Goodman, Melinda

Adjunct Lecturer
1234HW / Office Hour:
(212) 772-5077
mgoodm@hunter.cuny.edu

Melinda Goodman graduated with a concentration in Poetry Writing from Hampshire College in 1979. She received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University in 1987, and an MA from New York University in American and English Literature in 1992.

She has taught poetry workshops, creative writing, and literature at Hunter College since 1987. At Hunter College, she has served as: faculty advisor to several student literary magazines including Quack and Lorde; faculty advisor to the Audre Lorde Women's Poetry Center, a student organization; director of "Stations," a multi-media poetry theater and music production with a large cast consisting of student and community volunteers; and was co-Chair at Hunter College of the first GLBT Humanities Conference at CUNY.

She was also editor for three years of Conditions Magazine, the first lesbian literary magazine and the winner of the first Astraea Foundation Award for Lesbian Poets, 1992. The contest was judged by Audre Lorde and Jewelle Gomez. Her poems have been published in magazines and journals including Conditions, Sinister Wisdom, OutWeek, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, and others. Her poems also appear in GLBT anthologies edited by Elena Giorgiou, Michael Lassel; Joan Larkin, Carl Morse; Leslea Newman; Marge Piercy; Clare Coss and others.

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