Adrienne Su
American poet
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Amy Uyematsu
Award-winning poet and high school math teacher
Diana Goetsch
American poet and essayist
Ada Iddings Gale
American author and educator
Faustina Maratti
1700s Roman poet
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several works of poetry as well as “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals” and “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.”
Dorianne Laux
Laux is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke (2000). She is also co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997).
Winifred Letts
Irish novelist and playwright
Christine de Pizan
1300s and 1400s Italian-born French writer, philosopher, composer and feminist
Annie Bellew McCann
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.