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Josefina Vicens

Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights

Ethel Richardson

In 1932, Ethel Richardson was the first Australian woman to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Victoria Earle Matthews

A writer, activist, club woman, and social worker, Victoria Earle Matthews dedicated herself to community uplift, civil rights, and helping others.

Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author

Artist, teacher, native-arts conservator, author and storyteller, Pauline Hillaire worked to carry on the heritage of Washington’s Lummi Nation and was one of the most knowledgeable living resources of the Northwest Coast’s arts and culture.

Judy Blume

American novelist and a best-selling young adult author, whose works include titles such as Superfudge (1980), Freckle Juice (1971), and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (1970).

Monique Wittig

An influential lesbian feminist and avant-garde writer, Monique Wittig (1935-2003) challenged the heteronormativity of early Second Wave French feminists and was an active novelist, philosopher, and activist.

Elizabeth Casey

Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney

American poet and writer, who published more than 20 books for girls