b ferguson (they/them) is a Bahamian poet, essayist and is currently working on a book of nonfiction, The Climate Sirens (Graywolf, forthcoming), about Hurricane Dorian, the effects of climate change on Small-Island Developing States, and how centuries of far-flung injustices—like colonization, slavery, and numerous inequalities at local and global scales—have come to cause the climate crisis.
b is the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, a winner of the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest, winner of The Cincinnati Review’s 2019 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, winner of The 2019 Breakwater Peseroff Poetry Prize, winner of the 2019 Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Prize, and an Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), New York Foundation for the Arts, NYU’s Creative Writing Graduate Program, NYU’s Global Research Initiative, and New York City’s Writers in the Public Schools. They and their writing have been featured, published or forthcoming in The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Times, The New Yorker, VICE News, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day, and Winter Tangerine, and anthologized in US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions, 2024) and Best New Poets 2017, among others. They teach creative writing at New York University and The New School. They hope you tell them all about your wonder.
