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A. J. BERMUDEZ is an award-winning writer and director who divides her time between 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. Writing credits include MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE (co-written with director Kyle Hausmann Stokes; starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman), iCON (Grand Prize Winner of the PAGE Award, 2021), NIGHTINGALE (Grand Prize Winner of an International Screenwriters Association Award, 2020), and THE FACE OF THE EARTH (Grand Prize Winner of the Diverse Voices Award, 2018). Her work has been featured at such venues as the Yale Center for British Art, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and SXSW, and has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of literary publications, including The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Chicago Quarterly Review, Story, Hopkins Review, Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction, Electric Literature, The Masters Review, Columbia Journal, The Chicago Review, Fiction International, The Offing, Gertrude Press, Hobart, Black Static, Cheap Pop, Exposition Review, Lunch Ticket, Baltimore Review, Epiphany, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.