Melinda Goodman

Melinda Susan Goodman has been an adjunct professor at Hunter College since 1987 when she was chosen by Audre Lorde to take over Lorde’s poetry workshops. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and a MA in American Literature from New York University. Goodman was a member of the editorial collective of Conditions, the first international lesbian literary journal. Her poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction have received awards from the Astraea Foundation, the Key West Literary Seminar, the New York Foundation on the Arts, the Key West Literary Seminar, and the Los Angeles Review.

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