Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
American poet and fiction author
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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.
Holly Iglesias
Holly Iglesias is a poet, translator, and author of poetry collections Angles of Approach (White Pine Press, 2010) and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press, 2008).
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a leading advocate for land rights and reconciliation, and in 1964 published the first modern poetry book by an Aboriginal Australian woman.
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Julia Pardoe
1800s UK author
Lisa Bellear
Lisa Bellear’s work as an artist, poet, photographer, broadcaster, activist and academic continues to inspire change and educate.
Jacqueline Woodson
Popular writer of books for young people
Charlotte Brooke
Irish poet, dramatist, and pioneer in the introduction of Irish culture to the English reader
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is a fiction writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist who has lived in Atlanta since 1969. In her writing, Cleage draws on her experiences as an activist for AIDS and women’s rights, and she cites the rhythms of Black life as her muse.