What Matters
Jamy Bond’s newest short story, published in the literary journal Bending Genres.
Jamy Bond is a fiction and nonfiction writer.
Her work appears in The Rumpus, The Sun Magazine, Barren Magazine, The Forge Literary Magazine, Tiny Molecules, JMWW, Flash Frog, Mac(ro)mic, Janus Literary, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from George Mason University where she co-founded So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art.
She was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent three years researching and writing in Mozambique. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria, which launched a decade of working in international development and disaster relief.
Jamy’s work and writing have sent her across five continents and through 25 countries, including two war zones. Today, she lives with her family on the banks of Aquia Creek just outside of Washington, DC. Contact Jamy at jamy@jamybond.com.
Jamy is represented by Jesseca Salky at Salky Literary Management.

“Jamy explores the darker side of the human experience with equal parts grace and gravity.”
– Writer Elizabeth Edwards
Stories and Creative Nonfiction
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Your Broken Hands
Creative Nonfiction Pithead Chapel - February 2022
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What Matters
Creative Nonfiction Bending Genres - December 2021
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What My Mother Talks About
Ghost Parachute December 1, 2021
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Shipwrecked
Creative Nonfiction
JMWW – September 2021
*Nominated for Best American Essays -
Morphine
The Forge Literary
August 9, 2021 -
Therapy
Mac(ro)mic
June 30, 2021 -
Combat Zone
Tiny Molecules
Issue Nine, June 2021 -
Lesson in Survival
Janus Literary
May 2021
*Nominated for Best of the Net -
Kaysera Stops Pretty Places
Flash Frog Magazine
April 29, 2021 -
Gifts
Barren Magazine, Issue 18, Idle Revelries
*Editor’s Pick April 2021 -
We Thought You Might Like to Know
X-R-A-Y
February 22, 2021 -
American Girl Doll
Emerge Literary Magazine
September 2020 -
Come Here, I Want to Tell You Something
X-R-A-Y
July 24, 2020 -
The Baby
X-R-A-Y
October 28, 2019 -
(pro) ANA
Wigleaf
December, 3, 2013
