A.J. Bermudez

A.J. Bermudez is the author of the short-story collection Stories No One Hopes Are About Them (University of Iowa Press), and her short fiction and essays have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, LitHub, McSweeney’s, SmokeLong Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, and Electric Literature, among many others. She co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film My Dead Friend Zoe, which premiered and won the Audience Award at South By Southwest Film Festival. Her screenwriting has also been honored at Sundance Film Festival, the LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival, and the International Screenwriters Association, and she is a recipient of the Page Award. She has served as editor of the Maine Review and the Artistic Director of The American Playbook. She has taught at Boston University and the University of Miami, and elsewhere. She has studied at Yale University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University.