Cameron Awkward-Rich

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. Provided by Wikipedia