1690s

Susanna Wright (04 aug 1697 – 01 dec 1784 | Lancashire UK – Wright’s Ferry PA) poet, pundit, author, pioneer, translator, landowner, entrepreneur, multi-linguist, first American female silk farmer / producer / exporter

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1700s

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1710s

Martha Wadsworth Brewster (01 apr 1710 – c. 1757 | Lebanon CT – Lebanon CT) poet, writer

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1720s

Patience Lovell Wright (09 feb 1725 – 23 mar 1786 | Oyster Bay NY – London UK) poet, painter, wax sculptor, first recognized US female sculptor, aka The Promethean Modeler, American Revolutionary War political spy / activist

Hannah Griffitts (1727-1817 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, Quaker, championed colonists’ resistance during run-up to American Revolution

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1730s

Annis Boudinot Stockton (01 jul 1736 – 06 feb 1801 | Darby PA – Fieldsboro NJ) poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, political activist, aka Duchess of Morven, one of first women published in the Thirteen Colonies, sole female member of secret pro-revolutionary American Whig Society

Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (03 feb 1737 – 23 feb 1801 | Horsham PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, commonplace book writer

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1740s

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1750s

Judith Sargent Murray (05 may 1751 – 09 jun 1820 | Gloucester MA – Natchez MS) poet, essayist, feminist, playwright, letter writer, pioneering women’s rights advocate

Ann Eliza Schuyler Bleecker (11 oct 1752 – 23 nov 1783 | New York, Colony of New York – Albany NY) poet, short story writer, letter correspondent

Phillis Wheatley (08 may 1753 – 05 dec 1784 | Gambia or Senegal AF – Boston MA) poet, letter correspondent, first female African-American published author

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (17 aug 1759 – 14 may 1846 | Boston MA – Quincy MA) poet, socialite, artist’s model, pen name: Philenia

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1760s

Sarah Ewing Hall (30 oct 1761 – 08 apr 1830 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Christian literature poet, educator, essayist, Bible translator and commentator

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1770s

Margaretta Bleecker Faugères (11 oct 1771 – 09 jan 1801 | New York, Colony of New York – Brooklyn NY) poet, editor, author, playwright, political activist

Phebe Folger Coleman (10 nov 1771 – 05 feb 1857 | Nantucket MA – Nantucket MA) poet, diarist, teacher, watercolorist, commonplace book author / illustrator

Rebecca Hammond Laird (07 mar 1772 – 28 sep 1855 | New Bedford MA – Madison IN) poet, teacher, aka the first poet in Indiana

Mary Moody Emerson (23 aug 1774 – 01 may 1863 | Concord MA – Concord MA) poet, author, literary family member, mentor to her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charity Bryant (22 may 1777 – 06 oct 1851 | North Bridgewater MA – Weybridge VT) poet, teacher, focus on acrostic poetry, Boston marriage partner with Sylvia Drake

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1780s

Emma Hart Willard (23 feb 1787 – 15 apr 1870 | Berlin CT – Troy NY) poet, author, educator, founded Troy Female Seminary

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (24 oct 1788 – 30 apr 1879 | Newport NH – Philadelphia PA) poet, editor, author, letter correspondent, aka Mother of Thanksgiving, author of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ nursery rhyme, completed Bunker Hill Monument project

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1790s

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (01 sep 1791 – 10 jun 1865 | Norwich CT – Hartford CT) poet, critic, children’s writer, girls’ school founder, autobiographical author, aka The Sweet Singer of Hartford

Floride Bonneau Calhoun (15 feb 1792 – 25 jul 1866 | Charleston SC – Pendleton SC) poet, plantation mistress, US Vice-Presidential Second Lady, social-political Petticoat Affair member

Caroline Howard Gilman (08 oct 1794 – 15 sep 1888 | Boston MA – Washington DC) poet, editor, author, publisher

Penina Moise (23 apr 1797 – 13 sep 1880 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, hymnist

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1800s

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (31 jan 1800 – 22 may 1842 | Sault Ste Marie MI – Dundas ON) Scots-Irish-Ojibwe poet, writer, pioneer, translator, aka Bamewawagezhikaquay [Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky]

Sarah Helen Whitman (19 jan 1803 – 27 jun 1878 | Providence RI – Providence RI) poet, author, essayist, Spiritualist, literary figure, transcendentalist

Susanna Strickland Moodie (06 dec 1803 – 08 apr 1885 | Bungay UK – Toronto ON) English-Canadian poet, artist, novelist, memoirist, children’s author

Eliza Roxcy Smith Snow Young (21 jan 1804 – 05 dec 1887 | Becket MA – Salt Lake City UT) poet, Mormon historian, married to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Lorenzo Snow

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (12 aug 1806 – 16 nov 1893 | North Yarmouth ME – Blue Point NY) poet, editor, lecturer, fiction writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist

Mary Elizabeth Moore Hewitt (20 mar 1807 – 17 sep 1884 | Malden MA – Chicago IL) poet, editor

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (24 dec 1807 – 02 nov 1834 | Centre DE – Tecumseh MI) poet, writer, children’s anti-slavery author, first US female writer to focus on abolition of slavery as her principal theme

Lucretia Maria Davidson (27 sep 1808 – 27 aug 1825 | Plattsburgh NY – Plattsburgh NY) short-lived poet

Frances Dana Barker Gage (12 oct 1808 – 10 nov 1884 | Marietta OH – Greenwich CT) poet, author, activist, reformer, abolitionist

Catherine Stratton Ladd (28 oct 1809 – 30 jan 1899 | Richmond VA – Buckhead SC) poet, educator, essayist, playwright, Civil War nurse, early Confederate flag designer

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1810s 

Ann Sophia Winterbotham Stephens (30 mar 1810 – 20 aug 1886 | Derby CT – Newport RI) poet, author, novelist, essayist, magazine editor and founder

Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (03 dec 1810 – 23 nov 1879 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, author, suffragist, playwright, translator, political essayist

Frances [Fanny] Sargent Locke Osgood (18 jun 1811 – 12 may 1850 | Boston MA – New York NY) poet, author, letter correspondent

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (14 jun 1811 – 01 jul 1896 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, abolitionist, social reformer

Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (01 nov 1811 – 04 jan 1852 | Whitestown NY – Whitestown NY) poet, author, satirist, humorist

Ellen Sturgis Hooper (17 feb 1812 – 03 nov 1848 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, Transcendentalist

Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer (10 dec 1812 – 19 may 1894 | Newton MA – Somerville MA) poet, author, essayist, translator, social activist, short fiction writer, Universalist’s women’s and children’s societies advocate

Sarah Tittle Bolton (18 dec 1814 – 05 aug 1893 | Newport KY – Indianapolis IN) poet, author, women’s / property rights activist, aka Indiana’s Pioneer Poet

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta  (11 nov 1815 – 23 mar 1891 | Bennington VT – New York NY) poet, critic, writer, teacher, socialite, literary circle figure, Barnard College co-founder, posthumous memoirist

Caroline Crane Marsh (01 dec 1816 – 27 oct 1901 | Berkley MA – Scarsdale NY) poet, author, translator, women’s rights activist

Emily Chubbuck Judson (22 aug 1817 – 01 jun 1854 | Eaton NY – Hamilton NY) poet, writer, memoirist, missionary, aka Fanny Forester

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (18 oct 1818 – 03 jun 1877 | Sodus Point NY – New York NY) poet, author, editor, historian, translator, first to record lives of American Revolutionary women

[Susan] Helen Aldrich DeKroyft (29 oct 1818 – 25 oct 1915 | Rochester NY – Dansville NY) poet, adult-onset blindness, aka The Blind Woman Poet

Amelia Ball Coppuck Welby (03 feb 1819 – 03 may 1852 | St Michael’s MD – Louisville KY) poet

Ann Eliza Brainerd Smith (07 oct 1819 – 06 jan 1909 | St Albans VT – St Albans VT) poet, author, novelist, essayist, memoirist, honorary lieutenant colonel in Vermont Militia

Julia Ward Howe (27 may 1819 – 17 oct 1910 | New York NY – Portsmouth RI) poet, hymnist, suffragist, abolitionist, social activist

Elizabeth Johns Neall Gay (07 nov 1819 – 09 dec 1907 | Hingham MA – Hingham MA) poet, writer, Quaker, pacifist, abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, delegate to first World Anti-Slavery Convention [1840]

Madeline DeFrees (18 nov 1919 – 11 nov 2015 | Ontario OR – Portland OR) poet, professor, nonfiction author, former religious sister

Nancy Cummings Thayer Andrews de Forêt (20 dec 1919 – 11 aug 2006 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, artist, writer, literary family member

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1820s

Frances Jane [Fanny] Crosby van Alstyne (24 mar 1820 – 12 feb 1915 | Brewster NY – Bridgeport CT) poet, lyricist, composer, blind activist, mission worker, autobiographical author

Alice Cary (26 apr 1820 – 12 feb 1871 | Mount Healthy OH – New York NY) poet, author, novelist, suffragist, first president of Sorosis

Margaret Junkin Preston (19 may 1820 – 28 mar 1897 | Milton PA – Baltimore MD) poet, essayist, memoirist, Confederate, blind later in life

Ella Elvira Gibson (08 may 1821 – 08 mar 1901 | Winchendon MA – Barre MA) poet, editor, educator, essayist, Freethinker, pamphleteer, ordained minister, first female US Army chaplain

Maria White Lowell (08 jul 1821 – 27 oct 1853 | Watertown MA – Cambridge MA) poet, reformer, translator, abolitionist, temperance activist, women’s rights advocate, letter correspondent, literary family member, married to poet James Russell Lowell

Mary Baker Eddy (16 jul 1821 – 03 dec 1910 | Bow NH – Chestnut Hill MA) poet, author, spiritual leader, founded First Church of Christ, Scientist [Christian Scientist Church]

Anne Whitney (02 sep 1821 – 23 jan 1915 | Watertown MA – Boston MA) poet, sculptor

Harriet Ward Sanborn Grosvenor (22 jan 1823 – 07 sep 1863 | Hampton Falls NH – Newburyport MA) poet, writer, novelist

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (06 apr 1823 – 01 nov 1908 | Lancaster MA – Galesburg IL) poet, editor, author, educator, pen names: Julia, Minnie May, Frank Fisher, Sadie Sensible, Minister’s Wife, Rev. Peter Benson’s Daughter

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (06 may 1823 – 01 aug 1902 | Mattapoisett MA – Manhattan NY) poet, novelist

Sarah Jane Lippincott (23 sep 1823 – 20 apr 1904 | Pompey NY – New Rochelle NY) poet, editor, novelist, essayist, journalist, correspondent, pseudonym Grace Greenwood

Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (28 nov 1823 – 16 jan 1908 | Portland ME – Portland ME) poet, author, diarist, reformer, journalist, travel writer, first female New England book reviewer

Lucy Larcom (05 mar 1824 – 17 apr 1893 | Beverly MA – Boston MA) poet, Rushlight Literary Magazine founder

Eliza Allen Starr (29 aug 1824 – 08 sep 1901 | Deerfield MA – Durand IL) poet, author, lecturer, illustrator, Catholic convert

Caroline Augusta White Soule (03 sep 1824 – 06 dec 1903 | Albany NY – Glasgow City SCOT) poet, editor, novelist, religious writer, Universalist minister

Phoebe Cary (04 sep 1824 – 31 jul 1871 | Mount Healthy OH – Newport RI) poet, lyricist, co-author with sister Alice Cary

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 sep 1824 – 21 mar 1906 | Boston MA – Milton MA) poet, children’s author, Christian Scientist, pen name: A. D. T. Whitney

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (08 feb 1825 – 22 dec 1911 | Boston MA – Malden MA) poet, author, mill girl, bobbin doffer, social activist, suffragist leader

Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (13 feb 1825 – 18 jan 1913 | Charleston SC – Rutland VT) poet, prose author

Lucy Virginia French (16 mar 1825 – 31 mar 1881 | Accomack County VA – McMinnville TN) poet, author, songwriter, pen name L’Inconnue

Cornelia Phillips Spencer (20 mar 1825 – 11 mar 1908 | Harlem NY – Cambridge MA) poet, hymnist, journalist, social historian, first female to receive honorary degree from University of North Carolina

Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (13 apr 1825 – 09 mar 1903 | New London NH – St Cloud MN) poet, author, novelist, newspaper editor

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (24 sep 1825 – 22 feb 1911 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, essayist, feminist, abolitionist, African-American, aka The Bronze Muse, civil rights / temperance activist

Caroline Elizabeth Thomas Merrick (24 nov 1825 – 29 mar 1908 | East Feliciana Parish LA – New Orleans LA) poet, suffragist, short fiction writer, social / civic activist, women’s rights advocate

Frances Auretta Fuller Barritt Victor (23 may 1826 – 14 nov 1902 | Rome NY – Portland OR) poet, essayist, historian, columnist, historical novelist, aka Dorothy D. and Florence Fane

Mary Elizabeth Wilson [M.E.W.] Sherwood (27 oct 1826 – 12 sep 1903 | Keene NH – Manhattan NY) poet, essayist, memoirist, travel / etiquette writer, autobiographical author

Ethelinda [Ethel Lynn] Eliot Beers (13 jan 1827 – 11 oct 1879 | Goshen NY – Orange NJ) US Civil War poet

Rose Terry Cooke (17 feb 1827 – 18 jul 1892 | West Hartford CT – Pittsfield MA) poet, author, humorist, women’s biographer

Helen Hinsdale Rich (18 jun 1827 – 04 sep 1914 | Antwerp NY – St. Joseph MO) poet, lecturer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, temperance worker, short fiction writer, aka Poet of the Adirondacks, first woman to stand for woman suffrage in St. Lawrence County NY

Achsa W. Sprague (17 nov 1827 – 06 jul 1862 | Plymouth Notch VT – Plymouth Notch VT) poet, essayist, medium, lecturer, Spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist

Mary Ann Harris Gay (18 mar 1828 – 06 nov 1918 | Jones County GA – Decatur GA) poet, author, diarist, memoirist, US Confederate heroine

Phebe Coffin Hanaford (06 may 1829 – 02 jun 1921 | Siasconset MA – Rochester NY) poet, author, minister, suffragist, Universalist

Edna Dean Proctor (18 sep 1829 – 18 dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos

Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (21 dec 1829 – 24 may 1889 | Hanover NH – Boston MA) poet, pioneer deaf-blind student, developed unique tapping alphabet for communicating with others

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1830s

Helen Hunt Fiske Jackson (15 oct 1830 – 12 aug 1885 | Amherst MA – San Francisco CA) poet, novelist, historian, pen name: H.H., Native American rights activist

Emily Dickinson (10 dec 1830 – 15 may 1886 | Amherst MA – Amherst MA) poet, baker, literary figure

Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (19 dec 1830 – 12 may 1913 | Old Deerfield MA – Amherst MA) poet, writer, editor, traveler, intimate and sister-in-law of Emily Dickinson

Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (25 dec 1830 – 01 oct 1907 | Crawfordsville IN – Crawfordsville IN) poet, critic, author, editor, musician

Mary Clemmer Ames (06 may 1831 – 18 aug 1884 | Utica NY – Washington DC) poet, author, journalist

Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin (07 jul 1831 – 19 dec 1914 | Utica NY – Utica NY) poet, elocutionist, religious writer, president of the Woman’s Relief Corps of Grand Army of the Republic

Kate Harrington (20 sep 1831 – 29 sep 1917 | Allegheny City PA – Ft. Madison IA) poet, teacher, children’s author, primer and speller writer, born Rebecca Harrington Smith, aka Rebecca Smith Pollard, pioneered / produced first sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics for children used in American public schools [till 1937]

Osia Joslyn Hiles (13 feb 1832 – unknown | near Batavia NY – unknown) poet, philanthropist, social activist, gardener / groundskeeper, Native American rights activist, helped found Home for the Friendless / Wisconsin Humane Society / Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, originated one of the first stock companies for women

