Christine de Pizan
1300s and 1400s Italian-born French writer, philosopher, composer and feminist
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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.
Judith Arundell Wright
Judith Wright wrote on many issues including nature conservation and the rights of indigenous people. She fought to save the Great Barrier Reef from mining and oil drilling and to establish the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Dorothea MacKellar
Australian poet and contributor to the genre of nationalist verse
Susanna Centlivre
British actor, poet and comedy playwright
Addie C Strong Engle
1800s American author, poet and publisher
Xochiqueztal Candelaria
American poet
Camille Dungy
American ecopoet, essayist, and two-time NEA literature Fellow
Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed is the author of “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” and “Internment.”
Safiya Sinclair
Safiya Sinclair is the author of “How to Say Babylon: A Memoir” and the poetry collection “Cannibal.”