A. J. Bermudez

A. J. Bermudez is an award-winning author and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and New York. Her first book, Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, won the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. Her most recent feature film, My Dead Friend Zoe (cowritten with director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes and starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman), premiered at SXSW and won the 2024 Narrative Spotlight Audience Award. Her work has been featured at Sundance, the Yale Center for British Art, and the LGBT Toronto Film Festival, and in a number of literary publications, including The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Chicago Quarterly Review, Story, Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction, Electric Literature, The Masters Review, Columbia Journal, LitHub, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Diverse Voices Award, the PAGE Award, and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, and has been named one of the ISA’s Top 25 Writers to Watch. Her work has received support from the Banff Centre, Montalvo Arts Center, and the Cultural Association of Morocco. Bermudez is also a former boxer and EMT, and her work gravitates toward contemporary explorations of power, privilege, and place.