Amy DeBellis
Flash Fiction Judge | Grand Opening Contest

Amy DeBellis is a multi-genre writer and the author of the novel All Our Tomorrows, which can be described as The Hours meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation. It is forthcoming from CLASH Books in February 2025. Her flash fiction has been published in journals including HAD, Milk Candy Review, Fractured, Ghost Parachute, Monkeybicycle, and Flash Frog. Her short stories have appeared in Write or Die, Atticus Review, Maudlin House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, JMWW, and elsewhere. Her poetry can be found in journals such as The Shore, Blue Earth Review, Atlas and Alice, and Anti-Heroin Chic. Her creative nonfiction has been published in Pithead Chapel, Fractured, and The Argyle Lit Mag.  

 

She is originally from New York City, where she earned a BA in English from NYU. Her work is inspired by history of all kinds: the personal and the geographical, as well as the intersection and interplay between experience and memory. She also enjoys exploring the messier themes of life, including fraught female friendships, familial trauma, and abusive relationships. Much of her writing revolves around situations that are constantly in flux—unstable partnerships, uneasy friendships—as she relishes the challenge in writing about concepts that can’t easily be pinned down. Her literary inspirations include Donna Tartt (her favorite novel of all time is The Secret History), Hanya Yanagihara, and Kazuo Ishiguro. She is currently at work on a memoir and a fantasy novel. She is also passionate about raising awareness for chronic illness, especially Long Covid and ME/CFS.   VISIT AMY'S WEBSITE