Poet and writer Cameron Awkward-Rich is author of the full-length poetry collections Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019) and Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), as well as the chapbook Transit (Button Poetry, 2015). A Cave Canem fellow, Awkward-Rich earned a PhD from Stanford University. He teaches women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is an editor at Muzzle Magazine and HEArt. Awkward-Rich’s poetry and essays explore artists’ ability to reimagine the politics of social worlds.