Dorothy Cottrell
Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here
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Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Dakotah Sioux/Hidatsa storyteller, historian and educator
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston chronicles the lives of Chinese Americans facing the ghosts of the past in present-day America.
Linda Goss
Linda Goss has blazed a trail in the Black Storytelling Tradition. She is called “Mama Linda” in honor of her mastery as a tradition bearer and premier contributor to the art of storytelling.
Dr Intan Paramaditha
Intan Paramaditha, Indonesian of Sumatran-Sundanese heritage, anticolonial feminist academic and writer based in Australia, is one of the co-founders of Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (The School of Women’s Thought).
Janie Hunter
African-American singer and storyteller
Amy Tan
By bravely exploring experiences of immigrant families, heritage, memories, and poignant struggles, Amy Tan’s writing makes sense of the present through the past and adds ground-breaking narrative to the diverse sweep of American life and literature.
Alice Adams
Alice Adams was the author of eleven novels and six collections of short stories, and was the recipient of an O. Henry Award for short fiction twenty-three times.
Anna Margaret Ross
Irish writer