Good Thunder Reading Series: Rita Bullwinkel (Sep 10)
Robin Becker
August 26, 2026
The Good Thunder Reading Series presents writer Rita Bullwinkel for a day of writing and discussion. Sept 10, 2026
Events
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Workshop
10 – 11 am CST
Memorial Library, 1st Floor
Minnesota State University, Mankato
3 – 3:50 pm CST
Ostrander Auditorium
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Books will be available for purchase.
Reading
7:30 – 8:15 pm CST
Carnegie Art Center
120 S. Broad St
Mankato
Books will be available for purchase.
Bullwinkel is the author of two books: Headshot (2024) and Belly Up (2018). Headshot was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize. It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. In 2025, Bullwinkel was awarded the Addison M. Metcalf Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which biennially honors a young American writer of great promise. She is also a 2022 recipient of a Whiting Award, the editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly, a contributing editor at NOON, the creator of Oral Florist, and the former deputy editor of The Believer. As an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco and the Picador Guest Professor of American Literature at Leipzig University in Germany, she taught courses on creative writing, zines, and the uses of invented and foreign languages as tools for world building. She was born in a suburb of San Francisco and raised across the Bay Area. She lives and works in San Francisco.