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (09 oct 1832 – 07 aug 1911 | Strong ME – Tuckahoe NY) poet, author, journalist, pen names: Florence Percy and Elizabeth Akers

Ellen Hardin Walworth (20 oct 1832 – 23 jun 1915 | Jacksonville IL – Washington DC) poet, author, editor, attorney, historian, biographer, social activist, domestic violence survivor / advocate, historic preservationist, Daughters of the American Revolution co-founder

Mary Tenney Gray (19 jun 1833 – 11 oct 1904 | Liberty PA – Kansas City KS) poet, editor, clubwoman, suffragist, fundraiser, philanthropist, cookbook publisher, editorial writer, aka Mother of the Woman’s Culture Club in Kansas

Emily Huntington Miller (22 oct 1833 – 02 nov 1913 | Brooklyn CT – Northfield MN) poet, author, educator, hymn writer, laid groundwork for formation of National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU]

Caroline [Carrie] Olivia Mayhew Speake (09 oct 1834 – 20 mar 1906| Alabama US – Alabama US) poet, artist, musician [note: allegorical image created as editor found no images of this woman or her works

Josephine [J.P.] Pollard (10 oct 1834 – 15 aug 1892 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, hymn writer, religious / historical children’s writer, founding member of Sorosis professional women’s club

Harriet McEwen Kimball (02 nov 1834 – 03 sep 1917 | Portsmouth NH – Portsmouth NH) poet, hymnist, philanthropist, aka The Poetess of the Church, funded / founded Portsmouth Cottage Hospital

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (29 jan 1835 – 09 apr 1905 | Cleveland OH – Newport RI) poet, aka Susan Coolidge, short fiction writer, children’s book author

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (03 apr 1835 – 14 aug 1921 | Calais ME – Deer Island ME) poet, novelist, short story writer

Louise Chandler Moulton (10 apr 1835 – 10 aug 1908 | Pomfret CT – Boston MA) poet, critic, short-story writer, prose fiction author, literary salon hostess

Adah Isaacs Menken (15 jun 1835 – 10 aug 1868 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) poet, painter, actress, journalist, née Dolores Adios Fuertes, highest earning actress of her time

Celia Laighton Thaxter (29 jun 1835 – 25 aug 1894 | Portsmouth NH – Appledore Island ME) poet, gardener, short story writer

Hannah E. Barker Taylor (18 aug 1835 – unknown | Fredericton NB – Pasadena CA) poet, singer, hymnist, English-Native American-Canadian, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union member

Ellen Palmer Allerton (17 oct 1835 – 31 aug 1893 Centerville NY – Padonia KS) poet

Amanda Theodocia Jones (19 oct 1835 – 31 mar 1914 | East Bloomfield NY – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, inventor, suffragist, spiritualist, Jones Process vacuum canning company founder

Phebe Cobb Larry Dole (28 nov 1835 – 26 apr 1909 | Gorham ME – Windham ME) poet, artist, landscape painter, magazine / newspaper writer, editor-in-chief of weekly Portland ME paper The Narragansett Sun

Harriet Maxwell Converse (11 jan 1836 – 18 nov 1903 | Elmira NY – New York NY) poet, author, adopted Iroquois, aka Yaiewano / Gayaneshaoh

Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (15 jan 1836 – 17 may 1911 | Indianapolis IN – Winnetka MO) poet, artist, author, pianist, composer, short story writer

Annie Sherwood Hawks (28 may 1836 – 03 jan 1918 | Hoosick NY – Bennington VT) poet, hymnist

Marietta Holley (16 jul 1836 – 01 mar 1926 | Jefferson County NY – Jefferson County NY ) poet, author, satirist, humorist, serial novelist, pen names: Jemyma and Josiah Allen’s Wife

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (11 aug 1836 – 22 dec 1919 | Lexington KY – Caldwell NJ) poet

Marion Juliet Mitchell (04 sep 1836 – 30 jan 1917 | Buffalo NY – Janesville WI) poet, graduate of first chartered US women’s college Ingham Institute in Le Roy NY

Agnes Maule Machar (23 jan 1837 – 24 jan 1927 | Kingston ON – Kingston ON) poet, author, novelist, essayist, feminist, biographer, social reformer, pen-name Fidelis

Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (17 apr 1837 – 13 apr 1900 | Quincy FL – Mobile AL) poet

Adeline [Addie] Lucia Hart Ballou (19 apr 1837 – 10 aug 1916 | Chagrin Falls OH – San Francisco CA) poet, artist, author, lecturer, suffragist

Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké (17 aug 1837 – 23 jul 1914 | Philadelphia PA – Washington DC) African-American poet, educator, journal writer, anti-slavery activist, volunteer Civil War Union nurse, first black teacher hired in two different US schools

Angelia [Angie] Louise Thurston French Newman (04 dec 1837 – 15 apr 1910 | Montpelier VT – Lincoln NE) poet, editor, author, teacher, lecturer, Spanish-American War hospital inspector

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (22 feb 1838 – 03 jun 1912 | New Rochelle NY – South Orange Village NJ) poet, editor, hymnist, short story writer, pen name: Aunt Marjorie, autobiographical author

Mary Torrans Lathrap (25 apr 1838 – 03 jan 1895 | Jackson MI – Jackson MI) poet, preacher, suffragist, pen name Lena, temperance reformer, women’s progressive activist, aka The Daniel Webster of Prohibition

Abba Louisa Goold Woolson (30 apr 1838 – 06 feb 1921 | Windham Center ME – Portland ME) poet, author, lecturer, historian, women’s dress reform advocate

Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly (06 sep 1838 – 30 apr 1917 | Philadelphia PA – West Chester PA) poet, Catholic, biographer, short story writer, aka The Poet of the Pure Soul

Mary Katherine Keemle [Kate] Field (01 oct 1838 – 19 may 1896 | St Louis MO – Honolulu HI) poet, actress, lecturer, journalist, correspondent, pen name: Straws, Jr., Kate Field’s Washington weekly journal founder / writer / publisher

Laura Redden Searing (09 feb 1839 – 10 aug 1923 | Somerset County MD – San Mateo County CA) poet, journalist, songwriter, pen name: Howard Glyndon, onset of deafness at age 11

Emma Crow Cushman (03 apr 1839 – 15 sep 1920 | St. Louis MO – Bar Harbor ME) poet, author, lesbian, focus on psychic experience research

Katherine Abbott [Kate] Sanborn (10 jul 1839 – 09 jul 1917 | Hanover NH – Medway MA) poet, author, teacher, humorist, memoirist, public speaker, calendar publisher, children’s school founder, newspaper / magazine correspondent

Mary Barr Clay (02 oct 1839 – 12 oct 1924 | Lexington KY – Richmond KY) poet, author, pioneering Kentucky feminist / suffragist, aka Mary B. Clay and Mrs. J. Frank Herrick

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1840s

Constance Fenimore Woolson (05 mar 1840 – 24 jan 1894 | Claremont NH – Venice IT) poet, novelist, travel writer, short story writer

Mary Jane Mathews Adams (23 oct 1840 – 11 dec 1902 | Brooklyn NY – Redlands CA) poet, author, philanthropist, patron of arts / libraries

Julia Zitella Cocke (10 nov 1840 – 03 dec 1929 | Perry County AL – Gadsden AL) poet, composer, essayist, translator, short fiction writer

Eleanor Agnes Lee (27 feb 1841 – 15 oct 1873 | Arlington VA – Lexington VA) poet, diarist, memoirist, folk figure, Confederate military family daughter

Josephine [Ina] Donna Coolbrith (10 mar 1841 – 29 feb 1928 | Nauvoo IL – Berkeley CA) poet, writer, librarian, first-ever US State Poet Laureate

Minnie Dessau Louis (21 jun 1841 – 12 mar 1922 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, educator, community leader, co-founder of National Council of Jewish Women

Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (15 aug 1841 – 24 mar 1916 | Tuscaloosa AL – Birmingham AL) poet, lyricist, education / prison reform activist

Sarah Knowles Bolton (15 sep 1841 – 21 feb 1916 | Farmington CT – Cleveland OH)  poet, writer, biographer, children’s author

Katharine [Kate] Brownlee Sherwood (24 sep 1841 – 15 feb 1914 | Poland OH – Washington DC) poet, journalist, clubwoman, women’s relief leader, Poetess of Congressional Circle

Maria Louisa Eve (11 feb 1842 – 05 apr 1900 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) poet, prose writer

Elizabeth Conwell Smith Willson (26 apr 1842 – 13 oct 1864 | Laurel IN – Cambridge MA) poet, two volumes of poetry published posthumously by husband

Augusta Emma Simmons Stetson (12 oct 1842 – 12 oct 1928 | Waldoboro ME – Rochester NY) poet, pastor, author, reader, fundraiser, Christian Science leader, excommunicated for alleged false teaching and insubordination

Mary Hall (16 aug 1843 – 15 nov 1927 | Marlborough CT – Marlborough CT) poet, suffragist, philanthropist, mathematics teacher, first CT Notary, first female lawyer admitted to Connecticut Bar, founded boys’ charity Good Will Club [became Boys’ Club USA]

Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot (22 oct 1843 – 10 sep 1929 | Baltimore MD – Cambridge MA) poet, teacher, social worker, literary family member [wife of T. S. Eliot]

Helen Kendrick Johnson (04 jan 1844 – 03 jan 1917 | Hamilton NY – Rochester NY) poet, activist, travel writer, children’s author

Mollie Evelyn Moore [M. E. M.] Davis (12 apr 1844 – 01 jan 1909 | Talladega AL – New Orleans LA) poet, editor, author, salon hostess

Gertrude Bloede (10 aug 1845 – 14 aug 1945 | Dresden DEU – Baldwin NY) German-born American poet, pen name: Stuart Sterne

Mary Edwards Bryan (18 may 1846 – 15 jun 1913 | Lloyd FL – Clarkston GA) poet, author, essayist, journalist

Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (13 jun 1846 – 04 may 1929 | Lawrenceville VA – Winchester MA) poet, author, speaker, educator, historian, civic activist, North Carolina Woman’s Club leader

Maria Howard Weeden (06 jul 1846 – 12 apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author

Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs (11 nov 1846 – 11 apr 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Buffalo NY) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, pioneer detective fiction author, aka Mother of the Detective Novel

Linda Gilbert (13 may 1847 – 24 oct 1895 | Rochester NY – Mount Vernon NY) poet, inventor, welfare worker, prison reformer, prison library activist

Fannie Ruth Robinson (30 sep 1847 – unknown | Carbondale PA – unknown) poet, author, educator, academic administrator, president of Oxford College [Ohio]

Emily Lilian Whiting (03 oct 1847 – 30 apr 1942 | Olcott NY – Boston MA) poet, author, journalist, literary editor, art / travel writer, esoteric spiritual thinker / philosopher

Emma Elizabeth Brown (18 oct 1847 – 1907 | Concord NH – Massachusetts) poet, artist, author, essayist, biographer, watercolorist, pen names: B.E.E. and E.E.Brown

Julia Ann Moore (01 dec 1847 – 05 jun 1920 | Plainfield Township MI – Michigan US) poet, poetaster, aka The Sweet Singer of Michigan

Lilla Cabot Perry (13 jan 1848 – 28 feb 1933 | Boston MA – Hancock NH) poet, artist, painter, translator, self-taught till age of 36

Ida Whipple Benham (08 jan 1849 – 21 may 1903 | Quakertown CT – Ledyard CT) poet, hymnist, educator, peace activist, American Peace Society director, Universal Peace Union executive committee member

Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (11 mar 1849 – 15 feb 1896 | Hancock County MS – New Orleans LA) poet, lyricist, journalist, aka Pearl Rivers, newspaper manager

Ruth McEnery Stuart (21 may 1849 – 06 may 1917 | Marksville LA – New York NY) poet, editor, author, short story writer

Emma Lazarus (22 jul 1849 – 19 nov 1887 | New York NY- New York NY) poet, author, Georgist, playwright, short story writer

Elizabeth Flint Wade (29 oct 1849 – 01 dec 1915 | Cassville NY – Norwalk CT) poet, author, magazine writer, pictorial photographer, president of Scribblers literary club, editor of American Journal of Photography

Mary Louise [Marie] Newland Andrews (31 oct 1849 – 07 feb 1891 | Bedford IN – Connersville IN) poet, editor, author, few works extant / ever published, founding member / secretary of Western Association of Writers

Grace Denio Litchfield (19 nov 1849 – 04 dec 1944 | Brooklyn NY – Goshen NY) poet, novelist

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1850s

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (27 feb 1850 – 14 jan 1943 | Boston MA – Gardiner ME) novelist, children’s poet, nonsense writer, biographer

Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates (01 jul 1850 – 06 apr 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, twice president of Browning Society, founded Contemporary Club of Philadelphia

Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe (18 jul 1850 – 19 jul 1939 | Mishawaka IN – San Diego CA) poet

Isabella Stewart Valancy Crawford (25 dec 1850 – 12 feb 1887 | Dublin IE – Toronto ON) Irish-Canadian poet, writer

Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer (21 feb 1851 – 20 jan 1934 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, historian, biographer, aka Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, president of Public Education Association of New York, first female architectural critic, honorary member American Institute of Architects and American Society of Landscape Architects

Helen Maria Winslow (13 apr 1851 – 27 mar 1938 | Westfield VT – Shirley MA) poet, novelist, journalist, Club Woman, co-founded Daughters of Vermont and New England Women’s Press Association

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (31 oct 1852 – 13 mar 1930 | Randolph MA – Metuchen NJ) children’s poet / short fiction writer, adult novelist / short fiction writer

Genie M. Smith (17 nov 1852 – unknown | Vermont US – Dubuque IA) poet, author, novelist, publisher, pen names: Kit Clover and Maude Meredith

Annie Le Porte Diggs (22 feb 1853 – 07 sep 1916 | London ON – Detroit MI) poet, author, activist, journalist, librarian, Canadian-born American

Ida Elizabeth Smith Noyes (16 apr 1853 – 05 dec 1912 | Croton DE – Chicago IL) poet, speaker, club woman, member of Daughters of the American Revolution

Katrina Trask (30 may 1853 – 08 jan 1922 | Brooklyn NY – Saratoga Springs NY) poet, memoirist, playwright, philanthropist, co-founder of Yaddo artists’ retreat, aka Kate Nichols Trask

Jane Maria Read (04 oct 1853 – unknown | Barnstable MA – unknown) poet, artist, author, human / animal portrait painter, taught arts / languages / mathematics

Edith Matilda Thomas (12 aug 1854 – 13 sep 1925 | Chatham Center OH – New York NY) poet, editor, author, teacher, typesetter

Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (21 feb 1855 – 06 dec 1902 | Colesville NY – Paris FR) poet, educator, professor, photographer, president of Wellesley College [1881-1887]

Mary Ella Waller (01 mar 1855 – 14 jun 1938 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) poet, novelist, essayist, translator, short story writer

Lizette Woodworth Reese (09 jan 1856 – 17 dec 1935 | Waverly MD – Baltimore MD) poet

Sarah Pratt [Sally] McLean Greene (03 jul 1856 – 29 dec 1935 | Simsbury CT – Lexington MA) poet, novelist

Charlotte Endymion Porter (06 jan 1857 – 16 jan 1942 | Towanda PA – Melrose MA) poet, editor, writer, translator, literary critic

Laura Coates Reed (16 feb 1857 – 29 nov 1938 | West Chester PA – Kansas City MO) poet, editor

Ida May De Puy Davis (22 feb 1857 – unknown | Lafayette IN – unknown) poet, writer, artist, painter, teacher, litterateur, member of Western Association of Women Writers, first female School Board member in Terre Haute IN

