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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”

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 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.”