In this Craft-Lesson Bahamian poet, essayist and educator, Bernard Ferguson reads and speaks on critical analysis.

By great luck, they’re the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award and the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest, among others. Their work has been supported by NYU’s Global Research Initiative, New York’s Writers in the Public Schools, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Bernard has taught creative writing at New York University and numerous New York public schools, and by the kindness of friends and editors, their work has been featured, published or is forthcoming in The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, VICE News, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Bernard is currently working on a book of nonfiction, The Climate Sirens (Graywolf, 2024), about Hurricane Dorian and the effects of climate change on Small-Island Developing States across the world.