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Eleanor Ross Taylor

Eleanor Ross Taylor was a poet, short-fiction author, and literary critic.

Ruby Altizer Roberts is the author of two collections of poetry, three memoirs, a children’s book, and a genealogy. She was named Virginia’s first female poet laureate in 1950 and, until 1994, was the only woman to have held the post.

Virginia Moore

Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”

Margaret Ward Morland

Margaret Ward Morland was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998 and was an accomplished educator and poet.

Annis Boudinot Stockton

A Revolutionary Era patriot and poet, Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) transformed her Princeton estate of Morven into the center of culture and influence for the Princeton, New Jersey area. It has continued to occupy this role for over 200 years.

Ellen Clementine Howarth

1800s American poet

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.

Dr Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

American poet and fiction author

Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.