Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy, the influential fiction writer and essayist, is one of
the important voices of our moment. At its best, her writing
embodies syntax with a devastating confessional eros, a writing haunting
as Messiaen, steamy as Macy Gray. Sinultaneously it
collapses the boundaries between the marketing tools we ordinarily think
of as "novel," "poem," "theory," "elegy,"
"punchline,"
"criticism," and "allegory." Since she left the directorate
of Small Press Traffic two years ago she has been teaching, writing journalism
and working on a new novel, The Fourth Form, a "multi-dimensional
romance." Dodie Bellamy is the author of Feminine Hijinx (Hanuman,
1990), Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D'Allesandro (Talisman
House, 1995) and The Letters of Mina Harker (Hard Press, 1998),
as well as three chapbooks. She teaches creative writing at Mills College
and at San Francisco State.
March 9, 2001
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