Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up (forthcoming from A Strange Object, May 2018), which she edited and revised at MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in TinHouse, VICE, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, The Drue Heinz Foundation, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Her story “Passing” was a finalist for The Conium Review’s Innovative Short Fiction Prize judged by Amelia Gray. Her story “In the South the Sand Winds are Our Greatest Enemy” was selected by Joyland Magazine as one of their top five favorite stories published in 2015. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She lives in San Francisco.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Rita Bullwinkel
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
ritabullwinkel.com
Studios
Star
Rita Bullwinkel worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…