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

  • Your Broken Hands

    Creative Nonfiction Pithead Chapel - February 2022



  • What Matters

    Creative Nonfiction Bending Genres - December 2021



  • What My Mother Talks About

    Ghost Parachute December 1, 2021

  • 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