A poet and critic, Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and Dispatch, winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award and forthcoming from Persea Books in 2019. His poetry has appeared in Narrative, The Baffler, Indiana Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere, and he has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and Duke University.