Zaria Abreu Flores
Mexican writer, playwright and stage director.
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Denisse Zuñiga
Mexican writer and academic
Rachel de Queiroz
Rachel de Queiroz published over twenty-five novels, plays, crônicas and memoirs, among them O Quinze (The Fifteen) (1930), As três Marias (The Three Marias) (1939) and Dôra Doralina (1975).
Valerie Martínez
Martínez, a poet, translator, and playwright, is the author of three books of poetry.
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé is the author of several novels, numerous plays, books of short stories, and essays and articles on African and Caribbean literature.
Isabel Juárez Espinosa
Isabel Juárez Espinosa is a Maya Tseltal writer who has been writing since 1990, exploring social themes and issues, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the problems associated with urbanization, such as alcoholism and addiction.
Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa is the author of seventeen novels, fifteen poetry collections, four plays, two collections of short stories, and a screenplay.
Hana Shimozumi
As a young opera star, Shimozumi encountered frequent incredulity at her unaccented English from those who assumed she a Japanese national. During World War II she was sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center solely because of her Japanese ancestry.
Carlotta Monterey O’Neill
Once an actress with abandoned dreams of joining a convent, Carlotta Monterey O’Neill collaborated with her playwright husband Eugene O’Neill on some of his most famous work during their five years in “Tao House” in Danville, California.
Lorraine Hansberry
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life. an American artists. Her commitment to racial justice inspired countless more.