Bad Immigrant
You came so far
and I
want only
to go back.
A. J. Bermudez is the author of Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, winner of the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She’s a recipient of the Page Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Diverse Voices Award, the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, and the Steinbeck Fellowship.
