Esther Saunders
1800s African-American poet
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Elizabeth Cary
1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator
Natasha Trethewey
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014
Augusta Theodosia Drane
Intellectual ‘warrior nun’
Laura Redden Searing
Deaf American suffragist
Enheduanna
Princess, priestess and the world’s first known author
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
American poet and writer, who published more than 20 books for girls
Ada Palmer Roberts
1800s American poet
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston chronicles the lives of Chinese Americans facing the ghosts of the past in present-day America.