Megan Fernandes

Megan Fernandes is a South Asian American writer living in New York City. She was born in Canada and moved to the Philadelphia area when she was seven. Her family are East African Goans. Fernandes has work forthcoming or published or in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, The Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her second book of poetry, Good Boys, was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize (2018), the Saturnalia Book Prize (2018), and was published with Tin House Books in February 2020. Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.