Luisa Carnés
Spanish-Mexican playwright and novelist
Spanish-Mexican playwright and novelist
Mexican storyteller who has taught workshops for the UAM and Conaculta and written educational radio scripts; she has also been in charge of editing, editorial reviews, and served as Head of Style Correction at FONCA (1999-2000).
Mexican singer-songwriter and writer. Founding member of the international collective Las Poetas del Megáfono (The Poets of the Megaphone)
Mexican poet, novelist and short story writer
1800s and 1900s Canadian writer
The radical novels that Grace Lumpkin wrote in the 1930s, To Make My Bread and A Sign for Cain, represent two of the best examples of literary social realism produced in response to the economic and social turmoil of the Great Depression in the U.S.
Since 1994 Janice Daugharty has published a volume of short fiction, six novels, and numerous short stories and essays.
Ruta Sepetys is an internationally-acclaimed bestselling author of historical fiction published in over 60 countries and 40 languages.
Author best known for her 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees, which has sold over 8 million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages.
She entertained her grandchildren with nursery rhymes. Her son-in-law reportedly published them as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose’s Melodies.