Anbar Bermejo’s work is adult fiction written through a young-at-heart sensibility.
- Audience: Adults
- Protagonist: Closer to the reader’s own age (not a teenager)
- Perspective: Third-person, grounded, observational
- Core conflict: A life change that forces the loss of one identity and the uncertain formation of another
- Emotional register: Grounded uncertainty rather than adolescent intensity
- Tone: Romantic lens + lighthearted with youthful details (wonder, openness, small moments of delight) layered over more mature plotlines
- Prose: Simple, straightforward, accessible that prioritizes clarity and emotional presence over ornate language
This combination is what makes “young at heart” a useful descriptor. Anbar Bermejo is not writing about youth or for youth. She is writing with the qualities people often lose, or feel pressured to abandon, as they age: curiosity, emotional openness, a capacity for wonder, and the willingness to be changed by experience; while still addressing adult realities of identity, loss, and reinvention.
History
Her projects range from adult fiction with a young-at-heart spirit, dark academia and noir to reimagined fairytales and philosophical explorations of grace, memory, and human conduct. Whether working in fiction or creative nonfiction, Anbar is drawn to overlooked histories, symbolic detail, and characters shaped as much by restraint as by desire.
Mission
Anbar Bermejo is a Young at Heart (YH or YAH) author and creator.
Her mission as an author is to create work that rewards attentiveness—stories and ideas that slow the reader down, invite reflection, and offer a sense of depth without spectacle. She believes storytelling is not merely entertainment, but a form of calibration: a way of remembering what it feels like to think carefully, feel honestly, and stand still long enough to see clearly.