Margaret Deland (23 feb 1857 – 13 jan 1945 | Allegheny PA – Boston MA) poet, novelist, short story writer, autobiographer, née Margaretta Wade Campbell

Annie Eliot Trumbull (02 mar 1857 – 22 dec 1949 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, playwright

Agnes Mathilde Wergeland (08 may 1857 – 06 march 1914 | Oslo NO – Laramie WY) Norwegian-American poet, educator, historian, first female PhD in Norway

Eva Katharine Clapp Gibson (10 aug 1857 – 1916 | Bradford IL – unknown) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, Chicago Iroquois Theatre Fire survivor

Julia Evelyn Ditto Young (04 dec 1857 – 19 apr 1915 | Buffalo NY – Buffalo NY) poet, novelist

Alice Brown (05 dec 1857 – 21 jun 1948 | Hampton Falls NH – Boston MA) poet, novelist, biographer, playwright

Elizabeth Sims (30 sep 1957 – Wyandotte MI) poet, author, journalist, correspondent, contributing editor, mystery novelist, short story writer

Velma Caldwell Melville (01 jul 1858 – 25 aug 1924 | Greenwood WI – Gainesville FL) poet, editor, prose writer

Julia Kein Wetherill Baker (15 jul 1858 – 25 jul 1931 | Woodville MS – New Orleans MS) poet, short fiction author, book review / music / theatre newspaper columnist

Alice Rollit Coe (20 sep 1858 – 08 dec 1940 | Rawdon QC – Seattle WA) poet, author, immigrant, pen name: May B. Knott

Alice MacGowan (10 dec 1858 – 10 mar 1947 | Perrysburg OH – Los Gatos CA) poet, novelist, short fiction writer

Helen Gray Cone (08 mar 1859 – 31 jan 1934 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, literature professor

Katharine Lee Bates (12 aug 1859 – 28 mar 1929 | Falmouth MA – Wellesley MA) poet, author, educator, songwriter

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1860s

Adah Louise Sutton Saalfield (08 jun 1860 – 18 nov 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Akron OH) poet, author, children’s writer, women’s rights activist, animal welfare advocate, pen names: Ada Sutton, Adah Louise Sutton, Louise A. Field

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (03 jul 1860 – 17 aug 1935 | Hartford CT – Pasadena CA) poet, novelist, lecturer, utopian feminist, social reformer, non-fiction writer, magazine editor, commercial artist

Florence Mabel Kling Harding (15 aug 1860 – 21 nov 1924 | Marion OH – Marion OH)publisher, aka The Duchess, US Presidential First Lady

Elvira Sydnor Miller Slaughter (12 oct 1860 – 28 feb 1937 | Virginia US – Louisville KY) poet, author, journalist

Helen Archibald Clarke (13 nov 1860 – 08 feb 1926 | Philadelphia PA – Boston MA) poet, author, editor, literary critic

Harriet Monroe (23 dec 1860 – 26 sep 1936 | Chicago IL – Arequipa PE) poet,  editor, scholar, biographer, playwright, literary critic, patron of arts, autobiographical author, Poetry magazine editor / founder / publisher

Louise Imogen Guiney (07 jan 1861 – 02 nov 1920 | Roxbury MA – Chipping Campden UK) poet, editor, essayist

Effie Louise Smith (06 feb 1861 – 09 aug 1893 | Athens VT – Athens VT) poet

Emily Pauline [Tekahionwake] Johnson (10 mar 1861 – 07 mar 1913 | Six Nations Reserve ON – Vancouver BC) Mohawk-English-Canadian poet

Alice Harriman Browne (12 mar 1861 – 24 dec 1925 | Newport ME – Hollywood CA) poet, editor, novelist, publisher, short story writer, nonfiction author, aka The Only Woman Publisher in the World

Alice Lee Hornor Snelling Moqué (26 mar 1861 – 16 jul 1919 | New Orleans LA – Washington DC) poet, essayist, lecturer, travel writer, suffragist, photographer, sportswoman, newspaper correspondent, early US female bicyclist, founding member / vice-president of National Congress of Mothers

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (27 sep 1861 – 17 feb 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, lecturer, public speaker, political family member

Martha Strudwick Young (11 jan 1862 – 09 may 1941 | Newbern AL – Greensboro AL) poet, novelist, lecturer, short fiction writer, children’s book author

Lurana Waterhouse Sheldon Ferris (11 apr 1862 – 11 jun 1945 | Hadlyme CT – York ME) poet, lecturer, novelist, suffragist, freethinker, newspaper editor, anti-prohibitionist, pen names Richard Hackstaff, Stanley Norris, Grace Shirley

Virna Sheard (24 apr 1862 – 22 feb 1944 | Cobourg ON – Toronto ON) poet, novelist, pen name Stanton Sheard

Cynthia Westover Alden (31 may 1862 – 08 jan 1931 | Afton IA – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, editor, teacher, journalist, civil servant, philanthropist, pen name: Kate Kensington, invented NYC street-cleaners’ cart, founder / president-general of the International Sunshine Society to house / educate blind babies / children / elderly

Carolyn Wells (18 jun 1862 – 26 mar 1942 | Rahway NJ – New York NY) poet, author

Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (11 aug 1862 – 28 dec 1946 | Janesville WI – Hollywood CA) poet, pianist, singer-songwriter, first US female music publisher, autobiographical author, first woman to sell one million copies of a song

Jean McKishnie Blewett (04 nov 1862 – 19 aug 1934 | Scotia ON – Chatham ON) poet, author, journalist

Virginia Frazer Boyle (14 feb 1863 – 13 dec 1938 | Chattanooga TN – Memphis TN) poet, author

Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (23 aug 1863 – 15 jun 1945 | Richmond VA – Cismont VA) poet, novelist, playwright

Elaine Goodale Eastman (09 oct 1863 – 22 dec 1953 | Mount Washington MA – Hadley MA) poet, author, novelist, educator, Native American Sioux advocate

Katharine Pyle (23 nov 1863 – 19 feb 1938 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) poet, artist, illustrator, children’s author

Florence Byrne Cartwright (27 dec 1863 – 22 sep 1944 | Galena IL – Salem OR) poet, sestina / metrical composition expert

Jennie Harris Oliver (18 mar 1864 – 03 jun 1942 | Lowell MI – Oklahoma City OK) poet, Poet Laureate of Oklahoma

Orelia Key Bell (08 apr 1864 – 02 jun 1959 | Atlanta GA – Pasadena CA) poet, author, Christian Science hymnist, Boston marriage partner, known for writing her poems in gold leaf on china plates

Alice Woodby McKane (12 feb 1865 – 06 mar 1948 | Bridgewater PA – Savannah GA) poet, first female doctor in Savannah GA, co-founded McKane Training School for [Black] Nurses

Mary McNeil Fenollosa (08 mar 1865 – 11 jan 1954 | Wilcox AL – Montrose AL) poet

Alice May Douglas (28 jun 1865 – 06 jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration

Alice Cushing Donaldson Riley (18 mar 1867 – 09 aug 1955 | Morrison IL – Pasadena CA) children’s songs /operas / poetry / lullabies author, Drama League of America innovator

Susan Louise Cotton Marsh (23 apr 1867 – 21 sep 1946 | Troy IN – St Louis MO) poet, author, activist, biographer, children’s advocate, Poet Laureate of Missouri, children’s guardianship legislative proponent

Edna Henry Turpin (26 jul 1867 – 07 jun 1952 | Mecklenburg VA – Richmond VA) poet, author, novelist, poetry / fiction / non-fiction editor

Anna Madgalena Plehn Meyer (14 nov 1867 – 18 aug 1941 | Neumark PRUSS- Milwaukee WI) poet, hymnist, German-English translator of hymns

Marie Louise Van Vorst (23 nov 1867 – 16 dec 1936 | New York NY – Florence IT) poet, author, painter, novelist, WWI nurse, anti-war activist

Hattie Sterling Case Howard (31 dec 1867 –  1956 | Wabasha MN – Thetford VT) poet, hymnist

Julia Burnelle Smade [Bernie] Babcock (28 apr 1868 – 14 jun 1962 | Union OH – Petit Jean AR) poet, editor, essayist, novelist, satirist, illustrator, newspaper writer, museum founder

Maud Slye (08 feb 1869 – 17 sep 1954 | Minneapolis MN – Chicago IL) poet, musician, pathologist, cancer researcher

Olivia Ward Bush Banks (23 may 1869 – 08 apr 1944 | Sag Harbor NY – New York NY)  poet, author,  journalist, newspaper columnist, Montauk / African-American

Moina Belle Michael (15 aug 1869 – 10 may 1944 | Good Hope GA – Athens GA) poet, professor, humanitarian, aka The Poppy Lady, Memorial Poppy movement founder / leader

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1870s

Floride Isabella Lee Calhoun (15 may 1870 – 04 jun 1935 | New York NY – Atlanta GA) poet, musician

Lucy Martin Donnelly (18 sep 1870 – 03 aug 1948 | Ithaca NY – Bryn Mawr PA) poet, author, educator, letter correspondent

Sharlot Mabridth Hall (27 oct 1870 – 09 apr 1943 | Lincoln KS – Prescott AZ) poet, author, historian, journalist, photographer, Arizona artifacts collector, local history / folklore lecturer, first woman to hold office in Arizona Territorial government, founded Old Governor’s Mansion Museum [now Sharlot Hall Museum], namesake for Sharlot Hall Historical Society [in Prescott AZ]

Éva Circé-Côté (31 jan 1871 – 04 may 1949 | Montreal QC – Montreal QC) poet, librarian, journalist, established first public library in Montreal, pen names: Colombine, Musette, Jean Nay, Fantasio, Arthur Maheu, Julien Saint-Michel, Paul S. Bédard

Marian Osborne (14 may 1871 – 05 sep 1931 | Montreal QC – Toronto ON) poet, author, dramatist

Gertrude Buck (14 jul 1871 – 08 jan 1922 | Kalamazoo MI – Poughkeepsie NY) poet, playwright, essayist, professor, rhetorician, textbook author, Christian Scientist

Florine Stettheimer (29 aug 1871 – 11 may 1944 | Rochester NY – Manhattan NY) poet, painter, designer

Margaret Fuller (23 jan 1872 – 01 feb 1954 | Brooklyn NY – Norwich CT) poet, author, children’s writer

Sarah Birdsall Otis Edey (25 jun 1872 – 17 mar 1940 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, suffragist, Girl Scout activist

Leonora Speyer (07 nov 1872 – 10 feb 1956 | Washington DC – New York NY) poet, violinist, aka Lady Speyer, awarded 1927 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (22 apr 1873 – 21 nov 1945 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) poet, novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize laureate, autobiographical author

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (29 may 1873 – 24 jan 1955 | Cleveland OH – Englewood NJ) poet, children’s book writer, first female Head of Smith College, grandmother of kidnapped baby Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Rose Emily [Lola] Ridge (12 dec 1873 – 19 may 1941 | Dublin IE – Brooklyn NY) Irish-American editor, feminist, anarchist, avant-garde poet

Gertrude Stein (03 feb 1874 – 27 jul 1946 | Allegheny PA – Neuilly-sur-Seine FR ) poet, novelist, lesbian, playwright

Amy Lowell (09 feb 1874 – 12 may 1925 | Brookline MA – Brookline MA) poet, imagist, philanthropist, salon hostess, book collector

Mary Cummings Eudy (17 feb 1874 – 07 jun 1952 | Louisville KY – Manhattan NY) poet, fashion designer

Maud McKnight Lindsay (13 may 1874 -30 may 1941 | Tuscumbia AL – Tuscumbia AL) poet, teacher, playwright, children’s author, childhood friend of Helen Keller, founded first kindergarten in Alabama

Josephine Preston Peabody (30 may 1874 – 04 dec 1922 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) poet, dramatist

Alice Duer Miller (28 jul 1874 – 22 aug 1942 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, novelist, suffragist, screenwriter, women’s activist, active political observer

Myrtle Reed (27 sep 1874 – 17 aug 1911 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) poet, author, journalist, philanthropist

Adeline Jenney (10 nov 1874 – 11 may 1973 | Macedonia TR- Valley Springs SD) poet, author, first female Poet Laureate South Dakota

Lucy Maud Montgomery (30 nov 1874 – 24 apr 1942 | Clifton PEI – Toronto ON) Canadian poet, novelist, teacher, journalist

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt (17 dec 1874 – 04 apr 1961 | Rochester NY – Wilberforce OH) poet, editor, writer, social reformer, converted ERA advocate, founded Housekeeping Center settlement house in Rochester

Anna Hempstead Branch (18 mar 1875 – 08 sep 1937 | New London CT – New London CT) poet

Margaret Eliza Ashmun (10 jul 1875 – 15 mar 1940 | Rural WI – West Springfield MA) poet, teacher, novelist, essayist, textbook author, short fiction writer

June Etta Downey (13 jul 1875 – 11 oct 1932 | Laramie WY – Trenton NJ) poet, author, columnist, philosopher, psychologist, handwriting / personality researcher

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (19 jul 1875 – 18 sep 1935 | New Orleans LA – Philadelphia PA) poet, editor, diarist, novelist, feminist, journalist, playwright, suffragist, short fiction writer, Harlem Renaissance member, peace / civil rights / political activist, White Rose Home for Girls founder / teacher

Martha Hale Shackford (25 aug 1875 – 11 jan 2013 | Dover NH – Wellesley MA) poet, editor, author, textbook writer, professor of English literature

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (04 feb 1876 – 04 apr 1959 | Norfolk VA – Philadelphia PA) poet, radical activist, anti-child labor, autobiographical author, Christian Socialist, member American Naturalist movement

Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson (03 mar 1876 – 03 nov 1948 | Boston MA – Washington DC) poet, editor, heiress, travel writer, philanthropist, children’s author, WWI ARC nurse, aka Mrs Larz Anderson

Clara Bowdoin Winthrop (12 mar 1876 – 15 mar 1969 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, art collector, philanthropist

Mary Agnes [Theodora] Peck (25 oct 1876 – 11 jan 1964 | Burlington VT – Burlington VT) poet, novelist

Edwina Hume Fallis (15 nov 1876 – 14 sep 1947 | Denver CO – Denver CO) poet, writer, memoirist, educator, toy designer

Esther Mary Clark Hill (03 dec 1876 – 21 mar 1932 | Shaw KS – Topeka KS) poet, journalist

Mary Edna Tobias Marcy (08 may 1877 – 08 dec 1922 | Belleville IL – Bowmanville IL) poet, author, Socialist, pamphleteer, magazine editor

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (09 jun 1877 – 18 mar 1968 | Philadelphia PA – Framingham MA) poet, painter, sculptor, African-American, member of Black Renaissance

Grace Noll Crowell (31 oct 1877 – 31 mar 1969 | Inland IA – Dallas TX) poet, devotional author, children’s book writer, Poet Laureate of Texas

Stella George Stern Perry (08 dec 1877 – 07 nov 1956 | New Orleans LA – Brooklyn NY) poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, nonfiction author

Pamela Coleman Smith (16 feb 1878 – 18 sep 1951 | Pimlico UK – Bude UK) British-born American poet, artist, author, occultist, illustrator, salon hostess, designed images for Rider-Waite tarot cards

Miriam Dorothy [Isadora] Newman (23 apr 1878 – 1955 | New Orleans LA – New Orleans LA) poet, artist, writer, playwright, storyteller, philanthropist

Adelaide Crapsey (09 sep 1878 – 08 oct 1914 | Brooklyn NY – Rochester NY) poet, songwriter, short story writer

Agatha Tiegel Hanson (14 sep 1878 – 17 oct 1959 | Pittsburgh PA – Portland OR) deaf, poet, activist, teacher

Karle Wilson Baker (13 oct 1878 – 08 nov 1960 | Little Rock AR – Nacogdoches TX) poet, author, teacher, pen name Charlotte Wilson

