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Jane Harris

New Zealand writer, lecturer and spiritualist

Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran. Targeted by the state for her reporting and activism, she fled Iran in 2009, but continues to fight against censorship and other human rights abuses in the country.

Isabel Zapata

Mexican writer, translator and editor.

Susana Zaragoza

Mexican poet.

Susan Wood

1800s New Zealand writer whose work provides insight into the life, aspirations and social attitudes of one pioneer woman and into the popular literary tastes of the time.

María Luisa Zorrilla

Mexican writer, researcher and academic.

Lila Zellet

Mexican writer, visual and performing artist, and researcher.

Lydia Zárate

Mexican poet

Janet Mock

New York Times bestselling author Janet Mock continues to make history as a writer, director, and advocate. In 2018, Mock became the first transgender woman of color to write and direct an episode of television. Most recently, she signed a three-year multimillion-dollar contract with Netflix, making her the first openly transgender woman of color to sign a deal with a major content company.

Suzan-Lori Parks

One of the most successful playwrights in the United States. The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2002) and a pioneer of historically conscious and linguistically complex theater, her work is now taught at drama schools across the country.