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Augusta Theodosia Drane
Intellectual ‘warrior nun’
Laura Redden Searing
Deaf American suffragist
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
American poet and writer, who published more than 20 books for girls
Ada Palmer Roberts
1800s American poet
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston chronicles the lives of Chinese Americans facing the ghosts of the past in present-day America.
Israa Merhi
Lebanese-Australian poet
Etel Adnan
Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist
Anna Margaret Ross
Irish writer