American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor
Dodie Bellamy (born 1951) is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, educator and editor. Her book "Cunt-Ups" (2001) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Her work is frequently associated with that of the New Narrative movement in San Francisco and fellow writers Robert Glück, Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Kevin Killian, and Eileen Myles.
Early life and education.
Bellamy was born Doris Jane Bellamy in 1951 in North Hammond, Indiana. She grew up in Indiana and went on to study at Indiana University. She graduated in 1973.
San Francisco and New Narrative.
Bellamy moved to San Francisco in 1978. She was a core member of The Feminist Writers’ Guild.
Bellamy is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement of the early and mid 1980s. The movement attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction, like transgression, porn, gossip, and memoir, as well as French critical theory and incorporates them to narrative storytelling. Bellamy was a co-editor along with, Kevin Killian, of the New Narrative anthology "Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative, 1977–1997."
Works.
Bellamy published her first novel, "The Letters of Mina Harker", in 1998, which follows a character from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and fictionalizes her as a woman living in 1980s San Francisco. The book was re-published in 2021 by Semiotext(e). She published a memoir made up of blog entries, called "The Buddhist", in 2011 which follows a similar format as Dennis Cooper's "The Sluts". Bellamy's book features a self-destructive affair with a third-rate self-help guru. "The TV Sutras", was a 2014 memoir that draws heavily from her own experience in the cult Eckankar.
Bellamy's memoir and essay collections include "Pink Steam" (2004), "Academonia" (2006), and "When the Sick Rule the World" (2015).
The writer's poetry collections include "Cunt-Ups" (2001), a feminist reworking of the cut-up technique practiced by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, which received the Firecracker Award for Innovative Poetry, and "Cunt Norton" (2013).
"Barf Manifesto" (2008), was influence by the writer's intimate and working relationship with Eileen Myles.
A collection of new essays, "Bellamy Is on Our Mind", was published in 2020 by Wattis ICA/Semiotext(e).
Bellamy has stated that she draws inspiration from Conceptual art and writing practices, including cut-ups and generated texts.
Bellamy has also directed the San Francisco literary non-profit and writing lab, Small Press Traffic. She has 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.
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