Jen Ferguson

Jen Ferguson is a Michif/Métis Canadian activist and writer of young adult fiction.

She has described herself as an army brat and grew up moving around Canada, spending a few years in Calgary, and then moving to Lloydminster, which she says was the first place where she witnessed anti-Indigenous violence.

Ferguson has a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of South Dakota.

Writing career

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Her debut novel, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, was published by Heartdrum in 2022.

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal. It was also a finalist for the 2023 William C. Morris Award as well as a Stonewall Book Award Honor Book in Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2023, and won the 2022 Cybils Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Those Pink Mountain Nights Her second novel, Those Pink Mountain Nights, is a sequel to her debut and was published by Heartdrum in 2023.