Belly Up: Stories

“If you’re also reading spine-tingling horror to process our nerve-popping realities, Bullwinkel’s short story collection needs to be added to the top of your TBR list. Her short story on two teen girls who obsess over cannibalism gives a whole new meaning to girl dinner.” — Margaret Lin, Vanity Fair 

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Throughout these grotesque & tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given & what their bodies require to be sustained.

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, & carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque & tender stories, characters question the bodies they’ve been given & what their bodies require to be sustained.

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Rita Bullwinkel's writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, & Guernica. She is a recipient of grants & fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, & The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction & translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at large for McSweeney's. She lives in San Francisco & teaches at the California College of the Arts.