Cameron Awkward-Rich was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Celebrating Cave Canem Conversation at the Arts Research Center on October 20, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Cameron Awkward-Rich is a black, trans writer & educator, currently living in Northampton, MA. His first collection of poetry, Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, Dispatch, was the winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice award & was published by Persea Books in December, 2019. Cam’s writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, Transgender Studies Quarterly, & elsewhere. His work, both critical & creative, has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, ACLS, & Duke University. Presently, he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches courses in trans studies, queer/feminist theory, & writing.