radical act of love, each a quiet kind of loss. In this collection of poems, the speaker navigates the shifting terrain between daughter and mother, homeland and new land, memory and body. With tenderness and grief, Motherlands explores how the severance of migration echoes the ruptures of childbirth, and how both leave behind a scarred but sacred map.
Drawing from the poet’s experience as a second-generation American, the daughter of an immigrant mother, Aunty, niece, and mother of three children, this chapbook asks: What do we lose when we cross borders—geographic, generational, or otherwise? What do we carry forward? What language do we give our children, and what silence?