Effie Waller Smith (06 jan 1879 – 02 jan 1960 | Pikeville KY – Neenah WI) African-American poet

Emma Bell Miles (19 oct 1879 – 19 mar 1919 | Evansville IN – Chattanooga TN) poet, artist, author, focus on Southern Appalachian culture / natural world, one first writers to show appreciation for Appalachian music / culture

Beth Slater Whitson (01 dec 1879 – 26 apr 1930 | Goodrich TN – Nashville TN) poet, lyricist, short fiction author

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1880s

Angelina Weld Grimké (27 feb 1880 – 10 jun 1958 | Boston MA – New York NY) poet, teacher,  journalist, playwright, one of first black women to have play performed publicly

Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson (10 sep 1880 – 14 may 1966 | Atlanta GA – Washington DC) poet, violinist, playwright, anti-lynching activist, Harlem Renaissance member / literary salon hostess

Julia Peterkin (31 oct 1880 – 10 aug 1961 | Laurens SC – near Fort Motte SC) poet, novelist, Pulitzer Prize laureate

Alice Corbin Henderson (16 apr 1881 – 18 jul 1949 | St Louis MO – Santa Fe NM) poet, author, museum curator, poetry journal editor

Grace Genevieve Stone Coates (20 may 1881 – 25 jan 1976 | Kansas US – Bozeman MT) poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (30 oct 1881 – 13 mar 1941 | Perryville KY – Orlando FL) poet, novelist, essayist

Olive Higgins Prouty (10 jan 1882 – 24 mar 1974 | Worcester MA – Brookline MA) poet, novelist, memoirist, philanthropist, founded Smith College writers’ scholarship

Anne Bethel Spencer (06 feb 1882 – 27 jul 1975 | Henry County VA – Lynchburg VA) poet, teacher, gardener, librarian, civil rights activist

Sonora Smart Dodd (18 feb 1882 – 22 mar 1978 | Jenny Lind AR – Spokane WA) poet, painter, businesswoman, Father’s Day founder, aka the Mother of Father’s Day

Jesse Redmon Fauset (27 apr 1882 – 30 apr 1961 | Fredericksville PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, editor, novelist, essayist, educator

Sara Bard Field Ehrgott (01 sep 1882 – 15 jun 1974 | Cincinnati OH – Berkeley CA) poet, suffragist, Georgist, Christian socialist

Mina Loy (27 dec 1882 – 25 sep 1966 | London UK – Aspen CO) British-born American poet, artist, novelist, actress, designer, futurist, bohemian, playwright, lamp designer, Christian Scientist, born Mina Gertrude Löwy

Helen Louise Birch Bartlett (27 feb 1883 – 24 oct 1925 | Boston MA – Chicago IL) poet, author, art collector, namesake for Helen Birch Memorial Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

Sonia Haft Shafirkin Greene Lovecraft Davis (16 mar 1883 – 26 dec 1972 | Ichnia RU – Sunland CA) poet, editor, author, milliner, memoirist, essayist, publisher, playwright, fanzine  investor, short fiction writer, president of United Amateur Press Association

Jessie Sampter (22 mar 1883 – 25 nov 1938 | New York NY – Givat Brenner IS) Zionist poet, educator, pioneer

Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (15 nov 1883 – 12 jan 1928 | Halifax NS – New York NY) Canadian-born American poet

Eunice Strong Hammond Tietjens (29 jul 1884 – 06 sep 1944 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) poet, editor, novelist, lecturer, journalist, children’s author

Sara Trevor Teasdale Filsinger (08 aug 1884 – 29 jun 1933 | St Louis MO – New York NY) lyric poet, first winner [1918] Columbia Poetry Prize [later became Pulitzer Prize]

Fannie Heaslip Lea (30 oct 1884 – 13 jan 1955 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) poet, author, playwright

Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie (07 sep 1885 – 16 dec 1928 | Somerville NJ – New York NY) poet, novelist

Katharine Nash Rhoades (30 nov 1885 – 26 oct 1965 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, artist, editor, painter, illustrator, artists’ / photographers’ model, aka One of the Three Graces

Hilda Doolittle (10 sep 1886 – 27 sep 1961 | Bethlehem PA – Zürich CH) poet, aka H. D., novelist, memoirist

Zoe Byrd Akins (30 oct 1886 – 29 oct 1958 | Humansville MO- Los Angeles CA) poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter

Helen Hoyt Lyman (22 jan 1887 – 02 aug 1972 | Norwalk CT – St Helena CA) poet

Elizabeth Hollister Frost (01 mar 1887 – 09 apr 1958 | Rochester NY – Rochester NY) poet, novelist

Mary Madeleva Evaline Wolff (24 may 1887 – 25 jul 1964 | Cumberland WI – Boston MA) poet, abbess, medieval scholar, non-fiction author, aka Lady Abbess of Nun Poets

Marianne Craig Moore (15 nov 1887 – 05 feb 1972 | Kirkwood MO – New York NY) poet, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry recipient

Celia Dropkin (05 dec 1887 – 18 aug 1956 | Bobruysk BY – New York NY) Yiddish-American poet, aka Tsilye Drapkin

Charlotte [Lotte] Lehman (27 feb 1888 – 26 aug 1976 | Perleberg DEU – Santa Barbara CA) German-born American poet, painter, memoirist, operatic soprano, master voice teacher, autobiographical author

Hilda [Jane] Worthington Smith (19 jun 1888 – 03 mar 1984 | New York NY – Washington DC) poet, essayist, labor activist / educator

Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff (10 jul 1888 – 1959 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, writer, critic

Aline Murray Kilmer (01 aug 1888 – 01 oct 1941 | Norfolk VA – Stillwater Township NJ) poet, children’s author

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1890s

Sara Campbell (24 apr 1890 – 18 nov 1965 | Dover TN – Paducah KY) poet, author, flag designer, aka The Betsy Ross of Paducah

Louise Crenshaw Ray (17 may 1890 – 23 oct 1956 | Butler AL – Birmingham AL) poet

Katherine Anne Porter (15 may 1890 – 18 sep 1980 | Indian Creek TX – Silver Spring MD) poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, political activist, née Callie Russell Porter

Helen Hartness Flanders (19 may 1890 – 23 may 1972 | Springfield VT – Springfield VT) poet, author, essayist, ethnomusicologist

Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle (04 sep 1890 – 30 dec 1977 | Waterford CT – Devon PA) poet, essayist, lecturer, civil rights activist

Blanche Oelrichs Thomas Barrymore Tweed (01 oct 1890 – 05 nov 1950 | Newport RI – Boston MA) poet, actor, author, playwright, radio personality, aka Michael Strange

Katharine Butler Hathaway (02 oct 1890 – 24 dec 1942 | Baltimore MD – Blue Hill ME) poet, short fiction author, children’s stories writer, autobiographical author

Caresse [Polly] Crosby (20 apr 1891 – 24 jan 1970 | New Rochelle NY – Rome IT) poet, publisher, ghost writer, avant-garde arts / literary figure, born Mary Phelps Jacob, founded Women Against War, invented / patented modern brassiere

Georgia Elma Harkness (21 apr 1891 – 21 aug 1974 | Harkness NY – Claremont CA) author, professor, Methodist theologian, ministry of arts / poetry advocate

Gladys Hall (26 apr 1891 – 18 sep 1977 | New York NY – Huntington NY) poet, journalist, essayist, syndicated columnist

Edna St. Vincent Millay (22 feb 1892 – 19 oct 1950 | Rockland ME – Austerlitz NY) poet, activist, playwright

Djuna Barnes (12 jun 1892 – 18 jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist

Evelyn Dunn Scott (17 jan 1893 – 03 aug 1963 | Clarksville TN – New York NY) poet, critic, novelist, essayist, playwright, aka Daughter of Tennessee

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (31 may 1893 – 31 aug 1986 | Buffalo NY – Nobleboro ME) poet, children / adult novelist

Dorothy [Dottie] Rothschild Parker (22 aug 1893 – 07 jun 1967 | Long Branch NJ – New York NY) poet, critic, satirist, screenwriter, short story writer

Fannie Frank Cook (03 oct 1893 – 25 aug 1949 | St Charles MO – St Louis MO) poet, novelist, journalist, short story writer, speechwriter, social / civil rights activist

Lois Lenski (14 oct 1893 – 11 sep 1974 | Springfield OH – Tarpon Springs FL) children / young adult poet, author, illustrator, playwright, songwriter

Margarete Moller Kollisch (09 dec 1893 – 11 oct 1979 | Vienna AT – Staten Island NY) Austrian-American poet, author, translator, massage therapis

Hilda Butler Farr (06 jan 1894 – 26 aug 1969 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) poet, pianist, composer

Oriana Atkinson (04 sep 1894 – 31 jul 1989 | New York NY – Huntsville AL) poet, author, drama critic

Rachel Lyman Field (19 sep 1894 – 15 mar 1942 | New York NY – Los Angeles CA) poet, novelist, children’s fiction author

Genevieve Taggard (28 nov 1894 – 08 nov 1948 | Waitsburg WA – New York NY) poet, editor, biographer

Concha Meléndez (21 jan 1895 – 26 jun 1983 | Caguas PR – San Juan PR) poet, author, educator, professor emeritus, first woman in history of Mexico to earn a PhD, first female member of Puerto Rican Academy of Languages

Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney (25 jan 1895 – 04 oct 1957 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, novelist, founded Poetry Society of South Carolina

Muna Lee (29 jan 1895 – 03 apr 1965 | Raymond MS – San Juan PR) lyric poet, novelist, feminist, Pan-American, translator, women’s activist, US-Puerto Rico Cultural Affairs specialist

Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (08 mar 1895 – 26 aug 1973 | Barranquitas PR – San Juan PR) poet, literary figure, pen-name Clara Lair

Mary Jane Carr (23 apr 1895 – 04 jan 1988 | Portland OR – Portland OR) children’s poet, author, novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright

Gamel Woolsey (28 may 1895 -18 jan 1968 | Aiken SC – Malaga ES) poet, novelist

Lilian May Miller (20 jul 1895 – 11 jan 1943 | Tokyo JP – San Francisco CA) poet, painter, woodblock printmaker

Babette Deutsch (22 sep 1895 – 13 nov 1982 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, critic, novelist, translator

Jeannette Howard Foster (03 nov 1895 – 26 jul 1981 | Oak Park IL – Pocahontas AR) poet, scholar, librarian, professor, focus on both overt / covert lesbian literature

Helen Hooven Santmyer (25 nov 1895 – 21 feb 1986 | Cincinnati OH – Xenia OH) poet, novelist, professor

Helen Adolf (31 dec 1895 – 13 dec 1998 | Vienna AT – State College PA) Austrian-American poet, author, linguist, translator, literature scholar

Dorothy Keeley Aldis (13 mar 1896 – 04 jul 1966 | Chicago IL – Lake Forest IL) children’s poet, novelist, aka Poet Laureate of Young Children

Mary Ellis Peltz (04 may 1896 – 24 oct 1981 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, music / drama critic, founding editor Opera News magazine

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (08 aug 1896 – 14 dec 1953 | Washington DC – St Augustine FL) poet, novelist, memoirist, short fiction writer, letter correspondent

Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein (21 oct 1896 – 1985 | Gomel BY – New York NY) poet, lecturer, screenwriter, Russian-born Canadian Yiddish writer

Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (30 dec 1896 – 14 nov 1983 | Charleston SC – Beaufort SC) poet, curator, novelist, children’s author

Louise Bogan (11 aug 1897 – 04 feb 1970 | Livermore Falls ME – New York NY) poet, literary critic, New Yorker poetry editor, Poet Laureate to US Library of Congress

Katherine Linn [Kay] Sage (25 jun 1898 – 08 jan 1963 | Albany NY – Woodbury CT) poet, painter, Surrealist

Mary B. Ward (06 dec 1898 – 10 jul 1985 | Selma AL – Lewisville AR) poet, editor, Poet Laureate of Alabama, pen names: Linn Latham, Amy Atchison, Jack Ordwa

Claire Huchet Bishop (30 dec 1898 – 13 mar 1993 | Switzerland – Paris FR) Swiss-born American poet, editor, lecturer, librarian, children’s book author

May Sullivan Miller (26 jan 1899 – 08 feb 1995 | Washington DC – Washington DC) African-American poet, playwright, educator, member of Harlem Renaissance

Ilse Bing Wolff (23 mar 1899 – 10 mar 1998 | Frankfurt DEU – Manhattan NY) German-American, poet, etcher, collage artist, avant-garde photographer, commercial photojournalist, photo negative solarisation process inventor, aka Queen of the Leica

Olga A. Markov (16 jun 1899 – 28 jan 1961 | unknown – Los Angeles CA) poet, singer, writer

Margaret Larkin (07 jul 1899 – 07 may 1967 | Las Vegas NM – Mexico City MX) poet, writer, journalist, researcher, union activist, singer-songwriter

Janet Loxley Lewis (17 aug 1899 – 01 dec 1998 | Chicago IL – Los Altos CA) poet, novelist

Léonie Fuller Adams (09 dec 1899 – 27 jun 1988 | Brooklyn NY – New Milford CT) mystical poet

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1900s

Meridel Wharton Le Sueur (22 feb 1900 – 14 nov 1996 | Murray IA – Hudson WI) poet, writer, journalist, children’s biographical author

Sister Gertrude Morgan (07 apr 1900 – 08 jul 1980 | Lafayette AL – New Orleans LA) poet, artist, musician, preacher

Florence Patton Reece (12 apr 1900 – 03 aug 1986 | Sharps Chapel TN – Knoxville TN) poet, folk songwriter, labor / civil rights activist

Helen Steiner Ricer (19 may 1900 – 23 apr 1981 | Lorain OH – Cincinnati OH) poet, religious / inspirational writer

Laura Reichental Riding (16 jan 1901 – 02 sep 1991 | New York NY – Sebastian FL) poet, critic, novelist, essayist, short story writer, member of The Fugitives

Ruth Krauss (25 jul 1901 – 10 jul 1993 | Baltimore MD – Westport CT) children’s book author, playwright, theatrical poet for adults

Viola Goode Liddell (18 dec 1901 – 16 may 1998 | Gastonburg AL – Camden AL) poet, author, memoirist, storyteller, short fiction writer

Gwendolyn Bennetta Bennett (08 jul 1902 -30 may 1981 | Giddings TX – West Reading PA) poet, short story writer, cultural commentator

Irene Rice Pereira (05 aug 1902 – 11 jan 1971 | Chelsea MA – Marbella ES) poet, artist, writer, philosopher

Leona Baumgartner (18 aug 1902 – 15 jan 1991 | Chicago IL – Chilmark MA) poet, author, physician, first female Commissioner of NYC Department of Health, pioneer in poverty / immigrant healthcare services

Marya Zaturenska (12 sep 1902 – 19 jan 1982 | Kiev UKR – Shelburne Falls MA) lyric poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [1938]

Madeline Gleason (26 jan 1903 – 22 apr 1979 | Fargo ND – San Francisco CA) poet, dramatist, San Francisco Poetry Guild founder, directed first US poetry festival

Lorine Faith Niedecker (12 may 1903 – 31 dec 1970 | Blackhawk Island WI – Blackhawk Island WI) poet, sole female poet associated with Objectivists

Marguerite Yourcenar (08 jun 1903 – 17 dec 1987 | Brussels BE – Northeast Harbor ME) poet, novelist, essayist, née Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour

Audrey Alexandra Brown (29 oct 1904 – 20 sep 1998 | Nanaimo BC – Victoria BC) Canadian poet

Jessica Powers (07 feb 1905 – 18 aug 1988 | Mauston WI – Pewaukee WI) poet, teacher, Carmelite nun, aka Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit

Phyllis McGinley (21 mar 1905 – 22 feb 1978 | Ontario OR – New York NY) poet, author, essayist, children’s book writer

