Elly Bulkin

Bulkin emerged in the literary scene during the 1970s as a proud, Jewish lesbian. She regularly reviews women's poetry, but is most well-known for editing and co-editing many lesbian anthologies. She co-edited two anthologies with Joan Larkin, the first of which came out in 1975, titled Amazon Poetry: An Anthology of Lesbian Poetry. The second was from 1981 with Persephone Press, titled Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology. ^[4][1] Also in 1981, Bulkin edited Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology.^[5]

Bulkin was a founding editor of two nationally distributed periodicals: Conditions, a magazine of writing by women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians, and Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends.^[3][6] Bulkin co-founded Conditions with three fellow feminist writers in Brooklyn in 1976: Rima Shore, Irena Klepfisz, and Jan Clausen.^[7]

She has published articles on racism and writing; heterosexism and women’s studies; lesbian poetry; and other topics. Bulkin's articles on lesbian poetry cover both historical context and analysis^[8] as well as pedagogical approaches.^[9][10] She is co-author, with Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith, of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984) and, with Donna Nevel, of Islamophobia & Israel (2013).^[3][11]

• (ed. with Joan Larkin) Amazon Poetry: An anthology of Lesbian Poetry, 1975
• (ed.) Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology, 1981
• (ed. with Joan Larkin) Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology, 1981
• (ed. with Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith) Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Antisemitism and Racism, 1984^[11]
• Enter password, recovery : re-enter password, 1990^[12]
• (with Donna Nevel) Islamophobia & Israel (2014)^[13]