Jay Bernard (FRSL) is a writer from London. Their work is interdisciplinary, critical, queer, and rooted in poetry, the voice and social histories. They won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for Surge: Side A, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire in 1981, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for the poetry collection that followed.
In 2020 Jay was selected to be a part of Thinking Time, an initiative by Artangel that supported early-career artists to research, reflect, and develop their ideas. Recent work includes Crystals of this Social Substance (Serpentine Pavilion, 2021), You are Invited Back to the Land (Tate Britain, 2023) and Far from the Start (Studio Voltaire, 2024).