Megan Fernandes is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and received her MFA in poetry at Boston University. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in RATTLE, Upstairs at Duroc and Media Fields: Science and Scale. She is the poetry editor of the anthology Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books) and is the author of two chapbooks: Organ Speech (Corrupt Press) and Some Citrus Makes me Blue (Dancing Girl Press). Currently, she is teaching poetry in the Creative Writing department at Boston University.