Megan Fernandes is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books, 2015) and Good Boys (Tin House, 2020). Her third book of poetry, I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House), was published in summer 2023. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Chicago Review, among other publications. She is an associate professor of English and the writer-­in-residence at Lafayette College.