Megan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, The Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.