Author Rita Bullwinkel
Debut author Rita Bullwinkel will be at The Book Catapult on Friday, May 25th at 7:00pm to discuss and sign her new collection of short stories, Belly Up. Rita will be in-conversation with local author & UCSD literature professor, Lily Hoang. Lily is the author most recently of the poetry collection A Bestiary. They will both read from their books, followed by a discussion. Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained. Rita Bullwinkel's writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney's. She lives in San Francisco. This is her first book.