Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy
Irish Dominican nun, educator, and poet
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Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Andalusian poet in the 1000s CE
Ingrid Jonker
South African poet
Chelsea Rathburn
American author of award-winning poetry collections, whose work is marked by quiet intensity and explores relationships between form and content, and between the self and the world.
María Cegarra Salcedo
The woman considered to be Spain’s first female to graduate in chemistry was María Cegarra Salcedo (1899-1993) but she is better known for her later career as a poet.
Marlise Joubert
South African writer, editor and artist
Nise Bulelwa Malange
South African writer, documentary filmmaker, artist and activist
Mary Reid
Irish republican and feminist
Gcina Mhlophe
South African storyteller (writer, performer, director)
Nontsizi Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929.