Nuar Alsadir
Nuar Alsadir, a poet and psychoanalyst, is the author of “Fourth Person Singular,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton (1926-2010) was a prolific poet, author of children’s literature, and educator.
Nikki Giovanni
Author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including “Black Feeling, Black Talk,” “Blues: For All the Changes” and “Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose”
Laetitia Pilkington
1700s Irish writer
Mary Gilmore
In 1928, poet Dame Mary Gilmore founded the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Prolific writer of biographical studies, poetry, and a temperance novel.
Mary Spear Tiernan
Movelist, essayist, and occasional poet who wrote primarily about central Virginia before and during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Rosemary Daniell
A writer and a teacher of writing, Rosemary Daniell is known for her provocative poems and memoirs.
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Eleanor Ross Taylor was a poet, short-fiction author, and literary critic.
Ruby Altizer Roberts
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.