Joel Robert Ferguson is a poet of working-class settler origins. Raised in the Nova Scotian village of Bible Hill, he now lives in Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory, where he is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba. His poetry has recently appeared in The Columbia Review, EVENT, The Quarantine Review, Queen's Quarterly, and Riddle Fence, and his debut collection, "The Lost Cafeteria" (Signature Editions, 2020), was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.