A South Asian American poet born in Canada and raised in the Philadelphia area, Megan Fernandes is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books, 2015), Good Boys (Tin House, 2020), and I Do Everything I'm Told (Tin House, 2023). Her family are East African Goans. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. An associate professor of English and writer-in-residence at Lafayette College, she lives in New York City.
