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Megan Arlett

Denton, Texas

Poet Megan Arlett was born in the UK and grew up in Spain. She earned an MFA in Poetry at Florida International University and is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of North Texas. She is an editor at the Plath Poetry Project and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New British and Irish Poets 2018, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She she edits the Plath Poetry Project as a co-founding editor, and she lives in Denton, Texas.

Column 743

I Ask My Grandmother What Trinidad Was Like in 1960