Cameron Awkward-Rich Explained

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. 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.

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cameron Awkward-Rich wins 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Chocie Award! Modern Thought & Literature. 2021-08-23. mtl.stanford.edu. 2021-08-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210823030223/https://mtl.stanford.edu/news/cameron-awkward-rich-wins-2018-lexi-rudnitsky-editors-chocie-award. live.
  2. Web site: Poets. Academy of American. About Cameron Awkward-Rich Academy of American Poets. 2021-07-14. poets.org. 2021-07-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210714214745/https://poets.org/poet/cameron-awkward-rich. live.
  3. Web site: 2021-07-14. Cameron Awkward-Rich. 2021-07-14. Poetry Foundation. en. 2021-07-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210714214743/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cameron-awkward-rich. live.
  4. Web site: 2020 Festival Biennial Festivals Programs Split This Rock. 2021-08-23. www.splitthisrock.org. 2021-08-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210823155327/https://www.splitthisrock.org/programs/festival-biennial/2020-festival/. live.
  5. Web site: 2019-12-09. Craft Capsule: Revising the Archive. 2021-08-23. Poets & Writers. en. 2021-08-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210823030351/https://www.pw.org/content/craft_capsule_revising_the_archive. live.
  6. Web site: Gow. Robin. 2020-02-10. Trying to feel a part of some kind of 'we': A Conversation with Cameron Awkward-Rich. 2021-08-23. The Adroit Journal. en-US. 2021-08-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210823030335/https://theadroitjournal.org/2020/02/10/trying-to-feel-a-part-of-some-kind-of-we-a-conversation-with-cameron-awkward-rich/. live.
  7. Web site: Marshell. Kyla. 2017-02-21. The PEN Ten with Cameron Awkward-Rich. 2021-08-23. PEN America. en. 2021-08-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210823030048/https://pen.org/pen-ten-cameron-awkward-rich/. live.

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