Talk and Reading with Megan Fernandes


DATE
Tuesday November 21, 2023
TIME
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
COST
Free

Join us for a talk and reading with scholar and writer Megan Fernandes hosted by Assistant Professor Cecily Nicholson.

Megan is a writer living in New York City. She has published in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, among others. Her third book of poetry, I Do Everything I’m Told, was published by Tin House in June 2023. Megan is an Associate Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry, environmental writing, and critical theory. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, the Yaddo Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, etc. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.

This event is open to alumni, students, faculty and staff of UBC Creative Writing. Registration is required.  


Visiting Writers Program

The School of Creative Writing’s Visiting Writers Program provides an opportunity for our students, alumni and faculty to connect with insightful writers in small group settings. We encourage everyone in Creative Writing to take advantage of this opportunity – it’s a unique benefit of being involved in the School.

This event is open to alumni, students, faculty and staff of UBC Creative Writing.