Victoria Aveyard
Author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.
Dr Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.
Priyanka Champaneri
Priyanka Champaneri’s debut novel The City of Good Death won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for India’s Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, and named one of NPR’s 2021 Books We Love.
S Isabel Choi
Korea-born American lawyer and writer
Harper Lee
Harper Lee is recognized for her contribution to American literature with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
American poet and fiction author
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.
Holly Iglesias
Holly Iglesias is a poet, translator, and author of poetry collections Angles of Approach (White Pine Press, 2010) and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press, 2008).
Brigitte Muir
In 1997, Brigitte Muir was the first Australian woman to climb Mt Everest.