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.

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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.

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Miriam Tlali

The first Black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel in 1975, most of her writing was banned by the South African apartheid regime.

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