Because I am a poet, an essayist, a writer of creative non-fiction, and a theorist who emerged out of women’s liberation, my work is idiosyncratically interdisciplinary. I move into and out of the places where Women's Studies comes to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality theory; and where all of these meet Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. VIEW FULL CV (PDF)



EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1979: in English Literature. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. 1968: with Honors in English. University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

COURSES TAUGHT
WSP 400.1: Nation, Sex, Sexuality: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Life in the U.S.

CURRENT PROJECTS
The Only Danger, poems

The Struggle Continues, essays on class

Funny, a novel

How the Mockingbird Learned a New Song, a book-length essay

The End of Civilization As We Know It, a memoir

SAMPLE ESSAY
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.

The Money Machine: Selected Poems. New York: Belladonna* Books, 2003. 

Walking Back Up Depot Street: Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

Walking Back Up Depot Street: Poems. Reproduced in 20th Century American Poetry Electronic Database. Chadwyck-Healey.

S/HE. [Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1995.] Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 2004.Prose poetry.

Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991. Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books, 1991.

Political theory and autobiography.
Crime Against Nature. Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books, 1990. Poetry.

We Say We Love Each Other. [San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1985.] Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1992. Poetry.

The Sound Of One Fork. Durham, N.C.: Night Heron Press, 1981. Poetry

Co-authored books
With Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith. Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism And Racism. [New York: Long Haul Press, 1984.]  Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.

SELECTED HONORS
2005. Fellowship in Poetry, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

2004. The Dirt She Ate chosen Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, to

2004. Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Racism and Anti-Semitism (co authored with Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith) Chosen for the 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, by the Publishing Triangle

2002. The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, to o “Picking Up a Job Application”

2000. Walking Back Depot Street, Best Gay and Lesbian Book of the Year by ForeWord: Magazine of Independent Bookstores and Booksellers

1991. Crime Against Nature, American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award in Literature

1990. The Harriete Simpson Arnow Prize for Poetry, from The American Voice

1990. Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, from The National Endowment for the Arts

1989. Crime Against Nature, The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets

SELECTED CRITICAL STUDIES ON WORK : ARTICLES AND BOOKS
Wynn Cherry.“Hearing Me into Speech: Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina.” North Carolina Literary Review, Number 9 (2000). 82-102.

Mary Eagleton. “Working Across Difference: Examples from Minnie Bruce Pratt    and June Jordan.” Ed. Elizabeth Russell. Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities. Rodofi: Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2002.

Caren Jane Kaplan. “Deterritorializations: the Rewriting of Home and Exile in Western Feminist Discourse.” Defining Travel. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. 190-99.

Laura Levitt. “Becoming an American Jewish Feminist.” Horizons in Feminist Theology. Eds.Rebecca S. Chopp and Sheila Greeve Davaney. Minneapolis:Fortress Press, 1997. 154-164.

Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. “Feminist Politics: What’s Home Gotto Do With It?” Feminist Studies, Critical Studies. Ed. by Teresa de Lauretis.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 191-212.

Biddy Martin. “Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference(s).” Women,Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. Eds. by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Tara McPherson. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Place and Gender in the South. Durham:  Duke University Press, 2002.

Tamara M. Powell, “Look What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary Collective.” North Carolina Literary Review, Number 9 (2000). 82-102.

Adrienne Rich. "Sliding Stone from the Cave's Mouth." The American Poetry Review. Volume 19, No. 5 (Sept-Oct 1990).

__________. “The Transgressor Mother.” What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993. 145-163.

Kim Marie Whitehead. “Minnie Bruce Pratt,” A Biographical Guide to Alabama Literature. Eds. Bert Hitchcock and Elaine Hughes. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.

__________. “Walking from the Tombigbee: An Introduction to the Poetry ofMinnie Bruce Pratt.” Southern Changes, Autumn 1994.