CAMERON DEZEN HAMMON

 ABOUT

Cameron Dezen Hammon is the author of This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession (Lookout Books), the Nonfiction Discovery Prize Winner for the 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards, a bronze medalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award in Creative Nonfiction, and a finalist for the Foreword INDIE Book of the Year in Autobiography and Memoir. Kirkus called This Is My Body "a generous and unflinchingly brave memoir about faith, feminism, and freedom.” Her nonfiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Sun, Prairie Schooner, The Kiss anthology (W.W. Norton), Vogue, Ecotone, the Literary Review, the Houston Chronicle, NYLON, and elsewhere. She currently teaches nonfiction writing at Rice University.

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