Dodie Bellamy

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 Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles.
Biography.
Bellamy was born Doris Jane Bellamy in 1951 in North Hammond, Indiana, and grew up in Indiana. She studied at Indiana University, graduating in 1973. She moved to San Francisco in the late 1970s, where Bellamy 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, which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling. Bellamy has stated that she draws inspiration from Conceptual art and writing practices, including cut-ups (invented by Brion Gysin and popularized by William S. Burroughs) 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.
Personal life.
Bellamy is bisexual. She was married to the bisexual writer Kevin Killian.