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

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, and ''Dispatch'', which won the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award. In addition, he has published the chapbook ''Transit''. Awkward-Rich earned a

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's program in Modern Thought and Literature and teaches women, gender, and sexuality studies at the

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, 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

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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

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, Christopher Soto, Beyza Ozer, Kay Ulanday Barrett).'' Little Rock:

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, 2017.

Chapbooks

''Transit.'' Gardena:

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, 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.

References

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