Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, poet, critic and cultural journalist. Her mixed genre collection, Academonia, was published in 2006 by Krupskaya. Her infamous epistolary vampire novel The Letters of Mina Harker was reprinted in 2004 by the University of Wisconsin Press, with an introduction by Dennis Cooper. Also in 2004, Suspect Thoughts printed Pink Steam, her collection of fiction, memoir, and memoiresque essays. Bellamy co-authored an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D'Allesandro, Real. Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto (Ugly Duckling, 2008) “Best Book Under 30 Pages” for 2009. Cunt-Ups, a radical feminist revision of the “cut-up” pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. She also has received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature. Her work has appeared in, among others, the anthologies Bottoms Up, Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, Best American Erotica 2001, High Risk, The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets, A Poetics of Criticism, The New Fuck You, Primary Trouble, and Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women.

Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the Chicago Review, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Out/Look, The San Diego Reader, Nest, as well as numerous small press literary journals. Winter/Spring 2010 she was a guest blogger for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has taught creative writing at California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz, University of San Francisco, Naropa University, San Francisco State, and CalArts. With Kevin Killian, she has edited over 150 issues of the literary/art zine Mirage #4/Period(ical).