Reading by Megan Fernandes and Chet'la Sebree

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Poetry at Bennington welcomes Megan Fernandes and Chet'la Sebree for a public reading of their poetry.

Megan Fernandes is a South Asian American writer born in Canada and living in New York City. Her three collections of poetry are I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House, 2023); Good Boys (Tin House, 2020), a finalist for the Kundiman Poetry Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books, 2015). Her family are East African Goans. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Common, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is Associate Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College.

Chet'la Sebree is the author of Field Study (FSG Originals, June 2021), winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong for the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and an NAACP Image Award finalist. Her debut essay collection about her relationship to home, heritage, and belonging through domestic and international travel is forthcoming from The Dial Press in 2025. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Guernica, Kenyon Review, Poetry International, and Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. She is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University and teaches in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA program.

Chet'la Sebree Photo Credit: Shannon Woodloe