November 21, 1995 Contact: Barbara McKenna (408/459-2495)

TWO EMINENT SAN FRANCISCO AUTHORS PRESENT PUBLIC READING AT UCSC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, two prominent San Francisco area poet/authors, will read from their works on Thursday, November 30, at 4 p.m. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Cowell College Provost's House. The talk is free and open to the public.

Bellamy is a leading figure in the "New Narrative" movement, a group of writers combining aspects of prose, theory, and poetry in their work. She is the author of Feminine Hijinx (New York: Hanuman Books, 1990), Answer (Buffalo: Leave Books, 1992), and, with the late Sam D'Allesandro, Real (Hoboken: Talisman House, 1994). Bellamy curates a reading series at the San Francisco bookstore Small Press Traffic, and, with Killian, co-edits the magazine Mirage/Periodical.

Bellamy's work has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Writing, Bomb, Front, Poetics Journal, 6ix, Zyzzyva, City Lights Review, High Risk, and The Art of Practice. She is currently working on the "The Letters of Mina Harker," a novel that brings the heroine of Bram Stoker's fin-de-siecle masterpiece Dracula forward into the acronymic age of MTV, HIV, ATM, VCR.

Kevin Killian is a poet, novelist, critic, and playwright. He has authored a number of works, including the novels Shy (Freedom, Calif.: Crossing Press, 1989) and Bedrooms Have Windows (New York: Amethyst Press, 1989), and two chapbooks, Desiree and Santa. His work has been widely anthologized in such collections as Best American Poetry 1988 (New York: Macmillan, 1988) and Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men (New York: Riverhead Books, 1995). He has written on the Bay Area art scene for Artforum, Artweek, and Framework.

With Lew Ellingham, Killian is writing a biography of the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-65). He is also working on a new novel, titled "Spreadeagle," and a long poem about Italian horror films and HIV in the U.S., called "Argento Series."

The talk is sponsored by The Living Writers Cluster of The Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC. For more information, call (408) 459-4899.

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