Minnie Bruce Pratt, a member of the graduate faculty at the Union Institute and University, is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Crime Against Nature, chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Walking Back Up Depot Street, ForeWord Magazine's Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year.

Hard-edged and provocative. . . . Never sentimental or histrionic, Pratt's poems deal directly and explicitly with issues of anger, shame, sexuality, and injustice.