Kristi Ferguson is a writer and researcher from Brazil who lives in Northern Virginia. Her creative writing has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, MAYDAY, Litro Magazine, and elsewhere.

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Her writing has been supported by scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop. She reads creative nonfiction for TriQuarterly and earned a PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 2019.

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Kristi is currently querying a memoir centered on a friendship between two girls growing up in an apocalyptic cult. Her latest project is a campus novel in which a burnt-out doctoral student on the brink of a mental breakdown faces a crisis in her estranged family the same week she is due to propose her dissertation in decision analysis.