Genki Ferguson

Genki Ferguson was born in New Brunswick to a family of writers and grew up in Calgary. He spent much of his childhood in the subtropical island of Kyushu, Japan, where his mother’s family still resides. Fluent in Japanese and capable of making a decent sushi roll, Genki currently lives in Vancouver with his partner, two chinchillas, two gerbils, five spiders, and a frog. His debut novel Satellite Love (McClelland & Stewart, 2021) is the story of a teenage girl in Southern Japan who falls in love with a satellite, and was on the 2022 Canada Reads Longlist.