Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt (born September 12, 1946 in Selma , Alabama ) is an American university teacher, LGBT activist, author and poet.

Pratt was born in Selma. She grew up in Centerville , Alabama and attended the University of Alabama , where she received her BA in 1968 . In 1979 she received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of North Carolina . Pratt received a position as professor at Syracuse University . She helped develop the university's LGBT study program there. In the 1970s she was involved in the women's movement and in the 1980s she also wrote on topics such as race , class struggle , queer theory and sexual identity . Pratt, along with the lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, received the Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award from the Fund for Free Expression (a foundation that supports writers who have been victims of political oppression). Pratt, Chrystos and Lorde were chosen because they were a target by right-wing and fundamentalist forces in previous attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts . Pratt also gave her political support to the International Action Center , the National Women's Fightback Network, and the National Writers Union . Pratt writes for Workers World newspaper . Pratt's life partner was the author and LGBT activist Leslie Feinberg until her death .

Works

• The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems . University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2003, ISBN 0-8229-5826-0 . Chosen Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, 2003
• The Money Machine: Selected Poems . Belladonna * Books, New York 2003.
• Walking Back Up Depot Street: Poems . University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1999, ISBN 0-8229-4096-5 . Best Gay and Lesbian Book of the Year by ForeWord: Magazine of Independent Bookstores and Booksellers , 2000
• S / HE . Firebrand Books, Ithaca, NY 1995, ISBN 1-55583-888-X .
• We Say We Love Each Other . Spinsters / Aunt Lute, San Francisco 1985, ISBN 1-56341-023-0 .
• Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 . Firebrand Books, Ithaca, NY. 1991, ISBN 1-56341-006-0 .
• Crime Against Nature . Firebrand Books, Ithaca, NY. 1990, ISBN 0-932379-73-7 . American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award in Literature 1991, The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, 1989
• , Elly Bulkin , Barbara Smith Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism And Racism . Long Haul Press, New York 1984, ISBN 0-932379-53-2 . Chosen for the 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, by Publishing Triangle, 2004
• The Sound Of One Fork . Night Heron Press, Durham, NC 1981.

Awards and honors

• The Lamont Poetry Selection by The Academy of American Poets for Crime Against Nature . , 1989
• Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry , from The National Endowment for the Arts , 1990
• The Harriete Simpson Arnow Prize for Poetry, from The American Voice , 1990
• American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award in Literature for Crime Against Nature . , 1991
• Independent Booksellers Award for Walking Back Up Depot Street . , 1999
• The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award , Poetry Society of America , "Picking Up a Job Application," 2002
• Lambda Literary Award for The Dirt She Ate . , 2003
• Fellowship in Poetry , New Jersey State Council on the Arts , 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linda Rapp: Pratt, Minnie Bruce. ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: glbtq.com. 2004. 

Web links

• Minnie Bruce Pratt, “ When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of? ” Southern Spaces
• Minnie Bruce Pratt, " No Place ," Southern Spaces
• Official website of Pratt
• Website at Syracuse University