Maureen Brady
Maureen Brady (born June 7, 1943) is an American writer, editor and educator. She is best known for her novels "Ginger's Fire", "Folly", and "Give Me Your Good Ear". She currently lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, NY. Personal life. Brady was born on June 7, 1943 in Mount Vernon, New York and spent her adolescence in Florida. She practised as a physical therapist and also taught physical therapy at Russell Sage College, Troy, New York. In 1977, she attended a New School workshop in writing which gave her the confidence to begin writing . She currently lives in New York with her partner, Martha. Career. In 1982, she wrote the novel "Folly" out of a desire to cast a woman who was an outsider in her community splintered by racism, homophobia, patriarchy and capitalism as a hero. The novel focuses on a workers strike of North Carolina garment workers with various sub-plots about the diverse set of characters lives in a segregated town. The novel has been described as "pro-labor, feminist, anti-racist, queer positive." In 1994, it was reprinted as a classic by The Feminist Press. 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 oldest lesbian feminist publishers in the world, Spinsters Ink is widely regarded as a pioneering feminist institution. Brady has served as the editor of many books, including "The Cancer Journals" by Audre Lorde, Spinsters Ink (1980), and "The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire: Poetry and  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." Curated by Harmony Hammond, the show was the first lesbian-identified art exhibition 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 and the Peripatetic Writing Workshop. Brady serves as the board president of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Maureen Brady Maureen