ANTHOLOGIES

In the Footsteps of a Shadow:
North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa
Edited by Charles Cutler, Dan Mahoney, & Gaby Gordon-Fox
(MadHat Press, 2025)

Megan has two poems, “Painted Sky” and “Ambient City,” featured in this anthology of work inspired by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Contributors include Aileen Bass, Billy Collins, Sharon Dolin, Lynn Emmanuel, Erica Ehrenberg, Kay Ryan, Frederick Seidel, Katherine Vaz, and Naomi Washer, with an Introduction by Benjamin Kunkel.

Praise for In the Footsteps of a Shadow

“A beautiful testament to how far and fruitfully Pessoa’s shadow reaches.”
—Richard Zenith

“Fernando Pessoa enters the imaginations of these gifted American poets like a frightening medicine, challenging them to self-divide, multiply, renounce stability, and relish in the dead-time that our culture so vehemently abhors.”
—Larissa Szporluk

“This superb anthology offers ample testimony to Pessoa’s place now in the North American literary mainstream…”
—Onésimo Almeida