Amy DeBellis is an American author known for her incisive explorations of memory, grief, and the slow apocalypse of modern life. Her debut novel All Our Tomorrows is “a must-read for anyone wondering how to live on—and fight back—in the face of a future that looks like the end.”
All Our Tomorrows (CLASH Books, 2025) was featured in Foreword Reviews, which called its prose “beautiful and, at times, brilliant.” Amy is also the author of Methuselah (Royal Ouroboros Press, 2026) and The Widening Gyre (forthcoming from Lanternfish Press, June 2026).
Her writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, has appeared in the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and can be found in X-R-A-Y, Uncharted, Passages North, Write or Die, Trampset, Pithead Chapel, Monkeybicycle, Fractured, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and over fifty other journals.
Praise for Amy DeBellis
“From the first short story I read, Amy's work has always reminded me of Palahniuk spun in the female experience. And talk about range: from macabre humor, to unsettling catharsis, to hopeful realism, to sci-fi and horror and contemporary litfic, she does it all. And she does it with a fraction of the energy the rest of us have.”
— Katlyn Wolff
“Amy DeBellis writes with ferocious conviction for truth. [Her] dedication to craft has enabled her to expertly construct rich worlds of her own making, ones that feel as authentic and troubled as the one we live in today.”
— Nicholas Claro, author of This is Where You Are: Stories
“Exquisite prose and an undercurrent of existential themes are staples of Debellis’s work. When an author manages to nail all four of these aspects—plot, characters, setting, and language—it’s marvelous and deeply satisfying for me.”
— Natalie (Goodreads)
“DeBellis writes with such humanity that I rarely see exhibited outside of the most superb and awarded literary fiction. DeBellis’ writing is something I would argue should be studied, as it is on par with the best novels and stories I have been encouraged to read when studying for my English degree. I believe a less-discussed part of being a good writer is the humanity it takes to bear your soul to the world, and for those pieces of yourself to be communicable and life-changing when encountered. DeBellis does exactly that, and that is no small achievement.”
— Rebecca Lommers, WSU Crimson Review
“DeBellis perfectly captures the nihilism and loneliness affecting so many women through her protagonists. The prose is utterly sublime and will have your jaw routinely hitting the floor.”
— Samantha Crewson, author of Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter
“Amy DeBellis’s writing is sharp, smart, and honestly beautiful—it makes you stop and reread lines just to soak them in. For a debut, this feels unbelievably polished.”
— Crystal L (Goodreads)
“The frantic pursuit of bionic memory and immortality, DeBellis shows us, will not elevate humanity. Only art, electric and ephemeral—only nature, imperiled and persistent—only life, grievously and marvelously short—can do that.”
— M. C. Benner Dixon, author of The Height of Land
“You know a book is good when you get the ebook as well so you can highlight favorite passages of writing. It’s not surprising since I’ve loved reading the work that Amy has had published in literary magazines, so being immersed in a whole novel filled with her writing was truly a treat. Amy DeBellis is undoubtedly a literary talent of our times.”
— Ally Kolzow
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