[Los Angeles, CA]

Dodie Bellamy and Sara Wintz
June 18, 2011, 7:00 pm
at The PRB @ The Public School

The PRB presents…. Dodie Bellamy and Sara Wintz … Doors open at 7:00pm Event starts promptly at 8:00pm. $5 donation requested Dodie Bellamy has written a novel, The Letters of Mina Harker (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004); a collection of fiction, memoirs, and essays, Pink Steam (Suspect Thoughts, 2004); an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D’Allesandro, Real (Talisman House, 1994); and a cross-genre collection of pedagogical essays and fictions, Academonia (Krupskaya, 2006). Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons, 2002), a radical feminist revision of the "cut-up" pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Out/Look, Nest, and the San Diego Reader as well as numerous literary journals and web sites. In January, 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker’s clothes for White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with her partner Kevin Killian and three cats, Ted, Sylvia, and Quincy. With Kevin, she has edited over 150 issues of the literary/art zine Mirage #4/Period(ical) She is currently writer in residence at California College of the Arts. Sara Wintz’s writing has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Jacket, 6×6, and is forthcoming in The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetries. She co-edited INVISIBLY TIGHT INSTITUTIONAL OUTER FLANKS DUB (verb) GLORIOUS NATIONAL HI-VIOLENCE RESPONSE DREAM: New Writing from the US + UK with Ryan Dobran, Justin Katko, and Cristiana Baik in 2008. She is a graduate of Mills College and The Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies at Bard College. Facebook RSVP here.