Megan Arlett was born in the UK, grew up in Spain, and now lives in Texas where she is pursuing her PhD. She is an editor at the Plath Poetry Project. The recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2019, Best New British and Irish Poets, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, and elsewhere.

Other poems on the web by Megan Arlett:
"I Ask My Grandmother What Trinidad Was Like in 1960"
Two poems
"Almanac"
"Aubade in Los Angeles"
"Hostage"

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