Career
In 2011, Calloway first gained attention online by posting various short-form essays and blog posts regarding sexuality, including a piece titled "Adrien Brody" which was published on literary provocateur Tao Lin"s website Muumuu House website. The story told of the protagonist"s affair with what appeared to be the editor of a famous New York magazine. She has since written a follow up piece titled "Jeremy Lin." She was described as both a "fame whore" and a staple of alternative literature by The New York Observer in 2012. what purpose did i serve in your life? Her first book, what purpose did i serve in your life? was published by Tyrant Books and generated controversy amongst the literary community.
A portion of the volume recounts the author"s romantic relationship with a married journalist (whose name she changed to "Adrien Brody" for privacy reasons) and is reportedly based on an actual relationship with a prominent American writer
Daniel Doctorate"Addario of Salon said the article upon which the book was based "sent shockwaves through the publishing industry." Lisa Carver of VICE noted her critics misogynistic leanings and compared her to Ernest Hemingway. Elizabeth Spiers of The New York Observer called the book "boring," writing that it "reads like a dirty YA novel." Stephen Marche of Esquire described Calloway as belonging to an ""Asperger"s style" of literature, the mode of a small New York-based coterie of writers who specialize in disaffection and disconnection." Jacob M. Appel at Quarterly Conversation compared Calloway to Jane Austen"s Marianne Dashwood and George Eliot"s Dorothea Brooke.
Calloway"s novel currently holds a 3.3 out of 5 rating on Amazon.com, based on 24 reviews. Personal Calloway grew up in Japan.
She currently lives in San Francisco.
