About the Author

Dodie Bellamy's writing focuses on sexuality, politics and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, the essay and poetry. In 2018-2019 she was the subject of On Our Mind, a yearlong series of public events, commissioned essays and reading-group meetings organized by CCA Wattis ICA. Her 2015 essay collection When the Sick Rule the World will be followed in 2021 by Bee Reaved, a new essay collection circling around grief, loss and abandonment. With Kevin Killian, she co-edited Writers Who Love Too Much- New Narrative 1977-1997. A compendium of essays on Bellamy's work, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind, was published in 2020 by Wattis ICA/Semiotext(e).

Reviews

Dodie Bellamy writes a brilliant gossip and if there's anything better than literature this is it. Writing that's pageless, so insinuating, above and below board, luscious deeply fucked up extravagant work. It looks good from here.--Eileen Myles

Dodie Bellamy's The Letters of Mina Harker gets rid of the question of fact versus fiction, while also being ravishing, not to mention totally aloof and needy at the same time.--The Village Voice

The Letters of Mina Harker unfurls like a red velvet carpet wilkomming you to a house of horrors. And the more you succumb, the more that red carpet begins to resemble a thick wet tongue, slicking you up for the ride down the hot narrow throat of postmodern narrative.--Traci Vogel, San Francisco Bay Guardian