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ERNESTIA FRASER (born July 1986) is an author, screenwriter, poet, and educator, who was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. She has received a double B.A. in English and Communication at Messiah College, and also an M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Screenwriting at Chatham University. She has received a number of international literary awards and honors in both poetry and screenwriting. In 2011, her thesis screenplay, Inside the Fallen Moon, won 1st prize in the Hollywood Black Film Festival International Storyteller Competition. Shortly after, she attended the Writer’s Institute for Diversity in Los Angeles facilitated by Harrison Reiner, a CBS Television Story Analyst. In 2012, her literary memoir, Carnival of Love: A Tale of a Bahamian Family, was accepted for publication by Caribbean Studies Press.

To date, Fraser’s poetry has appeared in both Caribbean and international journals, such as St. Somewhere, Tongues of the Ocean, The Caribbean Writer, Quiddity, Emerge Literary Journal, Blackberry, POUI: Cave Hill Journal and the Caribbean Quarterly. Her poem, “The Way We Dance” won The Caribbean Writer’s 2014 “Daily News Prize.”

After spending a number of years teaching at Bahamian high schools and colleges, she developed a keen interest in expanding learning opportunities throughout the nation and wider Caribbean. Through the creation of innovative ventures like The Tutoring Station and MasterWriting242, Fraser hopes to make a lasting impact in the field of education, inspiring more academic achievement and personal growth.

Fraser is presently living in the Bahamas, working as a writing instructor at The Tutoring Station.

Published works
Literary memoir, Carnival of Love: A Tale of a Bahamian Family, Caribbean Studies (C)2013; Self-published/rights retained 2019.