Megan Fernandes
Instructor
About Megan
Megan Fernandes earned her PhD in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds an MFA in poetry from Boston University. She is the poetry editor of the anthology Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books) and is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Organ Speech (Corrupt Press) and Some Citrus Makes me Blue (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Memorious, Guernica, Rattle, the Boston Review, Black Lawrence Press, Redivider, Upstairs at Duroc, the California Journal of Poetics, and Media Fields: Science and Scale. Fernandes is the recent recipient of the "Writers Room of Boston" fellowship in poetry, the Dzanc Books Luso-Descent Writers Award, the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, and was commended by Don Paterson in the 2012 Edwin Morgan International Poetry Contest. Currently, she is a Visiting Lecturer at MIT.