Margaret Cruikshank was one of the first American academics to be out during a time when gay rights were an unfamiliar concept.
16 Facts About Margaret Cruikshank
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Margaret Louise Cruikshank was born in Duluth, Minnesota on April 26,1940.
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Margaret Cruikshank's parents are George Patrick Cruikshank and Louise Marie Wimmer.
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Margaret Cruikshank attended The College of St Scholastica, obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1962.
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Margaret Cruikshank says she started writing during her college years.
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Margaret Cruikshank says that being publicly out as a lesbian and moving to California in the mid-70s shaped her writing.
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Margaret Cruikshank began writing on lesbian topics in 1975, writing under her own name and various pseudonyms.
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Margaret Cruikshank was published in a wide variety of publications like Gay Community News, Motheroot Journal, The Radical Teacher, Focus, Journal of Homosexuality and The Advocate.
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Also at City College of San Francisco, Margaret Cruikshank taught an introductory women's studies course and lesbian and gay literature.
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Margaret Cruikshank later taught courses on aging and women.
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Margaret Cruikshank taught at CCSF until her move to Maine in 1997.
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Margaret Cruikshank is most well-known for editing three major lesbian anthologies.
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In 1984, Margaret Cruikshank published her third anthology, New Lesbian Writing, which combines fiction and nonfiction writing from lesbian authors worldwide.
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Margaret Cruikshank moved to Maine in 1997, and she still resides there today.
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Margaret Cruikshank continues as a faculty associate at The Maine Center on Aging.
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Margaret Cruikshank is a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowship senior specialist awards to conduct seminars and lectures on women and aging.