Megan Fernandes is a South Asian American writer living in New York City. She earned a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. Her second book of poetry, Good Boys (Tin House Books, 2020), was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize and the Saturnalia Book Prize. Fernandes is an assistant professor of English and the writer-in-residence at Lafayette College, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. Fernandes was a reviewer for Harriet Books.