Brenda Alcocer
Mexican poet, essayist and storyteller
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Chary Gumeta
Mexican poet and art promoter.
Mercedes Aguilar Montes de Oca
Mexican short story writer, chronicler, poet, journalist and reporter.
Carrie Williams Clifford
Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.
Josefina Vicens
Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights
Suni Paz
Suni Paz was one of the first artists to bring the nueva canción tradition—the “new song” music of the 1960s and 1970s—to North American audiences. For more than half of a century, her work as an American songwriter and performer of Latin American folk music has resonated as a cultural force, engaging people of all backgrounds and ages.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author
Esther Saunders
1800s African-American poet
Elizabeth Cary
1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator
Natasha Trethewey
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014