Cameron Awkward-Rich Recognized by Ebony Magazine for National Poetry Month
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, was recently recognized by Ebony Magazine for National Poetry Month.
Ebony writes,
Since his 2016 release “Sympathetic Little Monster,” won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award in 2018, young poet Cameron Awkward-Rich has been on the literary world’s radar. He is also a Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has penned a number of essays on gender and racial politics. Awkward-Rich continues to use his platform as an artist and educator to spread awareness of social justice and the unique experiences of transgender and Black individuals.
Awkward-Rich’s other essays have appeared in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly, and Science Fiction Studies. Awkward-Rich is also author of two collections of poetry. Dispatch, recently published by Persea Books in December 2019, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and has been featured in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.