The opening reception of "I Will Clean the Closet, I Will Climb the Stairs" on Thursday, 19 September began at 6pm with a dialogue between Anne Buckwalter and Dodie Bellamy, San Francisco based novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor, known for her non-traditional use of sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation.
Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor, known for her non-traditional use of sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation. Bellamy teaches writing and literature at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She has been a member of the San Francisco literary avant-garde since the 1980s and is one of the originators of the New Narrative literary movement.
She has authored and co-authored numerous publications, including When the Sick Rule the World, her third collection of essays in 2015; the buddhist in 2011; Academonia in 2006; Pink Steam in 2005; The Letters Of Mina Harker in 2004; and Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997, an anthology edited with her late husband, writer, Kevin Killian. Her most recent book is Bee Reaved which was published in 2021.
Her reflections on the Occupy Oakland movement, The Beating of Our Hearts, was published as a chapbook in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
In 2018-19 she was the subject of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s On Our Mind program, a year-long series of public events, commissioned essays, and reading group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework.
In 2023 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction.