Dorothy Marie Johnson (19 dec 1905 – 11 nov 1984 | McGregor IA – Missoula MT) poet, author, essayist, short fiction writer, magazine writer, focus on American Old West

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (22 jun 1906 – 07 feb 2001 | Englewood NJ – Passumpsic VT) poet, author, aviator, memoirist, mother of kidnapped / murdered child

Helene Johnson (07 jul 1906 – 06 jul 1995 | Boston MA – New York NY) African-American, Harlem Renaissance poet

Aileen Fisher (09 sep 1906 – 02 dec 2002 | Iron River MI – Boulder CO) poet, playwright, children’s writer, fiction / nonfiction author

Viola Sophia Wendt (31 mar 1907 – 23 mar 1986 | Boise ID – Waukesha WI) poet, educator

Sanora Babb (21 apr 1907 – 31 dec 2005 | Red Rock OK – Hollywood Hills CA) poet, novelist, literary editor

Ruby Altizer Roberts (22 apr 1907 – 24 may 2004 | Alum Ridge VA – Christiansburg VA) editor, memoirist, publisher, children’s book author, first / only female Poet Laureate of Virginia

Julia Evelyn Godman Ruuttila (26 apr 1907 – 05 apr 1991 | Eugene OR – Anchorage AK) poet, novelist, social / peace activist, investigative journalist

Mary Ammirato-Collins (03 apr 1908 – unknown | Hortense TX – unknown) poet, artist, enameller, librettist

Anna Palmer North Coit (08 apr 1908 – 15 oct 2014 | Manhattan NY – Mystic CT) poet, Quaker, activist, historian, journalist, Christmas tree farmer

Jane Sherman (14 jun 1908 – 16 mar 2010 | Beloit WI – Englewood NJ) poet, editor, writer, dancer, composer, performer

Josephine Winder Boyland Jacobsen (19 aug 1908 – 09 jul 2003 | Coberg ON – Cockneyville MD) poet, literary critic, short story writer, US Poet Laureate

Marguerite Vivian Young (26 aug 1908 – 17 nov 1995 | Indianapolis IN – Indianapolis IN) poet, critic, novelist, biographer

Mary Oppen (28 nov 1908 – 14 may 1990 | Kalispell MT – Berkeley CA) poet, artist, activist, writer, photographer, autobiographical author

Bernice Goetz (04 may 1909 – 30 dec 1958 | Cleveland OH – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, teacher, lecturer, explorer

Norma Holzman Farber (06 aug 1909 – 21 mar 1984 | Boston MA – Cambridge MA) poet, children’s book writer, classical soprano

Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay (12 oct 1909 – 29 dec 1996 | Winnipeg MB – Victoria BC) poet

Helen Adam (02 dec 1909 – 19 sep 1993 | Glasgow SCOT- New York NY) poet, collagist,  photographer, Beat Generation predecessor, active member San Francisco Renaissance

Mary E. Barnard (06 dec 1909 – 25 aug 2001 | Vancouver WA – Vancouver WA) poet, biographer, Greek-English translator

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1910s

Josephine Winslow Johnson (20 jun 1910 – 27 feb 1990| Kirkwood MO – Batavia OH) poet, novelist, essayist, short fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction

Elizabeth Eileen Chater (22 aug 1910 – 10 nov 2004 | Vancouver BC – Irvine CA) Canadian-American poet, professor, science-fiction writer, historical romance novelist, pen names: Lee Chater, Lee Chaytor, Lisa Moore

Rosalie Moore Brown (08 oct 1910 – 18 jun 2001 | Oakland CA – Petaluma CA) poet, playwright, children’s book author, aka Gertrude Elizabeth Moore

Audrey May Wurdemann (01 jan 1911 – 18 may 1960 | Seattle WA – Miami FL) poet, fiction co-author, youngest Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry

Louise McNeill Pease (09 jan 1911 – 18 jun 1993 | Buckeye WV – Charleston WV) poet, essayist, Appalachian historian

Elizabeth Bishop (08 feb 1911 – 06 oct 1979 | Worcester MA – Boston MA) poet, short story writer

Bella [Bel] Kaufman (10 may 1911 – 25 jul 2014 | Berlin DEU – Manhattan NY) poet, author, teacher

Helen Friedman Blackshear (05 jun 1911 – 12 nov 2003 | Tuscaloosa AL – Tuscaloosa AL) poet, editor, author, teacher, memoirist, biographer, Poet Laureate of Alabama

Josephine Louise Miles (11 jun 1911 – 12 may 1985 | Chicago IL – Berkeley CA) poet, literary critic

Hannah Kahn (30 jun 1911 – 01 feb 1988 | New York NY – Miami FL) poet, author, co-editor

Mary Elizabeth Counselman (09 nov 1911 – 13 nov 1995 | Birmingham AL – Birmingham AL) poet, short fiction writer

May Sarton (03 may 1912 – 16 jul 1995 | Wondelgem BE – York ME) poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist

Elisa Bialk Krautter (04 oct 1912 – 28 feb 1990 | Chicago IL – Hilton Head Island SC) poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, short story writer

Pauline Elizabeth Murphy Williams (04 dec 1912 – 04 oct 2004 | Virginia Beach VA – Norfolk VA) poet, artist, painter, short fiction writer

Anna Thilda [May] Swenson (28 may 1913 – 04 dec 1989 | Logan UT – Bethany Beach MD) poet, translator, playwright, writer-in-residence, American Academy of Poets Chancellor

besmilr moore brigham (29 sep 1913 – 30 sep 2000 | Pace MS – Las Cruces NM) poet, short story writer, born Bess Miller Moore

Muriel Rukeyser (15 dec 1913 – 12 feb 1980 | New York NY – New York NY) Jewish-American poet, political activist

Elizabeth Smart (27 dec 1913 – 04 mar 1986 | Ottawa ON- London UK) Canadian poet, novelist

Julia Constancia de Burgos (17 feb 1914 – 06 jul 1953 | Carolina PR – Manhattan NY) poet, civil rights / women writers activist

Chang Ch’ung-ho Frankel (17 may 1914 – 17 jun 2015 | Shanghai CN – New Haven CT) Chinese-American poet, educator, calligrapher, Kunqu opera singer

Helen Joy Davidman (18 apr 1915 – 13 jul 1960 | New York NY – Oxford UK) poet, prose writer

Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (07 jul 1915 – 30 nov 1998 | Birmingham AL – Chicago IL) poet, author, professor

Isabella Stewart [Belle] Gardner (07 sep 1915 – 07 jul 1981 | Newton MA – Manhattan NY) poet, heiress, author, character actor, editor of Poetry Magazine, aka The Other Isabella Stewart Gardner

Dorothy Louise Simpson Bridges (19 sep 1915 – 16 feb 2009 | Worcester MA – Los Angeles CA) poet, actress, acting family matriarch

Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (01 nov 1915 – 21 nov 2010 | St. Rose LA – Chicago IL) poet, author, novelist, educator, visual artist, arts organizer, co-founded Ebony Museum of Chicago [now DuSable Museum of African Amerian History], helped establish South Side Community Arts Center

Edith Marion Marcombe Shiffert (09 jan 1916 – 01 mar 2017 | Toronto ON – Kyoto JP) Canadian ex-patriate poet

Toyo Suyemoto (14 jan 1916 – 30 dec 2003 | Oroville CA – Columbus OH) poet, teacher, memoirist, librarian, Japanese-American WWII camp internee

Grace Beacham Freeman (18 feb 1916 – 28 oct 2008 | Spartanburg SC – Asheville NC) poet, columnist, educator, short story writer

Helen Norris Bell (22 jun 1916 – 18 nov 2013 | Miami FL – Black Mountain NC) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, Poet Laureate of Alabama

Eve Moskovitz Merriam (19 jul 1916 – 11 apr 1992 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, feminist, playwright

Anne Hébert (01 aug 1916 – 22 jan 2000 | St Catherine de Fossambault QC – Montreal QC ) poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, short story writer

Hilda Auerbach Morley (19 sep 1916 – 23 mar 1998 | New York NY – Sag Harbor NY) Black Mountain poet

Ann Stanford (25 nov 1916 – 12 jul 1987 | La Habra CA – Los Angeles CA) poet, critic, editor, scholar, professor, biographer, founding member Associated Writing Programs

Adrien Stoutenburg (01 dec 1916 – 14 apr 1982 | Darfur MN – Santa Barbara CA) poet, librarian, non-fiction author, children’s / young adult fiction writer

Gilda Galán (16 jan 1917 – 21 jun 2009 | Guayama PR – Carolina PR) poet, author, actress, dramatist, comedian, scriptwriter

Carson McCullers (19 feb 1917 – 29 sep 1967 | Columbus GA – Nyack NY) poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer

Barbara Deming (23 jul 1917 – 02 aug 1984 | New York NY – Sugarloaf Key FL) poet, novelist, essayist, feminist, lesbian, non-violent change activist / advocate, founded Money for Women Fund / now Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and oldest ongoing feminist [artists] granting agency

Barbara Cooney (06 aug 1917 – 10 mar 2000 | Brooklyn NY – Damariscotta ME) poet, artist, novelist, children’s books author / illustrator

Marie Teresa Ríos (09 nov 1917 – 17 oct 1999 | Brooklyn NY – Sarasota FL) poet, author, prisoner of war activist

Miriam Waddington (23 dec 1917 – 03 mar 2004 | Winnipeg MB – Vancouver BC) Canadian poet, translator, short story writer

Elizabeth MacKethan Magid (31 dec 1917 – 23 mar 2004 | North Carolina US – Golden CO) poet, pilot, freelance writer

Margaret Avison (23 apr 1918 – 31 jul 2007 | Galt ON – Toronto ON) poet

Jane Mayhall Katz (10 may 1918 – 17 mar 2009 | Louisville KY – Manhattan NY) poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer

Naomi Replansky (23 may 1918 – Bronx NY) lifelong poet

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel (22 dec 1918 – 13 apr 2007 | Lincoln County OK – Tulare CA) poet, aka The Okie Poet, Dustbowl immigrant from Oklahoma to California

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1920s

Margaret Hillert (22 jan 1920 – 11 oct 2014 | Saginaw MI – Beverly Hills MI) poet, children’s author, retired elementary teacher

Gerda Hedwig Kronstein Lerner (30 apr 1920 – 02 jan 2013 | Vienna AT – Madison WI) poet, author, historian, teacher, screenwriter, poetry, fiction, autobiographical author, one of pioneering founders of women’s history as an academic field of study

Ruth McCue Bell Graham (10 jun 1920 – 14 jun 2007 | Qingjiang CN – Montreat NC) poet, author, painter, essayist, philanthropist

Amy Clampitt (15 jun 1920 – 10 sep 1994 | New Providence IA – Lenox MA) poet, author

Eleanor Ross Taylor (30 jun 1920 – 30 dec 2011 | Norwood NC – Falls Church VA) poet

Mary Ellen Bottom Solt (08 jul 1920 – 21 jun 2007 | Gilmore City IA – Santa Clarita CA) poet, author, anthologist, innovative pioneer of concrete poetry

Beulah Elizabeth [Beah] Richards (12 jul 1920 – 14 sep 2000 | Vicksburg MS – Vicksburg MS) poet, author, playwright, stage / screen / television actress

Naomi Ascher Goodman (26 aug 1920 – 02 sep 2005 | New York NY – East Hampton NY) poet, author, cookbook writer, lifelong pacifist

Barbara Guest (06 sep 1920 – 15 feb 2006 | Wilmington NC – Berkeley CA) poet, prose stylist

Janet Rosenberg Jagan (20 oct 1920 – 28 mar 2009 | Chicago IL – Belém BR) poet, children’s author-publisher, social / political / women’s rights activist, first female Prime Minister and first female President of Guyana

Marie Birmingham Ponsot (06 apr 1921 – 05 jul 2019 | Brooklyn NY – Manhattan NY) poet, teacher, essayist, translator, literary critic

Margaret [Maggie] Rockwell Finch (20 apr 1921 – 14 jan 2018 | Cape May NJ – Portland ME) poet, artist, co-president of Maine Poets Society, president of National Institute of American Doll Artists

Mona Van Duyn (09 may 1921 – 02 dec 2004 | Waterloo IA – University City MO) poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to US Library of Congress

Rose Lopes-Dias Van Thyn (19 sep 1921 – 27 jun 2010 | Amsterdam NL – Shreveport LA) poet, seamstress, Auschwitz survivor, Holocaust educator

Anne Szumigalski (03 jan 1922 – 22 apr 1999 | London UK – Saskatoon SK) British-born Canadian poet

Sylvia Rexach (22 jan 1922 – 20 oct 1961 | San Juan PR – San Juan PR) poet, singer, columnist, music critic, boleros composer, comedy scriptwriter, WWII office clerk with Women Army Service Corps [WACS]

Frances Elizabeth Dean [FrancEyE] Smith (19 mar 1922 – 02 jun 2009 | San Rafael CA – Greenbrae CA) poet

Marjorie LaVern Olson Lazarus (21 mar 1922 – 27 nov 2016 | Muskegon MI – Madison NJ) poet, artist, art director, cartoon text / short fiction writer

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel (23 apr 1922 – 24 jun 1995 | Belle Plaine IA – Los Angeles CA) poet, artist, actress, occultist, esotericist, member of Thelema group, known by mononym Cameron, founded multi-racial occult group The Children

Ruth Bashien Whitman (28 may 1922 – 01 dec 1999 | New York NY – Middletown RI) poet, translator, professor

Ruby Dee (27 oct 1922 – 11 jun 2014 | Cleveland OH – New Rochelle NY) poet, actress, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, civil rights activist

Grace Goodside Paley (11 dec 1922 – 22 aug 2007 | Bronx NY – Thetford VT) poet, teacher, political activist, short story writer

Pinkie Gordon Lane (13 jan 1923 – 03 dec 2008 | Philadelphia PA – Baton Rouge LA) African-American poet, editor, author, short fiction writer, first African-American Louisiana State Poet Laureate

Shirley Kaufman Daleski (05 jun 1923 – 25 sep 2016 | Seattle WA – San Francisco) American-Israeli poet, translator

Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett (05 jul 1923 – 05 nov 2020 | Norfolk VA – West Bloomfield MI) African-American poet, poetry editor

Mitsuye Yasutake Yamada (05 jul 1923 – Fukuoka JP) poet, editor, activist, feminist, essayist, story writer, former professor

Mari Evans (16 jul 1923 – 10 mar 2017 | Toledo OH – Indianapolis IN) African-American poet, editor, playwright, short story writer, children’s fiction author

Marie Edith Borroff (10 sep 1923 – 05 jul 2019 | New York NY – Branford CT) poet, author, translator, first female professor of English at Yale, first female Yale faculty named Sterling Professor

Geraldine Clinton Little (20 sep 1923 – 07 mar 1997 | Northern Ireland – Mount Holly Township NJ) poet, playwright, choral singer, short fiction writer

Denise Levertov (24 oct 1923 – 20 dec 1997 | Ilford UK – Seattle WA) British-born US poet, critic, editor, essayist, translator, memoirist, nonfiction author

Gloria Catherine Oden (30 oct 1923 – 16 dec 2011 | Yonkers NY – Catonsville MD) poet, editor, retired professor

Gloria Rewoldt Whelan (23 nov 1923 – Detroit MI) poet, novelist, children’s / young adult short fiction author

Lisel Mueller (08 feb 1924 – 21 feb 2020 | Hamburg DEU – Chicago IL) American poet, Pulitzer Prize laureate

Rona Jean Murray (10 feb 1924 – 09 jul 2003 | London UK – Victoria BC) Canadian poet, editor, playwright, non-fiction author

Florence Baker Karpin (20 jul 1924 – 24 mar 2014 | Lynbrook NY – Grafton VT) poet, artist, author, pianist, tap dancer

