Ernestia Fraser 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. Other publications include Shallow Water: a short history of where I’m from (poetry collection), I Am Loved (children’s book) and Carnival of Love: A Study Guide. Fraser is currently living in The Bahamas, working as a writing instructor at The Tutoring Station and as an editor at MasterWriting242. The Tutoring Station and MasterWriting242 were also founded by her. 

Her favorite writers include Rumi, Edwidge Danticat, Sandra Cisneros, Charlie Kaufmann, Julia Kasdorf, Yann Martel, Arundhati Roy, and many more.