Jami Bernard (born on August 10, 1956) is an author and media consultant, an award-winning film critic for The New York Post and The New York Daily News, and founder of Barncat Publishing. She has appeared in documentaries as herself, including the Independent Film Channel's Indie Sex series, on which she was a consultant. Bernard wrote a Lois Lane comic for DC Comics in which Lois is based on Bernard's early career at The New York Post. Bernard is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows; appearances include on Oprah, The Today Show, and Lynn Samuels on Satellite Radio. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, including Entertainment Weekly, Seventeen, Glamour and Self.
Bernard has written 8 books including: The Incredible Shrinking Critic, Chick Flicks, Total Exposure, First Films, Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies and Breast Cancer: There and Back.
Bernard is a member and former chair of the New York Film Critics Circle, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics [1]. In 2008, she founded Barncat Publishing, where she coaches writers and helps them finish their books and book proposals.
Bernard is a survivor of breast cancer and a breast cancer advocate and keynote speaker who wrote a book about her experience - Breast Cancer: There and Back - and writes a regular column for MAMM magazine, the magazine for women with cancer [2].