Cameron Awkward-Rich

{{short description|American poet}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Cameron Awkward-Rich wins 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Chocie Award! {{!}} Modern Thought & Literature|url=https://mtl.stanford.edu/news/cameron-awkward-rich-wins-2018-lexi-rudnitsky-editors-chocie-award|access-date=2021-08-23|website=mtl.stanford.edu|date=16 May 2018 |archive-date=2021-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823030223/https://mtl.stanford.edu/news/cameron-awkward-rich-wins-2018-lexi-rudnitsky-editors-chocie-award|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|title=About Cameron Awkward-Rich {{!}} Academy of American Poets|url=https://poets.org/poet/cameron-awkward-rich|access-date=2021-07-14|website=poets.org|archive-date=2021-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714214745/https://poets.org/poet/cameron-awkward-rich|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2021-07-14|title=Cameron Awkward-Rich|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cameron-awkward-rich|access-date=2021-07-14|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|archive-date=2021-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714214743/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cameron-awkward-rich|url-status=live}} Awkward-Rich was a Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Thinking Trans/Trans Thinking Conference, organized by the Trans Philosophy Project.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} 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.{{Cite web|title=2020 Festival {{!}} Biennial Festivals {{!}} Programs {{!}} Split This Rock|url=https://www.splitthisrock.org/programs/festival-biennial/2020-festival/|access-date=2021-08-23|website=www.splitthisrock.org|archive-date=2021-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823155327/https://www.splitthisrock.org/programs/festival-biennial/2020-festival/|url-status=live}} He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.