Jen Ferguson

Métis with ancestral ties to the Red River (on her father's side) and Canadian settler (on her mother's side), an activist, a feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with a PhD in English and Creative Writing. Jen believes writing, teaching and beading are political acts. She is represented by Patricia Nelson at Looking Glass Literary & Media.

Her debut young adult novel, THE SUMMER OF BITTER AND SWEET, won a 2022 Govenor General's Literary Award and is a 2023 Stonewall Honor Book, among other accolades. Her newest book THOSE PINK MOUNTAIN NIGHTS is a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection and has four starred reviews. A CONSTELLATION OF MINOR BEARS is a USA Today Bestseller with two starred reviews.

Jen lives on the traditional and unceded territories of the Meskwaki, the Báxoje and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations, and teaches fiction writing at Coe College. You can reach her through her contact page.