Maria Sanford
One of the first female professors in the United States, Maria Sanford was an English professor at the University of Minnesota for nearly thirty years.
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Meridel Le Sueur
For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.
Dr Paulina Alcocer
Mexican researcher and professor
Flor Aguilera
Mexican poet and storyteller.
Ethel L Voynich
Irish novelist, translator, and composer
Jessie Redmon Fauset
As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.
Coral Aguirre
Argentine storyteller who became a Mexican citizen, playwright, theater director, musician, and professor of literature and acting at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL)
Dr Elizabeth Vivero
Mexican researcher, academic and writer
Marie-Célie Agnant
Author of poetry, novels and novellas, she is also a talented storyteller and author of young adult and children’s books.
Abby Morton Diaz
American industrial reformer