Writer Archives - Page 79 of 260

Anna Lapera

A Pushcart Prize nominee, she teaches middle school by day and writes stories about spunky kids stepping into their power in the early hours of the morning.

Annabelle Tometich

Annabelle Tometich spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida.

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is a journalist and the author of several science fiction and nonfiction books, including the national bestseller “Four Lost Cities.”

African-American southern ecopoet. Her debut collection, Black Pastoral, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2024 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize and the Library of Virginia Prize in Poetry.

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton is one of country music’s most creative singer-songwriters.

Adrienne Su

American poet

Amy Uyematsu

Award-winning poet and high school math teacher

Angeline Boulley

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Kathrine Switzer

In 1967, Katherine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor. During the race, race manager Jock Semple tried to stop Switzer from running but was unsuccessful in his attempt and she continued on finishing with a time of 4:20:00.