https://bferg.com/work daily 0.75 2024-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5969ca01914e6bd0ded71b99/1557349974469-BHVQRIFYM0X60GR5TB6P/EE18C6CA-8005-403A-83A6-6F0D9CE41F86.jpg Home https://bferg.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2025-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5969ca01914e6bd0ded71b99/634e2766-910c-4145-b490-452f1af91e4a/author+photo+2.jpg Home Bernard Ferguson (they/them) is a Bahamian poet, essayist and is currently working on a book of nonfiction, The Climate Sirens (Graywolf, 2024), 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. Bernard 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 served as Assistant Editor at Washington Square Review and has received fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, 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 Magazine, The New Yorker, VICE News, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review and Winter Tangerine, as well as the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, among others. They teach creative writing at New York University and The New School. They hope you tell them all about your wonder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d00f106b8f5b01c8e73f52/1491858366054-VN3632LUL8YNY0SH4RCQ/color-3.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5969ca01914e6bd0ded71b99/1557352650259-F1YY097WDNSVIW14W227/site-bg.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5969ca01914e6bd0ded71b99/1568439006909-S51FN01YMG9QHXB17Z3Y/site-bg-light.jpg Home https://bferg.com/forkiitan daily 0.75 2023-05-26 https://bferg.com/zine daily 0.75 2025-06-26