

We talked over email about Awkward-Rich’s Wesleyan experience, his poetry practice, and why he continues to identify as a “Sympathetic Little Monster.” His second collection of poetry, “Dispatch,” is forthcoming from Persea Books in December 2019. Awkward-Rich is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

from Stanford University’s program in Modern Thought & Literature.

Since then, Awkward-Rich has published the poetry collection “Sympathetic Little Monster” (Ricochet Editions, 2016), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and earned his Ph.D. Cameron Awkward-Rich, who graduated from Wesleyan in 2011, was known around campus for his slam poetry, his rugby career, the Queer Art magazine that he helped found, and his campus activism.
