Cameron Barnett is a poet and teacher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of the collections, Murmur and The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water, winner of the Autumn House Press 2017 Rising Writer Contest and finalist for the 49th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. His newest work is a chapbook collection entitled The Bones We Lose, published by Chatham University’s Fourth River literary magazine. Cameron is a graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School and Duquesne University, and he holds his MFA and MAT from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently is the 2022-2024 Emerging Black Writer in Residence for Chatham University’s MFA program. He is the winner of the 2019 Emerging Artist Award for the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards. Cameron’s work explores the complexity of race, place, and relationships for Black people in America. He teaches middle school English language arts and social studies at his alma mater.