Rita Bullwinkel is an American author who is known for her 2024 debut novel Headshot, which was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.[1] She is also the author of the 2018 collection of short stories Belly Up, which was awarded a Whiting Award in 2022.[2][3]
Bullwinkle is a professor at the University of San Francisco where she teaches creative writing. Her other works have appeared in literary journals including The White Review, BOMB, NOON and Guernica.[4] In 2024, Bullwinkel became the editor of the literary magazine McSweeney's Quarterly after having served an editor at large since 2016.[5]