Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt (b. September 12, 1946 in Selma, Alabama) is an American poet educator, and essayist

Life
Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in Centreville, Alabama. She graduated with an honors B.A. from the University of Alabama (1968) and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of North Carolina (1979). She is a Professor of Writing and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University where she was invited to help develop the university’s first Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Study Program. She emerged out of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s and has written extensively about race, class, gender and sexual theory. Pratt, along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, received a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett award from the Fund for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized by political persecution." Pratt, Chrystos and Lorde were chosen because their experience as "a target of right-wing and fundamentalist forces during the recent attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts." Her political affiliations include the International Action Center, the National Women's Fightback Network, and the National Writers Union. She is a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. Pratt's partner is author and activist Leslie Feinberg.

Recognition

 * 2005. Fellowship in Poetry, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
 * 2003. Lambda Literary Award for
 * 2002. The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, \"Picking Up a Job Application\"
 * 1999. Independent Booksellers Award for
 * 1991. American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award in Literature for
 * 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. The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets for

Publications

 * ASIN: B000HF76DW
 * Chosen for the 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, by the Publishing Triangle, 2004.
 * American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award in Literature 1991, The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, 1989.
 * Best Gay and Lesbian Book of the Year by ForeWord: Magazine of Independent Bookstores and Booksellers, 2000.
 * ASIN: B0006S92LE
 * Chosen Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, 2003.
 * Best Gay and Lesbian Book of the Year by ForeWord: Magazine of Independent Bookstores and Booksellers, 2000.
 * ASIN: B0006S92LE
 * Chosen Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, 2003.