Home

Ernestia Fraser Scripts are registered with the Library of Congress and WGA(w).

EMF is a published author and award-winning poet and screenwriter with a double B.A. in English and Communication and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Screenwriting. In 2011, her screenplay, Inside the Fallen Moon, won 1^st prize in the Hollywood Black Film Festival International Storyteller Competition. Following the success of her script, Fraser was awarded a screenwriting fellowship at the Writer’s Institute for Diversity in Los Angeles, which was facilitated by Harrison Reiner, a CBS Television Story Analyst. Her first book, a literary memoir called Carnival of Love: A Tale of a Bahamian Family, is now being taught in high schools across The Bahamas, her native homeland. Fraser is currently living in the Bahamas, working as a writing instructor at The Tutoring Station and as a part-time editor at MasterWriting242. The Tutoring Station and MasterWriting242 were also founded by her. She is an Adjunct Professor at The University of the Bahamas and Assistant Director in the University’s Writing Center, in New Providence, in The Bahamas. Her talents are unmistakenly awe aspiring–where her work is definitely just a read away from a major discovery . Ernestia has dedicated her life to her passion, and our not knowing of Fraser, means that she is being robbed and we are being robbed.

Born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas, and traveled to the United States to attain undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Communications Film. Her first book, a work of creative nonfiction called Carnival of Love, was published by Caribbean Studies Press in December 2012. She is currently working on a collection of poems entitled Shallow Water: A Short History of Where I’m From. Her poetry has appeared in and is forthcoming in Tongues of the Ocean, The Caribbean Writer, Quiddity, Emerge Literary Journal, Blackberry, and St. Somewhere Journal.