Elizabeth Bishop
U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1949-1950
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Rosa María Elizondo
Mexican painter, poet, photographer, media and conceptual artist.
Marie Under
From 1945 to 1974, Estonian poet Marie Under was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature thirty times.
Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni was poet laureate of Arkansas from 1953 to 1970.
Dr Chisaraokwu Asomugha
Chisaraokwu Asomugha is a Los Angeles-based Igbo American transdisciplinary poet, writer, visual/performance artist, scholar, and health futurist
Dolores Castro
Mexcian novelist and poet
Zora Cross
Australian writer and actor
Bobbi Sykes
Forced out of school early by racism, she became a nurse, before working as a journalist. She helped to found the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, among many other entities. In the early 1970s, as a prominent activist for Aboriginal rights, Sykes was invited to speak on racism, rights and colonialism in countries including the UK, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Olympia Fulvia Morata
Olympia Fulvia Morata was a 1500s Italian scholar, poet, and writer who sought to advance the Protestant Reformation in Italy.
Argula von Grumbach
Argula von Grumbach was a Bavarian theologian, writer, and reformer, who became a controversial figure after her 1523 letter To the University of Ingolstadt protesting the arrest of a young scholar for teaching Lutheran precepts.