Damien Belliveau is a 3rd-year PhD fiction fellow at the University of Southern California. As a creative writer he has two dissertation projects: one creative, the other critical. The creative project is an autobiographical coming-of-age story inspired by his time serving as a medic in the U.S. Army during the mid-90s. The critical project is tentatively entitled "Adapting the Slave Narrative in the Era of Black Lives Matter," where he explores the editorial strategies employed to translate literature to cinema. Damien's been a reality television editor for nearly two decades; his credits range from "The Real World" to "The Kardashians" to "Bill Nye Saves the World" to “Ball in the Family.” He's directed episodes of reality TV, but in the non-scripted space he prefers the power of the edit bay. As a serious amateur film photographer, he loves capturing 35mm images of the world as it is, through his lens, framed but not flawless.
A list of his motion picture credits can be found on IMDb under Damien Michael Belliveau.
PUBLICATIONS
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PROSE: “Three Deaths During Peace-Time” in Epiphany Magazine Summer 2022 Print Issue. Click HERE to purchase.
REVIEW: Ricardo Wilson’s “An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories” for The Los Angeles Review of Books
REVIEW: Chris Stuck’s “Give My Love to the Savages for The Los Angeles Review of Books
PROSE: “BLACK Out” in Epiphany Magazine
PROSE: “Birthday Boy” in The Spectacle
PROSE: “Haircut” in Mixed Mag
PROSE: “I’m Nigga” in Middleground Magazine
ESSAY: “Part 1: Dark Horse and Taku Horisuzu” in TTTism Magazine
ESSAY: “Unwrapping” for PEN America
POETRY: "I Think I Love You, Quarantine" in Kelp Journal
READINGS & EVENTS
November 5, 2021 - 4:30 PM
Fall Reading Series
Association of English Graduate Students
University of Southern California
Canopy 38, CPA Courtyard
October 27, 2020 - 5pm
Antioch University Los Angeles’ Literary Uprising
Location: ZOOM
July 28, 2020 - 7PM
PEN EVF Final Reading
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at The Hammer Museum
April 25, 2020 - 6:45PM
PEN EVF Mid-Program Reading
Location: ZOOM
February 1, 2020 - 2PM
UCLA Extension Writer’s Program: Progress Party
Location: Westwood Village, Los Angeles
January 28, 2020 - 8-10PM
PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship Welcome Party
Location: LACE 6522 Hollywood Blvd. 90028