Jane Freilicher (29 nov 1924 – 09 dec 2014 | Brooklyn NY – New York NY) poet, painter, author, poetic literary figure

Elsie Jean McGivney Boese (19 jan 1925 – 07 apr 2004 | New Orleans LA – Alexandria LA) poet, political activist, Poet Laureate of Louisiana State

Mary Alice Kemery (19 apr 1925 – 21 oct 1995 | Morgantown WV – Colorado Springs CO) poet, author, palmist, astrologer, numerologist, aka Linda Goodman

Maxine Kumin (06 jun 1925 – 06 feb 2014 | Philadelphia PA – Warner NH) poet, speaker, novelist, children’s book author, short story writer

Felice Bryant (07 aug 1925 – 22 apr 2003 | Milwaukee WI – Gaitlinburg TN) poet, songwriter, country musician

Lorrie Goulet (17 aug 1925 – Riverdale NY) poet, artist, author, painter, sculptor, teacher, focus on women, families, and cultures

Geraldine Marsicano Jacobson (09 nov 1925 – 07 jul 2020 | Brooklyn NY – Norwich VT) poet, actress, speech therapist

Carolyn Kizer (10 dec 1925 – 09 oct 2014 | Spokane WA – Sonoma CA) poet, author, feminist

Ruth Simpson (15 mar 1926 – 08 may 2008 | Cleveland OH – Woodstock NY) poet, author, lesbian activist, founded first US lesbian community

Mary Jacqueline Simon [Jackie] Moore (19 mar 1926 – 11 apr 2002 | Hannibal MO – Strasburg VA) poet, author, memoirist, WWII DuPont chemist

Phyllis Gotlieb (26 may 1926 – 14 jun 2009 | Toronto ON – Toronto ON) poet, sci-fi novelist, aka Mother of Canadian Science Fiction

Mary Stuart (04 jul 1926 – 28 feb 2002 | Miami FL – New York NY) poet, singer, actress, lyricist, autobiographical author

Louise Abeita Chewiwi (09 sep 1926 – 21 jul 2014 | Isleta Pueblo NM – Albuquerque NM) poet, writer, educator, aka E-Yeh-Shure or Blue Corn, Isleta Pueblo-American

Phyllis Webb (08 apr 1927 – Victoria BC) poet, author, radio broadcaster

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (08 may 1927 – 25 sep 2017 | Hoonah AK) – Juneau AK) poet, author, scholar, translator, researcher, short story writer, elementary school volunteer, former Poet Laureate of Alaska, Tlingit language and traditions specialist expert

Thérèse Renaud (03 jul 1927 – 12 dec 2005 | Montréal QC – Paris FR ) poet, author, painter, memoirist

Dolores Kendrick (07 sep 1927 – 07 nov 2017 | Washington DC – Washington DC) poet, professor emerita, second Poet Laureate of District of Columbia

Fran Deitsch Landesman (21 oct 1927 – 23 jul 2011 | New York NY – London UK) poet, singer, lyricist, performer, open marriage advocate

Cynthia Lee Macdonald (02 feb 1928 – 03 aug 2015 | New York NY – Logan UT) poet, educator, psychoanalyst

Ruth Anderson (21 mar 1928 – 29 nov 2019 | Kalispell MT – Bronx NY) Zen flutist, sound poet, orchestrator, electronic music composer

Maya Angelou (04 apr 1928 – 28 may 2014 | St. Louis MO – Winston-Salem NC) poet, author, playwright, film director / producer

Marion Woodman (15 aug 1928 – 09 jul 2018 | London ON – London ON) Jungian analyst, mythopoetic author, women’s movement figure

Hannah Finegold Weiner (04 nov 1928 – 11 sep 1997 | Providence RI – New York NY) performance artist, Language Poet, automatic writing diarist

Anne Sexton (09 nov 1928 – 04 oct 1974 | Newton MA – Weston MA) confessional poet

Sarah Elizabeth Wright (09 dec 1928 – 13 sep 2009 | Wetipquin MD – New York NY) poet, novelist, biographer, nonfiction author

Adrienne Cecile Rich (16 may 1929 – 27 mar 2012 | Baltimore MD – Santa Cruz CA) poet, essayist, feminist

Eloise Greenfield (17 may 1929 – 05 aug 2021 | Parmele NC – Washington DC) poet, biographer, children’s book author, African-American rights activist

Jenny Hunter Groat (30 aug 1929 – 17 feb 2013 | Modesto CA – California US) artist, dancer, painter, book artist, educator, visual poet, choreographer, calligrapher, Zen practitioner, born LaVide June Hunt

Marie Elyse St. George (08 dec 1929 – St Catherines ON) poet, artist, art teacher, etcher, painter, lithographer, printmaker, memoirist

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1930s

Jean Dalby Clift (21 feb 1930 – 01 feb 2020 | Naples TX – Olympia WA) poet, author, essayist, pastoral counselor, Episcopal priest

Helen Fogwill Porter (08 may 1930 – St. John’s NL) poet, author, novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, women’s rights activist, creative writing teacher, arts / poetry activities volunteer, founding member of Canada’s Newfoundland Status of Women Council

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (27 may 1930 – Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska QC) poet, author, novelist, biographer

Cécile Cloutier (13 jun 1930 – 30 sep 2017 | Quebec City QC – Orleans ON) poet, writer, educator

Rosario Morales (23 aug 1930 – 23 mar 2011 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) poet, author, activist, feminist, Communist

Barbara Elefant-Raiskin (11 oct 1930 – 18 jun 2013 | Czechoslovakia – Tel Aviv ISR) poet, artist, author, painter, children’s writer, textbook author, university lecturer, Czech-American-Israeli

Joanna McClure (10 nov 1930 – near Tucson AZ) poet, author, photographer, Beat Generation member

Judith Viorst (02 feb 1931 – Newark NY) poet, author, journalist, memoirist, psychoanalysis researcher

Siri Sylvia Patricia von Reis Altschul (10 feb 1931 – unknown) Finnish-Swedish-American poet, author, botanist, Honorary Curator of Ethnobotany at New York Botanical Garden

Ruth Fainlight (02 may 1931 – New York NY)  poet, short story writer, translator, librettist

Jean Jay Macpherson (13 jun 1931 – 21 mar 2012 | London UK – Toronto CA) lyric poet, scholar

Jean Little (02 jan 1932 – 06 apr 2020 | Formosa TW – Guelph ON) Canadian poet, writer, novelist, children’s author, disabled children’s educator, autobiographical author, professor of children’s literature

Rhina Polonia Espaillat (20 jan 1932 – Santo Domingo DO) poet, translator, bilingual Dominican-American

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (28 jan 1932 – 25 sep 2020 | Philadelphia PA – Pompton Plains NJ) poet, author, professor, feminist / lesbian / gay / bisexual / transgender theology specialist

Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier (07 feb 1932 – 03 aug 2016 | Jérémie HT – Ottawa ON) Haitian-born Canadian, poet, novelist, educator, short fiction author

Rita Joe (15 mar 1932 – 20 mar 2007 | Whycocomagh Reserve NS – Sydney NS) poet, author, songwriter, ambassador, aka Poet Laureate of Mi’kmaq, autobiographical writer

Linda Pastan (27 may 1932 – New York NY) poet, former Poet Laureate of Maryland

Charlotte Shrager Fielden Morris (05 jun 1932 – 20 feb 2021 | Toronto ON – Toronto ON) poet, actress, author, therapist, novelist, playwright

Anne Leaton (13 jul 1932 – 26 jan 2016 | Cleburne TX – Fort Worth TX) poet, novelist, radio playwright, short story writer, former Fulbright Scholar

Karla Seidman Kuskin (17 jul 1932 – 20 aug 2009 | New York NY – Seattle WA) poet, author, illustrator, children’s book reviewer, pen name: Nicholas J. Charles

Natalie Zane Moore Babbitt (28 jul 1932 – 31 oct 2016 | Dayton OH – Hamden CT) children’s poet / novelist / book illustrator

Karen Kruse Anderson (16 sep 1932 – 18 mar 2018 | Erlanger KY – Los Angeles CA) poet, editor, novelist, philologist, first to use term ‘filk music’ in print, first to write scifaiku [science fiction haiku]

Sylvia Plath (27 oct 1932 – 11 feb 1963 | Boston MA – London UK) poet, novelist, short story writer

margareta waterman [lowercase name intentional] (08 dec 1932 – Boston MA) poet, publisher 

Anne Stevenson (03 jan 1933 – 14 sep 2020 | Cambridge UK – Durham UK) American-British poet, writer

Marilyn Pauline [Kim] Novak (13 feb 1933 – Chicago IL) poet, actress, pastellist, photographer, impressionistic / surrealistic visual artist

Helen Hennessy Vendler (30 apr 1933 – Boston MA) author, poetry / literary critic

Alice Friman (20 oct 1933 – New York NY) poet, creative writing professor, radio podcaster, Indiana Writers’ Center co-founder

Valerie Worth Bahlke (29 oct 1933 – 31 jul 1994 | Philadelphia PA – Clinton NY) poet, children’s author

Jan Haag (06 dec 1933 – Marysville WA) poet, filmmaker, needlepoint textile artist, founded American Film Institute [AFI] Directing Workshop for Women

Mary Alice Dawe Hunter Downie (12 feb 1934 – Alton IL) US-born Canadian poet, editor, reporter, freelance writer, book review editor, Oxford UP publicity manager

Audrey Geraldine [Audre] Lord (18 feb 1934 – 17 nov 1992 | New York NY – St Croix, US Virgin Islands) poet, writer, activist, essayist

Jean Valentine (27 apr 1934 – 29 dec 2020 | Chicago IL – Manhattan NY) poet, New York State Poet Laureate [2008-2010]

Jayne Cortez (10 may 1934 – 28 dec 2012 | Fort Huachuca AZ – Manhattan NY) poet, activist, small press publisher, spoken-word artist

Diane di Prima (06 aug 1934 – 25 oct 2020 | Brooklyn NY – San Francisco CA) poet, artist, author, teacher, memoirist, playwright, prose writer, former Beat poet, social justice activist

Sonia Sanchez (09 sep 1934 – Birmingham AL) poet, playwright, children’s author, born Wilsonia Benita Driver

Nellie Wong (12 sep 1934 – Oakland CA) poet, activist, feminist, Socialist

Beverly Dahlen (07 nov 1934 – Portland OR) poet, co-founded feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever

Joanne Kyger (19 nov 1934 – 22 mar 2017 | Vallejo CA – Bolinas CA) poet, Zen Buddhist

Ellen Gilchrist (20 feb 1935 – Vicksburg MS) poet, novelist, short story writer

Lynne Lawner (10 apr 1935 – Dayton OH) poet, author, photographer, art historian

Carol Ann Shields (02 jun 1935 – 16 jul 2003 | Oak Park IL – Victoria BC) US-Canadian poet, critic, novelist, playwright, short story writer

Joy Nozomi Kogawa (06 jun 1935 – Vancouver BC) poet, novelist

Rosmarie Sebald Waldrop (24 aug 1935 – Kitzingen DEU) German-born American poet, publisher, translator

Colleen J. McElroy (31 oct 1935 – St Louis MO) poet, editor, memoirist, short fiction author

Marilou Awiakta (24 jan 1936 – Knoxville TN) poet, essayist, translator, short story writer, US Air Force officer, Eastern Band Cherokee

Marge Piercy (31 mar 1936 – Detroit MI) poet, novelist, feminist, social activist, former New Left and Students for a Democratic Society [SDS] political activist

Rochelle Bass Owens (02 apr 1936 – Brooklyn NY) poet, editor, novelist, playwright

Gwen Davis (11 may 1936 – Pittsburgh PA) poet, blogger, novelist, journalist, playwright, songwriter, screenwriter

Shirley Bear (16 may 1936 – Negootgook Reserve NB) Tobique First Nation poet, artist, author, activist, photographer

Patricia Nell Warren (15 jun 1936 – 09 feb 2019 | Helena MT – Los Angeles CA) poet, editor, novelist, journalist, pen name: Patricia Kilina

Nancy Willard (26 jun 1936 – 19 feb 2017 | Ann Arbor MI – Poughkeepsie NY) poet, author, novelist, children’s book illustrator

Lucille Clifton (27 jun 1936 – 13 feb 2010 | Depew NY – Baltimore MD) poet, writer, educator

June Millicent Jordan (09 jul 1936 – 14 jun 2002 | Harlem NY – Berkeley CA) Jamaican-American poet, writer, bisexual activist

Karen Swenson (29 jul 1936 – New York NY) poet, editor, journalist, university poet-in-residence

Sandra Hochman (11 sep 1936 – New York NY) poet, lyricist, novelist, educator, journalist, screenwriter, film producer

Deena Metzger (17 sep 1936 – Brooklyn NY) poet, writer, healer, novelist, essayist, counselor, playwright

Janet Burroway (21 sep 1936 – Tucson AZ) poet, novelist, playwright, non-fiction author, children’s book writer

Sandra Gilbert (27 dec 1936 – New York NY) poet, professor, literary critic, co-author, non-fiction writer, second-wave feminist critic and theorist

Sallie Bingham (22 jan 1937 – Louisville KY) poet, author, activist, novelist, memoirist, teacher, feminist, playwright, short fiction writer, philanthropist

Mary Norton Kratt (07 jun 1937 – West Virginia US) poet, historian, biographer, historical writer, US Southern history specialist expert

Susan Howe (10 jun 1937 – Boston MA) Anglo-Irish poet, critic, scholar, essayist

Lola Lemire Tostevin (15 jun 1937 – Timmins ON) poet, novelist, feminist, literary critic

Diane Wakoski (03 aug 1937 – Whittier CA) poet, essayist, associated with Beat / deep image / confessional poetry movements

Brenda Bufalino (07 sep 1937 – Swampscott MA) poet, author, teacher, memoirist, choreographer, tap dance artist, mixed-genre artist, co-founded American Tap Dance Foundation [formerly American Tap Dance Orchestra]

Alicia Suskin Ostriker (11 nov 1937 – Brooklyn NY) poet, scholar, Jewish feminist

Alma Flor Ada (03 jan 1938 – Camagüey CU) Cuban-American poet, author, novelist, memoirist, children’s book author, university professor, bilingual / multicultural education advocate

Camille Yarbrough (08 jan 1938 – Chicago IL) poet, author, activist, actress, musician, television producer

Jovette Marchessault (09 feb 1938 – 31 dec 2012 | Montreal QC – Montreal QC) poet, artist, painter, sculptor, novelist, lecturer, feminist, playwright, LGBT activist, co-founded Squawtach Press

Cielle Tewksbury (09 feb 1938 – 03 jan 2014 | California US – Brattleboro VT) poet, artist, model, mother, actress, dancer, farmer, tai chi teacher, photographer, five element practitioner, born Patricia Virginia Beattie

Joyce Carol Thomas (25 may 1938 – 13 aug 2016 | Ponca City OK – Stanford CA) poet, author, speaker, playwright

Joyce Carol Oates (16 jun 1938 – Lockport NY) poet, editor, novelist, professor, playwright, literary critic, short fiction writer

Madeleine Gagnon (27 jul 1938 – Amqui QC) poet, author, educator, literary critic, former professor, magazine co-founder / writer

Barbara Anne Cameron (20 aug 1938 – Nanaimo BC) poet, novelist, screenwriter, short fiction writer, aka Cam Hubert and Anne Cameron, focus on Canadian First Nations’ culture and mythology

Elizabeth [Betty] Sharp Adcock (16 sep 1938 – San Augustine TX) poet, professor, Guggenheim Fellow

Olga Nolla Ramírez de Arellano (18 sep 1938 – 30 jul 2001 | Rio Piedras PR – New York NY) poet, novelist, short fiction writer

