Bernard Ferguson

Bernard (he/him) is a Bahamian poet, essayist, and MFA candidate at New York University. He’s the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, a winner of the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest, winner of the 2019 Cincinnati Review Poetry Prize, winner of the 2019 Breakwater Review Peseroff Poetry Prize, winner of the winner of the 2019 Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Prize, and an Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar. He has work published or forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southampton Review, Narrative Magazine, The Common, and the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, among others. He has received fellowships from NYU’s Global Research Initiative, Writers in the Public Schools, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. He’s currently working on a book about Hurricane Dorian and Small Island Developing States, and he wants you to riot about the climate crisis. Please tell him all about your wonder.