Jay Bernard is the author of the pamphlets Your Sign is Cuckoo Girl (Tall Lighthouse 2008)
English Breakfast (Math Paper Press 2013) and The Red and Yellow Nothing (Ink Sweat & Tears
Press 2016) which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2017. A film programmer at BFI
Flare and an archivist at Statewatch they also participated in ¿The Complete Works II¿ project
in 2014 and in which they were mentored by Kei Miller. Jay was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year
in 2005 and a winner of SLAMbassadors UK spoken word championship. In 2019 Jay was selected by
Jackie Kay as one of Britain's ten best BAME writers for the British Council and National
Centre for Writing's International Literature Showcase. Their poems have been collected in
Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe 2009) The Salt Book of Younger
Poets (Salt 2011) Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe 2014) and Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian
Poets (Bloodaxe 2014).
