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. This Is My Body earned a Bronze Medal in Creative Nonfiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was a finalist for the Foreword INDIE Book of the Year Award in Autobiography and Memoir. Cameron's nonfiction has appeared in The Kiss anthology, Vogue, Guernica, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Seattle Pacific University and has taught creative writing at Rice University, where she is a lecturer, as well as at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Duke Divinity, Writers in the Schools Houston, Inprint Houston, and Hugo House.