Jay Bernard (FRSL) is an interdisciplinary writer and artist from London whose work is rooted in sound, poetry and social history. Jay was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2020 and winner of the 2017 Ted Hughes Award for debut collection Surge. Recent work includes Far from the Start, an audio installation at Studio Voltaire that re-imagines the Windrush; Blue Now, a live rendition of Derek Jarman’s film ‘Blue’; Joint, a poetic-play about the history of joint enterprise; Crystals of this Social Substance, a sound installation about young people, capitalism and money at the 2021 Serpentine pavilion; Complicity, a pamphlet about colonial memory in the urban environment, based on the collection at the Tate; and The Last X Years, a digital and live sound piece produced by Art Angel. Jay was a DAAD literature fellow 2022, a 2023 fellow at the Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris and is the 2025 Judith E. Wilson poetry fellow at the University of Cambridge.