Dodie Bellamy

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. She was a core member of The Feminist Writers’ Guild. 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).

Published works

Story, novels, and poetry collections

Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam d'Allesandro Fat Chance Cunt-Ups The Letters of Mina Harker Pink Steam Academonia Barf Manifesto Cunt Norton The Beating of Our Hearts The TV Sutras When the Sick Rule the World The Buddhist Bee Reaved

Artist monographs

B. Wurtz: Farm 5

Contributing writer or editor in essay collections

a queer anthology of healing Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977–1997 Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism Volume 1 As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: a Decade of War 2001–2011 Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything Feminine Hijinx High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories The New Fuck You: Adventures In Lesbian Reading Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person