Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster and Dispatch, forthcoming from Persea Books in Fall 2019. A poet and critic, Cam is a Cave Canem fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, and an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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