Cameron Awkward-Rich

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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. [1] [2] 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. [3] Awkward-Rich was a Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Thinking Trans/Trans Thinking Conference, organized by the Trans Philosophy Project.[ citation needed ] 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. [4] He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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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 & 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." [5]

Interviews

Gow, Robin. "Trying to Feel A Part of Some Kind of 'We': A Conversation With Cameron Awkward-Rich." [6]

Marshell, Kyla. "The Pen Ten with Cameron Awkward-Rich." [7]

Scholarly Articles

"The Fiction of Ethnography in Charlotte Perkin Gilman's Herland." Science Fiction Studies, v43 n2 (2016): 331–350.

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References

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  2. Poets, Academy of American. "About Cameron Awkward-Rich | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  3. "Cameron Awkward-Rich". Poetry Foundation. 2021-07-14. Archived from the original on 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  4. "2020 Festival | Biennial Festivals | Programs | Split This Rock". www.splitthisrock.org. Archived from the original on 2021-08-23. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  5. "Craft Capsule: Revising the Archive". Poets & Writers. 2019-12-09. Archived from the original on 2021-08-23. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
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  7. Marshell, Kyla (2017-02-21). "The PEN Ten with Cameron Awkward-Rich". PEN America. Archived from the original on 2021-08-23. Retrieved 2021-08-23.