Cameron Awkward-Rich
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Cave Canem Fellow & Winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky
Editor's Choice Award! 
Awkward-Rich’s poems are about haunting, being haunted, and what Jacques Derrida would call hauntology. His poems are about moving through space, or our tragic immobility in space, and the waiting that happens before movement begins, and again after it ends. His poems are haunted by the selves we were and might yet be, the selves that live in us, nested, intransigent, even through our alterations...What is perhaps most astonishing about Awkward-Rich’s work is how, in spite of writing so much about absence, he renders absence in its negative: as wholeness, fullness, fruition.
-RL Stein, in The Paris Review |
Cameron Awkward-Rich is a black, trans writer and 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 and was published by Persea Books in December, 2019. Cam is a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Watering Hole, and Duke University’s Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies program. His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Cameron earned a PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature, and he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Twitter: @cawkward_rich Instagram: @cawkward_rich 
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Awkward-Rich’s work exemplifies the breathtaking power of poetry to scramble common sense and produce from the wreckage the closest thing we’ll have to gorgeousness and truth this side of a revolution. —Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox |