Jeanne Sakata
Sakata has been a professional actress since the early 1980s and has performed in film, television, and theater. She made her playwriting debut with Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi in 2007.
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Amy Tan
By bravely exploring experiences of immigrant families, heritage, memories, and poignant struggles, Amy Tan’s writing makes sense of the present through the past and adds ground-breaking narrative to the diverse sweep of American life and literature.
Anna Deavere Smith
Through profound performances and plays that blend theater and journalism, she has informed our understanding of social issues and conveyed a range of disparate characters.
Alice Adams
Alice Adams was the author of eleven novels and six collections of short stories, and was the recipient of an O. Henry Award for short fiction twenty-three times.
Anna Margaret Ross
Irish writer
Lynda Barry
Barry invented the term “autobiofictionalography” to describe the hybrid nature of her multilayered, multimedia approach that incorporates collage and drawing in ink and watercolor.
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Active as a teacher and songwriter, she also began to write poetry and gained a reputation as one of America’s premier Yiddish poets.
Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth
Akuch is an academic researcher at Latrobe University, investigating the impact of family violence intervention orders on South-Sudanese Victorians.
Ada Norris
Dame Ada Norris was an Australian women’s rights activist and community worker. She was dedicated to raising the status of women.
Queen Ida Guillory
There have been several kings of zydeco over the years, but there has been only one Queen Ida.