Lynne Sharon Schwartz (19 mar 1939 – Brooklyn NY) poet, critic, novelist, translator, memoirist

Bennie Lee Sinclair (15 apr 1939 – 22 may 2000 | Greenville SC – Greenville SC) poet, novelist, short story writer, South Carolina Poet Laureate [1986-2000]

Jeannette Delaine Washington (26 apr 1939 – Detroit MI) poet, novelist, professor, short fiction writer, pen name: Cherry Muhanji

Carol Smallwood (03 may 1939 – Cheboygan MI) poet, novelist, librarian, creative nonfiction author

Rosellen Brown (12 may 1939 – Philadelphia PA) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, creative writing professor

Barbara Chase-Riboud (26 jun 1939 – Philadelphia PA) poet, artist, sculptor, novelist, printmaker, one of first Africa-American women to exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Sheila Ortiz Taylor (25 sep 1939 – Los Angeles CA) poet, novelist, literary critic, literature professor

Marilyn L. Taylor (02 oct 1939 – Chicago IL) poet, former professor of poetry / poetics, workshop leader, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate

Paula Gunn Allen (24 oct 1939 – 29 may 2008 | Albuquerque NM – Fort Bragg CA) Native American poet, novelist, literary critic, lesbian activist

Margaret Atwood (18 nov 1939 – Ottawa ON) poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, inventor, literary critic, environmental activist

Carol Lynn Wright Pearson (01 dec 1939 – Rexburg ID) poet, novelist, playwright, social critic, screenwriter

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1940s

Judit [Ilosvay] Selymes (18 feb 1940 -Budapest HU) poet, writer, theatre director, Hungarian-American

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (12 mar 1940 – Paterson NJ) poet, editor, anthologist, watercolorist, founder / executive director of community college Poetry Center

Chana Bloch (15 mar 1940 – 19 may 2017 | Bronx NY – Berkeley CA) poet, scholar, professor, translator

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (25 mar 1940 – 26 aug 2011 | Brooklyn NY – Chicago IL) poet, novelist, memoirist, book reviewer

Kim Chernin (07 may 1940 – 17 dec 2020 | Bronx NY – San Francisco CA) poet, feminist, memoirist, pastoral counselor, fiction / nonfiction writer

Judy Rae Grahn (28 jul 1940 – Chicago IL) poet, author, feminist / lesbian focus

Alice Azure (30 jul 1940 – North Adams MA) poet, Mi’kmaq Métis writer

Martha Ann Miller (07 sep 1940 – 30 jan 2014 | Burlington VT – Randolph VT) poet, columnist, seamstress, social activist, singer / choir director, tv show producer, art / music teacher, short story writer, KatieDid and ElderWise owner / founder

Fanny Quincy Howe (15 oct 1940 – Buffalo NY) poet, novelist, short story writer

Kelly Cherry (21 dec 1940 – Baton Rouge LA) poet, author, essayist, former Poet Laureate of Virginia

Robin Morgan (29 jan 1941 – Lake Worth FL) poet, author, lecturer, journalist, political theorist / activist

Janice Mirikitani (04 feb 1941 – 29 jul 2021 | Stockton CA – San Francisco CA) Sensei poet, author, activist, incest survivor, literary magazine editor, co-founded Glide Memorial Church and foundation

Toi Derricotte (12 apr 1941 – Hamtramck MI) poet, professor of writing, co-founded Cave Canem Foundation summer workshop for African-American poets

Lyn Hejinian (17 may 1941 – San Francisco CA) poet, essayist, publisher, translator

Sandra Kegerreis (24 may 1941 – Elkhart IN) poet, short story writer, children’s book author

Carol Harter (01 jun 1941 – Geneseo NY) poet, author, professor, college president

Eugenia Theresa Thomas (10 jun 1941 – 27 oct 2015 | Indian Island ME – Indian Island ME) Penobscot poet, writer, storyteller, visual artist, social worker, known as ssispis

Gwendolyn MacEwen (01 sep 1941 – 29 nov 1987 | Toronto ON – Toronto ON) Canadian poet, novelist

Joan Retallack (13 oct 1941 – Manhattan NY) poet, critic, biographer, multi-disciplinary scholar

Madeline Helen Arakawa Gins (07 nov 1941 – 08 jan 2014 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, artist, author, architect, co-founded Reversible Architecture Foundation

Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (10 nov 1941 – Heber CA) poet, author, Mexican-American, professor emerita, focus on Chicano literature

Rachel Blau DePlessis (14 dec 1941 – Brooklyn NY) poet, essayist, professor emerita, feminist critic, scholar with special focus on modernist / contemporary poetry

Pat Mora (19 jan 1942 – El Paso TX) Latina-American poet, non-fiction author, public radio show host, children’s book writer

Janine Pommy Vega (05 feb 1942 – 23 dec 2010 | Jersey City NJ – Willow NY) Beat poet, women’s / prisoners rights activist, arts educator with Incisions/Arts organisation, PEN Prison Writing Committee member / practitioner

Stephanie Strickland (22 feb 1942 – Detroit MI) poet, essayist, anthologist, fiction / non-fiction writer, digital literature advocate

Erica Mann Jong (26 mar 1942 – New York NY) poet, teacher, second-wave feminist, fiction / nonfiction writer

Frances Esther Ruley Karttunen (16 apr 1942 – US) poet, author, academic, linguistic historian

Daphne Buckle Marlatt (11 jul 1942 – Melbourne AUS) poet, author, novelist, teacher, feminist, Australian-Canadian 

Frances Susan Hill Itani (25 aug 1942 – Belleville ON) poet, essayist, fiction writer

Anitra Ford (03 sep 1942 – US) poet, model, actress, photographer

Sue Owen (05 sep 1942 –  Cambridge MA) poet activist, dark humor poet, poetry professor

Linda Alouise Gregg (09 sep 1942 – 20 mar 2019 | Suffern NY – New York NY) poet, poetry professor

Wendy Bean Barker (22 sep 1942 – Summit NJ) poet, academic

Susan Mesinai (25 sep 1942 – Detroit MI) poet, author, researcher, human rights / disappeared prisoners activist

Sharon Olds (19 nov 1942 – San Francisco CA) poet, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Marilyn Hacker (27 nov 1942 – Bronx NY) Jewish-American poet, critic, translator, professor

Betty Kay Ageloff Aberlin (30 dec 1942 – New York NY) poet, writer, actress, literary website contributor, late-night jazz / poetry / spoken radio show host

Janet Sternburg (18 jan 1943 – Boston MA) poet, essayist, memoirist, fine art photographer

Judith Arcana (05 feb 1943 – Cleveland OH) poet, author, essayist, short story writer

Louise Elisabeth Gluck (22 apr 1943 – New York NY) poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

Maureen Scott Harris (24 apr 1943 – Prince Rupert BC) poet, essayist

Joyce Rupp (08 jun 1943 – Iowa US) poet, author, memoirist, religious sister, spiritual midwife, retreat / conference speaker, Institute of Compassionate Presence co-director

Enid Dame (28 jun 1943 – 25 dec 2003 | Beaver Falls PA – Brooklyn NY) poet, editor, teacher, publisher, fiction writer

Maureen Owen (06 jul 1943 – Graceville MN) poet, editor, biographer, anthologist

Tess Gallagher (21 jul 1943 –Port Angeles WA) poet, author, essayist, playwright

Sandra McPherson (02 aug 1943 – San Jose CA) poet, professor emerita

Senga Nengudi (18 sep 1943 – Chicago IL) poet, painter, curator, writer, born Sue Irons, visual artist, found object artist, installation and performance artist, aka Harriet Chin, Propecia Lee, Lily B. Moor

Nicole Brossard (27 nov 1943 – Montreal QC) Canadian novelist, formalist poet

Arleen Schloss (12 dec 1943 – Brooklyn NY) curator, director, art pioneer, sound poet, film / video artist,performance art pioneer

Sandra Alcosser (03 feb 1944 – Washington DC) poet, professor, first Poet Laureate of Montana State

Alice Malsenior Walker (09 feb 1944 – Eatenton GA) poet, author, activist

Dorothy [Dossie] Marguerite Easton (26 feb 1944 – Andover MA) poet, non-fiction author, family therapist

J. J. Phillips (02 apr 1944 – Los Angeles CA) African-American poet, novelist, civil rights activist

Jeanne Murray Walker (27 may 1944 – Parkers Prairie MN) poet, playwright

Marjorie Welish (02 jun 1944 – New York NY) poet, artist, art critic

Bonnie Lyons (04 jul 1944 – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, essayist, academic, biographer

Sherley Anne Williams (25 aug 1944 – 06 jul 1999 | Bakersfield CA – San Diego CA) poet, novelist, professor, social critic, non-fiction author

Freya Manfred (28 nov 1944 – Minneapolis MN) poet

Akasha Gloria Hull (06 dec 1944 – Shreveport LA) poet, critic, writer, educator, Black feminist activist

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (27 jan 1945 – Indiana US) poet, author, Jungian analyst, post-trauma expert specialist

Diane McGifford (26 mar 1945 – Manchester UK) Canadian, politician, literacy activist, poetry editor, nonfiction author

Haruko Okano (26 mar 1945 – Toronto ON) poet, artist, writer, Japanese-Canadian, process-based / collaborative / multidisciplinary / mixed-media artist

Anne Waldman (02 apr 1945 – Millville NJ) poet, editor, writer, scholar, professor, performer, collaborator, cultural / political activist, member of Outrider experimental poetry community

Annie Dillard (30 apr 1945 – Pittsburgh PA) poet, critic, novelist, essayist, fiction / non-fiction author

Norma Cole (12 may 1945 – Toronto ON) poet, curator, visual artist, translator

Bernadette Mayer (12 may 1945 – Brooklyn NY) poet, writer, editor, visual artist

Suzan Shown Harjo (02 jun 1945 – El Reno OK) poet, writer, lecturer, curator, policy advocate, Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee, Native American rights activist, president Morning Star Institute

Janet Kauffman (10 jun 1945 – Lancaster PA) poet, novelist, mixed media artist

Susham Bedi (01 jul 1945 – 20 mar 2020 | Firozpur IND – Scarsdale NY) Indian-American poet, author, novelist, short story writer, Hindi professor

Susan Evans McCloud (28 jul 1945 – Utah US) poet, author, novelist, hymn writer, member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Janet Hamill (29 jul 1945 – Jersey City NJ) poet, spoken word artist

Sharon Creech (29 jul 1945 – South Euclid OH) poet, former teacher, children’s novelist, low fantasy / magic realism writer

Joan Murray (06 aug 1945 – New York NY) poet, editor, writer, playwright

Rachel Pollack (17 aug 1945 – Brooklyn NY) poet, novelist, essayist, sci-fi author, comic book writer, divinatory tarot expert, women’s spirituality activist

Kay Ryan (21 sep 1945 – San Jose CA) poet, educator, former US Poet Laureate [2008-10]

Katherine Karen Dunn (24 oct 1945 – 11 may 2016 | Garden City KS – Portland OR) poet, novelist, journalist, voice artist, book reviewer, radio personality

Barbara Wiedemann (30 oct 1945 – Somerville NJ) poet, co-editor, former professor

Leilani [Lani] Hall (06 nov 1945 – Chicago IL) poet, singer, author, lyricist, memoirist, producer, short fiction writer

Alice Elizabeth Notley (08 nov 1945 – Bisbee AZ) poet, critic, editor, biographer, essayist

Verandah Porche (08 nov 1945 – Teaneck NJ) poet, author, memoirist, born Linda Jacobs, founding member Total Loss Farm ongoing commune in Guilford VT

Gretel Ehrlich (21 jan 1946 – Santa Barbara CA) poet, essayist, travel writer

Patricia Monaghan (15 feb 1946 – 11 nov 2012 | Brooklyn NY – Black Earth MN) poet, author, women’s spirituality movement leader, founded The Black Earth Institute, co-developed the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology

Beverly Matherne (15 mar 1946 – Acadiana LA) poet, writer

Lee Mallory (16 mar 1946 – San Mateo CA) poet, editor, retired academic

Marilyn Nelson Waniek (26 apr 1946 – Cleveland OH) poet, translator, children’s book author, former Poet Laureate of Connecticut

Rosemary Aubert (04 may 1946 – Niagara Falls NY) poet, critic, author, crime novelist, Canadian-American

Isabel Campoy (25 jun 1946 – Alicante ES) Spanish-American, translator, multi-genre writer of poetry, pedagogical books, children’s literature, textbook reading program  materials

Donna Hilbert (25 jun 1946 – Grandfield OK) poet, essayist, playwright, philanthropist, short story writer, social justice / community arts activist, Progressive Dinner Party founding member

Maura Stanton (09 sep 1946 – Evanston IL) poet, novelist, anthologist, poetry critic, short fiction writer

Andrea Dworkin (26 sep 1946 – 09 apr 2005 | Camden NJ – Washington DC) poet, author, speaker, essayist, radical feminist,  autobiographical writer, anti-pornography movement leader

Patricia Roth Schwartz (12 oct 1946 – West Virginia US) poet, editor, playwright, psychotherapist, creative writing teacher

Suzanne Jill Levine (21 oct 1946 – New York NY) poet, critic, translator, translation scholar, specialist in Latin American literature

Mary Jo Bang (22 oct 1946 – Waynesville MO) poet

Michelle Carla Cliff (02 nov 1946 – 12 jun 2016 | Kingston JAM – Santa Cruz CA) Jamaican-American poet, editor, novelist, teacher

Chrystos Lieve Snellings (07 nov 1946 – San Francisco CA) fine artist, Menominee poet, Native American rights activist, lesbian / two-spirit writer

Wanda Evans Coleman (13 nov 1946 – 22 nov 2003 | Los Angeles CA – Los Angeles) poet, aka L.A. Blueswoman, unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles

Valentina Arina Alieva Battler (18 nov 1946 – Astrakhan RU) Russian-Canadian poet, artist, Chinese brush painter

Patricia Lee [Patti] Smith (30 dec 1946 – Chicago IL) poet, memoirist, visual artist, singer-songwriter, children’s book author

Norma Elia Cantú (03 jan 1947 – Nuevo Laredo MX) Mexican-American, poet, essayist, short fiction writer, English professor, Chicana author and book reviewer

Carolyn Zonailo (21 jan 1947 – Vancouver BC) poet, publisher, founded Caitlin Press, studied Jungian psychology, mythology, astrology

Ann Fisher-Wirth (25 jan 1947 – Washington DC) poet, scholar, born Ann Carolyn Welpton

Karla Huston (11 feb 1947 – La Crosse WI) poet, novelist, former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin

Judith Tannenbaum (13 feb 1947 – 05 dec 2019 | Chicago IL – San Francisco CA) poet, artist, writer, teacher, community-based arts organizer

Camille Anna Paglia (02 apr 1947 – Endicott NY) poet, author, essayist, professor, cultural critic, dissident feminist, political libertarian, women’s sexual history theorist

Barbara Jean Santucci (11 apr 1947 – Chicago IL) poet, artist, lecturer, storyteller, children’s author

Rae Armantrout (13 apr 1947 – Vallejo CA) Language poet

Karen Lehman [Kathy] Acker (18 apr 1947 – 30 nov 1997 | New York NY – Tijuana MX) writer, essayist, punk poet, playwright, sex-positive feminist, performance artist, experimental novelist

Andrea Hollander Budy (28 apr 1947 – Berlin DEU) US poet, editor, author

Barbara Barg (29 apr 1947 – 22 may 2018 | Memphis TN – Chicago IL) poet, writer, musician

Margaret Sloan-Hunter (31 may 1947 – 23 sep 2004 | Chattanooga TN – Oakland CA) poet, public speaker, editor of Ms. magazine, civil rights advocate, black feminist lesbian, co-founded Women’s Foundation, National Black Feminist Organization [NBFO], Berkeley Women’s Center and Feminist School for Girls

