A. J. Bermudez

Biography

A. J. Bermudez is the author of Stories No One Hopes Are About Them (Iowa UP, 2022), winner of the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. She is a recipient of the PAGE Award, the Pushcart Prize, the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Award, and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. Her writing has received support from the Steinbeck Fellowship, the Bethany Arts Community, the Watermill Center, and the Nawat Fes Residency in Morocco. Bermudez currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

 

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FICTION / Fiction 2024

Hello From Nowhere

By A. J. Bermudez ,  Illustration by Michelle Thompson

There was not going to be a funeral. On that point, Grady was perfectly clear.

When I got off the plane, he sneered. “Private jet?”

“No, bumfuck. A Cessna’s just the largest plane that flies to this mud pit.”

Illustration by Michelle Thompson
FICTION / Fall 2022

The Real India

By A. J. Bermudez ,  Illustration by Jamiel Law

 Outside the window, other women stare soberly, unchosen. I haven’t just given a person one hundred dollars. I’ve given hundreds of people nothing.