Maureen Brady

 Brady has received awards and fellowships from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York State Creative Arts Public Service program of the New York State Council on the Arts, the Briarcombe Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.In 1978, Brady founded the lesbian feminist publishing company Spinsters Ink with Judith McDaniel.As one of the longest-running lesbian feminist publishing houses in the world, Spinsters Ink is widely thought of as an innovative feminist institution.Brady has been editor for a variety of books, including The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, Spinsters Ink (1980), and The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire: Poetry as well as Prose by Kitty Tsui, Spinsters Ink (1983).A page from one of Brady's manuscripts was included in "Statements from Lesbian Artists", which accompanied the 1978 exhibition A Lesbian Show. The show was curated by Harmony Hammond, the show was the first lesbian-identified art exhibit in the United States.Brady has taught writing at Skidmore College, Bard College, and The Resource Center for Accessible Living in Kingston, NY. She currently teaches creative writing at New York University, the New York Writers Workshop