Camille Caprioglio

I was born and raised in Torrance, California, one of the sprawling suburban cities that make up the South Bay area of Los Angeles. In 1985, I escaped to the radical urban sanctuary of the University of California Berkeley. After a year abroad in Cork, Ireland, I developed an interest in the Irish language revival movement. In 1991, I moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland to do research and pursue a PhD at Queens University. I later lived in London and then Winchester, finally settling in Bristol in 2007. Back in the 1990s and noughties, before I had children, I was a university lecturer and researcher in Social Anthropology. More recently, I trained as a psychotherapist and worked as a child counsellor at schools in economically deprived neighbourhoods in Bristol. I’ve published several academic works on ethnicity, nationalism, and the Irish language revival in Northern Ireland. These include a book and two edited volumes of collected essays, all published by Macmillan. I’ve also published an academic article on backpacker tourism. An article on my experience of writing while having Long Covid was published in Mslexia magazine, Issue Number 88.