American poet
Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and academic. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection "Sympathetic Little Monster", a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and "Dispatch", which won the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award. In addition, he has published the chapbook "Transit". Awkward-Rich earned a PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought and Literature and teaches women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Awkward-Rich was a Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Thinking Trans/Trans Thinking Conference, organized by the Trans Philosophy Project. He was also a Featured Poet during the 2020 Split This Rock Poetry Festival, a gathering in Washington, DC, organized biennially around social justice themes. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Publications.
Books.
"The Terrible We: Thinking With Trans Maladjustment." Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022.
"Dispatch: poems." New York: Persea Books, 2019.
"Sympathetic Little Monster." Los Angeles: Richocet Editions, 2016.
"Subject to Change: Trans Poetry &amp; Conversation (with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Christopher Soto, Beyza Ozer, Kay Ulanday Barrett)." Little Rock: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017.
Chapbooks.
"Transit." Gardena: Button Poetry, 2017.
Craft Essays.
"Craft Capsule: Revising the Archive."
Interviews.
Gow, Robin. "Trying to Feel A Part of Some Kind of 'We': A Conversation With Cameron Awkward-Rich."
Marshell, Kyla. "The Pen Ten with Cameron Awkward-Rich."
Scholarly Articles.
"The Fiction of Ethnography in Charlotte Perkin Gilman's Herland." "Science Fiction Studies", v43 n2 (2016): 331–350.
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