Sonia Farmer's position as a part of the new 'Current' Team at Baha Mar is to catalogue the Baha Mar art collection as well as archive and shape the narrative of the art program. Farmer draws upon her background in writing and love for the ancient crafts of bookbinding, papermaking, and letterpress-printing. She is the founder of Poinciana Paper Press, a small fine press that produces hand-bound limited-edition chapbooks of Caribbean writing, based out of The Bahamas. Her poetry has won the 2011 Small Axe Literary Competition in Poetry and has appeared in various publications, and her artwork has been exhibited in the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and in several Transforming Spaces Art Tours. She holds a BFA in Writing from Pratt institute.

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