Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area's avant-garde literary scene, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation and all things queer. In her words, she champions “the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchised, the fucked-up.”  Bellamy is the author of numerous books, including When the Sick Rule the World (2015), The TV Sutras (2014), Cunt Norton (2013), Barf Manifesto (2008) and The Letters of Mina Harker (1998), an epistolary novel written from the perspective of the heroine Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which was recently rereleased in a new edition by Semiotext(e). With her late husband Kevin Killian, she edited the anthology Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997 (2017). In 2019, she was the subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s “On Our Mind” program, a yearlong series of public events, commissioned essays and reading group meetings inspired by an artist’s life and work. Bellamy teaches literature and fine arts theory at California College of the Arts.