Jamy Bond is an American prose writer. Her debut chapbook Combat Zones won the 2025 Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest judged by Roxane Gay and was published in March 2026. Her hybrid chapbook, The Island of Ghost Ships, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her stories and essays have been widely published and anthologized, including in Best Microfiction 2023, The Sun Magazine, The Rumpus, and Wigleaf. She earned a BA in Philosophy and an MFA in Creative Writing, both from George Mason University where she co-founded So To Speak Journal. She lives with her family near Washington, DC. @jamy.bond www.jamybond.com
PRAISE:
“This beautiful work is both an elegy, and a remembrance, and it has the power of a brilliant and sorrowful poem. It will lift you up, as art does, while it brings tears.”
– Richard Bausch, author, most recently, of The Fate of Others: Stories
In her debut chapbook, The Island of Ghost Ships, Jamy Bond bravely explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: the loss of a person we simply can’t live without. The vulnerable, shimmering stories in this small but mighty collection are crafted of beautiful sentences and delivered with a glass blower’s precision. While survivor’s grief and loneliness define these pieces, there are many moments of tenderness, joy and love. This is an extraordinary debut, full of emotional truth— the work of a new short form master.
– Meg Pokrass, author, most recently, of First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories
In The Island of Ghost Ships, loss becomes both wound and witness. With the stark beauty of Louise Glück and the quiet radiance of Ocean Vuong, this chapbook lingers where grief and love are inseparable, asking what it means to hold on even as we let go. To read Jamy Bond’s debut chapbook is to walk with an incredible writer through the tender terrain of death and discover, among its ruins, elegy as a fragile kind of grace. At once intimate and expansive, this collection is not only a testament to a singular sisterly bond but also an offering to anyone who has stood at the threshold of sorrow and searched for light.
– Melissa Scholes Young, author of Flood and The Hive
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