Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy
Occupation Author, journalist, editor
Literary movement New Narrative

Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles.

Bellamy is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement of the early and mid 1980s, which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling.[1]

Bellamy also directed the San Francisco writing lab, Small Press Traffic, and taught creative writing at the San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of San Francisco, Naropa University, Antioch University Los Angeles, San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and the California Institute of the Arts.[2]

Bibliography


Personal life

Bellamy grew up in Indiana, and studied at Indiana University. She moved to San Francisco in the late 1970s.[5]

Although a lesbian, Bellamy is married to the gay writer Kevin Killian, and the couple have an active heterosexual sex life.[6][7]

References

  1. "White Columns - Exhibitions". White Columns. 2006. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  2. Suspect Thoughts Press. Dodie Bellamy.
  3. "The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy." SFGate. January 2, 2005.
  4. Navaratnam, Subashini (10 February 2016). "Questioning Authenticity and Narrative Performance in Dodie Bellamy's 'When the Sick Rule the World'". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  5. Higgs, Christopher (July 29, 2014). "Colonized on Every Level: An Interview with Dodie Bellamy". The Paris Review. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  6. Bellamy, Dodie (June 20, 2000). "My Mixed Marriage". Village Voice. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  7. Buuck, David. "Dodie Bellamy". BOMB. Retrieved 29 June 2016.

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