Author Event: Jen Ferguson in conversation with Terri M. LeBlanc

Join us at the Marion Public Library on Wednesday, September 25 at 6 pm as we celebrate the release of A Constellation of Minor Bears by award-winner young adult author Jen Ferguson.

Preorder The Constellation of Minor Bears and get some amazing swag as a thank you: https://swampfoxbookstore.com/preorders/jen-ferguson

About 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 Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
 
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. Her novella "Missing" won the Malahat Review's 2022 Novella Prize and her essay "Off Balance" was selected for the Best Canadian Essays 2020.
 
Jen lives on the traditional and unceded territories of the Meskwaki, the Báxoje and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations, and teaches fiction writing at Coe College.