Cameron Quan

Poet

Tucson, AZ
Arizona US

Author's Bio

Cameron Quan is a poet, essayist, and visual artist from Tucson, AZ. He is the author of Apology Engine (Gold Line Press, 2022), selected by Trace Peterson for the Gold Line Press 2020 Chapbook Contest. He received his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Washington. He served on the board of directors with POG from 2018-2021 and currently works at the University of Arizona Press. He has received grants from the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poems have been selected for the Best New Poets Anthology and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find his recent poems, prose, and erasures in The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry ReviewThe Gravity of the Thing, EntropySonora ReviewThe Spectacle, Fourth Genre, Quarterly West, The MarginsWendy’s Subway, and Pacifica Literary Review, among others.

 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Best New Poets (Meridian, 2020)
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Ritual & Capital (Wendy's Subway, 2020)
Chapbook:
Apology Engine (Gold Line Press, 2022)
Journals:
Air/Light
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Entropy
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Foothill
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Gold Man Review
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Hobart
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Jubilat
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Margins
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Spectacle
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The Nervous Breakdown
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Timber
Prizes won: 
  • Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Competition (2020), selected by Trace Peterson
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination (2023 Best Small Fictions), Hayden’s Ferry Review – A Box Within Which”
  • Best New Poets, 2020
  • “A Simple Watch” shortlisted for The A3 Review, 2018
  • McLeod-Grobe Prize for Poetry (2017)
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination (2016, Foothill: A Journal of Poetry)
  • Bill and Ruth True Family Prize | Multiplying Mediums Fellow (2016)
  • Hattie Lockett Award (2011)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American, Chinese American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Tucson, AZ
Arizona
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Last update: Feb 24, 2025