Axton Reading

Cameron Awkward-Rich's most recent book is The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022). He is also the author of two collections of poetry: Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and he has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and the Lannan Foundation.

Also a scholar of trans theory and expressive culture in the U.S., Cameron earned his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature. His more critical writing can be found in Signs, Trans Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly,and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Duke University and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Awkward-Rich was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Transgender Studies & Humanities Project with the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Presently, he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.