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.

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.

Bibliography

• Feminine Hijinx (1991) ISBN 978-0-937815-43-4
• Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D'Allesandro (1994) ISBN 978-1-883689-17-9.
• Broken English (1996) OCLC 34635581
• Cunt-ups (2001) ISBN 978-0-927920-09-4
• The Letters of Mina Harker (2004) ISBN 978-0-299-20674-1
• Academonia (2006) ISBN 978-1-928650-25-6
• Barf Manifesto (2008)
• Pink Steam (2008) ISBN 978-0-9746388-0-5
• Cunt Norton (2013) ISBN 978-1-934254-49-3
• When the Sick Rule the World (2015) ISBN 978-1-584351-68-9

Personal life

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

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

External links

• Academonia at Krupskaya Books
• Lodestar Quarterly interview
• Jacket interview