Susan McCaslin (03 jun 1947 – BC) poet, editor, author, essayist, educator,  memoirist, essayist, children’s author, creative nonfiction writer

Linda Hogan (16 jul 1947 – Denver CO) poet, novelist, academic, storyteller, playwright, short fiction writer, environmentalist, Chickasaw Nation’s Writer in Residence

Jana Harris (21 sep 1947 – San Francisco CA) poet, novelist, essayist, founding editor Switched-on Gutengerg [one of internet’s first electronic poetry journals]

Mary Fell (22 sep 1947 – Worcester MA) poet, academic

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (05 oct 1947 – Beijing CN) Chinese-American poet, visual artist, prose writer

Maureen Seaton (20 oct 1947 – Elizabeth NJ) LGBT poet, activist, memoirist, professor of English

Florence [Ai] Anthony (21 oct 1947 – 20 mar 2010 | Albany TX – Stillwater OK) poet, educator

Marilyn Jean Buck (13 dec 1947 – 03 aug 2010 | Midland TX – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, convict, feminist, Marxist revolutionary

Ericka Jenkins Huggins (05 jan 1948 – Washington DC) poet, activist, author, educator, sociology professor, former Black Panther Party leader

Isabella Russell-Ides (24 jan 1948 – Texas US) poet, playwright, memoirist

Julia B. Cameron (04 mar 1948 – Libertyville IL) poet, artist, author, teacher, essayist, journalist, filmmaker, playwright

Leslie Marmon Silko (05 mar 1948 – Albuquerque NM) poet, novelist, filmmaker, short fiction writer

Joan D. Vinge (02 apr 1948 – Baltimore MD) poet, short story writer, serial science fiction author, born Joan Carol Dennison

Wendy Rose (08 may 1948 – Oakland CA) poet, artist, Hopi / Miwok, social scientist, anthropologist, aka Chiron Khanshendel, born Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards

Carmen Rodríguez (19 jun 1948 – Valdivia CL) Chilean-Canadian poet, author, educator, social activist, political refugee, founding member of Aquelarre Magazine

Heather McHugh (20 aug 1948 – San Diego CA) poet, editor, essayist, educator, translator, caregiver-respite provider

Jewelle Gomez (11 sep 1948 – Boston MA) poet, critic, author, playwright

Maggie Anderson (23 sep 1948 – New York NY) Appalachian poet, editor

Diane Ackerman (07 oct 1948 – Waukegan IL) poet, author, naturalist

Becky Birtha (11 oct 1948 – Hampton VA) poet, short fiction writer, children’s author

Susan Firer (14 oct 1948 – Milwaukee WI) poet, author, former Milwaukee Poet Laureate, former editor Shepherd Express online poetry column

Ntozake Shange (18 oct 1948 – 27 oct 2018 | Trenton NJ – Bowie MD) poet, playwright, black feminist, born Paulette L. Williams

Barbara Henning (26 oct 1948 – Detroit MI) poet, novelist, fiction writer

Rachel Hadas (08 nov 1948 – New York NY) poet, teacher, essayist, translator

Laura Linnea Jensen (16 nov 1948 – Tacoma WA) poet

Pearl Cleage (07 dec 1948 – Springfield MA) African-American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, non-fiction author

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (18 dec 1948 – Reinbek DEU) German-American poet, artist, painter, novelist, educator, children’s speculative fiction author

Katherine Ann Power (25 jan 1949 – Denver CO) poet, author, professor, AIDS activist, former ex-convict / long-time fugitive, born Alice Louise Metzinger

Maja Herman Sekulić (17 feb 1949 – Belgrade RS) Serbian-American poet, critic, novelist, essayist, translator

Helen Marie Frost (04 mar 1949 – Brookings SD) poet, author, educator, young adult novelist

Lynn Collins Emanuel (14 mar 1949 – Mt Kisco NY) poet, professor

Marilyn Bowering (13 apr 1949 – Winnipeg MB) poet, novelist, playwright

George Ella Lyon (25 apr 1949 – Harlan KY) poet, essayist, children’s picture book author, juvenile novelist

Olga Broumas (06 may 1949 – Hermoupolis GR) Greek-American poet

Jane Urquhart (21 jun 1949 – Little Longlac ON) poet, novelist, biographer, short fiction writer

Louise Dupré (09 jul 1949 – Sherbrooke QC) poet, author, editor, journalist

Hedwig Gorski (18 jul 1949 – Trenton NJ) scholar, avant-garde artist, performance poet

Joyce Sutphen (10 aug 1949 – St Joseph MN) poet, Minnesota Poet Laureate

Katha Pollitt (14 oct 1949 – Brooklyn NY) poet, critic, essayist, feminist, columnist, non-fiction author

Francine Allard (16 oct 1949 – Verdun QC) poet, novelist, educator, visual artist

Gayl Jones (23 nov 1949 – Lexington KY) African-American poet, novelist, playwright, professor, literary critic

Lotti Golden (27 nov 1949 – New York NY) poet, artist, writer, singer-songwriter, record producer

Eileen Myles (09 dec 1949 – Cambridge MA) poet, author, novelist, librettist, playwright, performance artist

Gerina Dunwich (27 dec 1959 – Chicago IL) author, Wiccan, pagan poet, occult historian, professional astrologer, Paranormal Animal Research Group founder

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1950s

Jessica Amanda Salmonson (06 jan 1950 – Seattle WA) poet, editor, fantasy / horror fiction author

Julia Alvarez (27 mar 1950 – New York NY) poet, novelist, essayist

Melba Joyce Boyd (02 apr 1950 – US) poet, editor, author, essayist, professor, biographer, filmmaker, former Fulbright Scholar, African-American film and literature critic, Africana / African American Studies Program chair / director

Cheryl Savageau (14 apr 1950 – Massachusetts US) poet, painter, Abenaki, feminist, visual artist, quiltmaker, children’s author

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (02 may 1950 – 12 apr 2009 | Dayton OH – New York NY) poet, critic, author, academic, queer / gender / critical studies scholar

Jorie Graham (09 may 1950 – New York NY) poet, former Academy of American Poets Chancellor

Marianne Boruch (19 jun 1950 – Chicago IL) poet, essayist, memoirist

Anne Carson (21 jun 1950 – Toronto ON) poet, essayist, translator, Classics professor

Lee Maracle (02 jul 1950 – Vancouver BC) First Nations Coast Salish poet, fiction / nonfiction author

Ramona Lofton (04 aug 1950 – Fort Ord CA) poet, author, novelist, aka Sapphire, openly bisexual, performance artist, incest / sexual abuse survivor, former reading / writing teacher, United Lesbians of Color for Change activist

Linda Gregerson (05 aug 1950 – Illinois US) poet, professor, Chancellor of Academy of American Poets [2014]

Chase Twichell (20 aug 1950 – New Haven CT) poet, professor, publisher, founded Ausable Press

Susan Deer Cloud (20 oct 1950 – Livingston Manor NY) poet, editor, Catskill native, aka Susan Clements, creative writing professor, fiction / non-fiction writer

Nikki Grimes (20 oct 1950 – New York NY) poet, journalist, young adult novelist, children’s picture book author

Jane Ellen Ibur (21 oct 1950 – St. Louis MO) poet, arts educator, literacy activist, former co-anchor / co-producer of literary radio show Literature for the Halibut, founder / poet educator of innovative Community Arts Training [CAT], facilitates writing workshops Pets and Writers Ink for students / veterans / prisoners

Pauline Harvey (17 nov 1950 – Alma QC) poet, novelist, reporter, government translator

Marie Laberge (29 nov 1950 – Montreal QC) poet, author, actress, educator, lyricist, playwright

Maurya Simon (07 dec 1950 – New York NY) poet, essayist, visual artist

Sharon [Safiya] Henderson-Holmes (30 dec 1950 – 08 apr 2001 | Bronx NY – New York NY) poet, natural birth / physical therapist, professor at Syracuse University, involved in Poets and Writers, Art Against Apartheid, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship

Donna Baier Stein (05 jan 1951 – Kansas City MO) poet, editor, author, copywriter, publisher, short fiction writer

Susan Musgrave (12 mar 1951 – Santa Cruz CA) American-Canadian poet, memoirist, children’s writer, fiction/non-fiction author, creative writing professor

Brenda Hillman (27 mar 1951 – Tucson AZ) poet, translator, professor, non-violent activist

Joy Foster Harjo (09 may 1951 – Tulsa OK) Mvskoke poet, author, musician, Native American Renaissance writer

Elisabeth Brooks (02 jul 1951 – 07 sep 1997 | Toronto ON – Palm Springs CA) poet, writer, singer, actress, children’s playwright

Ivy Eberhart Bannister (11 jul 1951 – New York NY) poet, memoirist, short fiction writer

Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman (16 jul 1951 – New York NY) poet, short story writer, fantasy / science fiction author

Gracia Couturier (14 aug 1951 – Edmundston NB) author, haiku poet, educator, playwright, children’s writer, founding director university theatre centre

Margarita Engle (02 sep 1951 – Pasadena CA) Cuban-American writer, botanist, young adult poet / novelist

Susan Powers Bourne (17 sep 1951 – Providence RI) poet, artist, editor, author, herstorian

Meredith Yearsley Quartermain (01 oct 1951 – Toronto ON) Canadian poet

Dorianne Laux (10 jan 1952 – Augusta ME) poet, creative writing professor

Carla Harryman (11 jan 1952 – Orange CA) poet, essayist, co-editor, playwright, creative writing professor, associated with Language poets

Betty Susan [Batya] Weinbaum (02 feb 1952 – Ann Arbor MI) poet, artist, feminist, essayist, professor, political activist, founding editor Femspec Journal

Nancy Elise Howell Etchemendy (19 feb 1952 – Reno NV) poet, novelist, speculative short story writer

Judith Ortiz Cofer (24 feb 1952 – 30 dec 2016 | Hormigueros PR – Louisville GA) poet, essayist, short story writer, autobiographical author, young adult novelist

Naomi Shihab Nye (12 mar 1952 – St Louis MO) Palestinian-American poet, editor, novelist, songwriter, short fiction author

Laura Moriarty (08 apr 1952 – St. Paul MN) poet, novelist

Alice Persons (23 apr 1952 – Waltham MA) poet, poetry judge, guest editor, co-founded Moon Pie Press

Willa Hope Schneberg (21 may 1952 – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, interdisciplinary artist, art therapy activist / educator

Monnette Goldman Sudler (05 jun 1952 – Philadelphia PA) poet, composer, guitarist, jazz musician

Julie Kane (20 jul 1952 – Boston MA) poet, editor, scholar, memoirist, Louisiana Poet Laureate

Rita Frances Dove (28 aug 1952 – Akron OH) poet, author, professor, Pulitzer Prize laureate for Poetry, former Poet Laureate of the US and Virginia State, former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to US Library of Congress

Linda D. Addison (08 sep 1952 – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, fiction writer, founding member of CITH [Circles in the Hair] writing group

bell hooks (25 sep 1952 – Hopkinsville KY) poet, author, speaker, feminist, social activist, née Gloria Jean Watkins

Cherrie Lawrence Moraga (25 sep 1952 – Whittier CA) poet, Chicana, essayist, playwright, feminist activist

Candas Jane Dorsey (16 nov 1952 – Edmonton AB) Canadian poet, editor, essayist, sci-fi novelist, arts journalist, short / long fiction writer

Crescent Dragonwagon (25 nov 1952 – New York NY) poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist, cookbook author, magazine writer, children’s book writer, born Ellen Zolotow, literary family member, literary executor for parents Charlotte Zolotow and Maurice Zolotow

Dionne Brand (07 jan 1953 –  Guayaguayare TT) Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, documentarian, third Poet Laureate of Toronto

Giannina Braschi (05 feb 1953 – San Juan PR) poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, Puerto Rican-American, credited with first Spanglish novel

Susan Stewart (15 mar 1953 – US) poet, author, professor, literary critic

ahdri zhina mandiela (10 may 1953 – JAM) dub poet, theater producer, artistic director, Jamaican-Canadian [intentional lowercase name]

Jane Greer (25 may 1953 – US) poet, writing teacher, Plains Poetry Journal founder, former civil servant for State of North Dakota

Ana Castillo (15 jun 1953 – Chicago IL) poet, editor, novelist, essayist, translator, playwright, short story writer, independent scholar

Harryette Mullen (01 jul 1953 –Florence AL ) poet, literary scholar, short story writer

Rosanna Warren (27 jul 1953 – Fairfield CT) poet, artist, scholar, professor

Lucy Tapahonso (08 nov 1953 – Shiprock NM) poet, Navajo-English translator, lecturer in Native American Studies, first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation

Victoria Valentine (18 jan 1954 – Westchester NY) poet, author, entrepreneur, indie book publisher

Aurora Levins Morales (24 feb 1954 – Maricao PR) poet, writer, feminist, social justice activist

Thylias Moss (27 feb 1954 – Cleveland OH) poet, writer, playwright, sound artist, experimental filmmaker

Stephanie Sinclaire (28 feb 1954 – Boston MA) poet, artist, curator, painter, producer, film / theater director, aka Stephanie Crawford, born Stephanie Anne Weiss, director of Dragonlady Films and Theatre

Sarah Gorham (30 mar 1954 – Kentucky US) poet, essayist, publisher

Sarah Arvio (03 apr 1954 – Philadelphia PA) poet, essayist, translator

Teresa Katz [T.K.] Thorne (17 apr 1954 – Montgomery AL) poet, screenwriter, short fiction author, community activist, first Jewish female officer Birmingham (AL) Police

Pamela Gemin (20 apr 1954 – US) poet, editor, author, associate professor of English

Ella Mae Lentz (05 may 1954 – Berkeley CA) poet, author, teacher, deaf advocate, American Sign Language (ASL) researcher, training / educational material developer

Cynthia Rylant (06 jun 1954 – Hopewell WV) poet, librarian, children’s book writer, autobiographer

Jane Eaton Hamilton (19 jul 1954 – Hamilton ON)  poet, visual artist, photographer, short story writer

Lorna Dee Cervantes (06 aug 1954 – San Francisco CA) poet, editor, professor, publisher, philosopher

Mary Jo Salter (15 aug 1954 – Grand Rapids MI) poet, editor, essayist, playwright, children’s author

Ally Acker (17 aug 1954 – New York NY) poet, author, filmmaker, interviewer, film herstorian, first female FCC First Class Radiotelephone Operator licensee, producer for Feminist Radio Network, founded Reel Women Trust Foundation and Reel Women in Film Collection

Terry Wolverton (23 aug 1954 – Cocoa Beach FL) poet, editor, novelist, memorist

Anne Barrett Rouse (26 sep 1954 – Washington DC) American-British poet

Christiane Frenette (18 nov 1954 – Quebec City QC) poet, writer, educator

Grace Andreacchi (03 dec 1954 – New York NY) poet, novelist, playwright

Sheree-Lee Olson (11 dec 1954 – Picton ON) Canadian poet, novelist, journalist

Sandra Cisneros (20 dec 1954 – Chicago IL) poet, novelist, short story writer

Mary Karr (16 jan 1955 – Texas US) poet, feminist, essayist, memoirist, Guggenheim Fellow, pro-choice / pro-women’s ordination Catholic convert

Siri Hustvedt (19 feb 1955 – Northfield MN) Norwegian-American poet, novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer

Erica Hunt (12 mar 1955 – Manhattan NY) poet, essayist, professor, organizer, memoirist, Language poet, non-fiction author, literary critic, political activist

Ellen Hopkins (26 mar 1955 – Long Beach CA) poet, novelist, nonfiction children’s book author

Barbara Kingsolver (08 apr 1955 – Annapolis MD) poet, novelist, essayist

Erin Moure (17 apr 1955 – Calgary AB) poet, poetry translator

Susan Marie Swanson (19 may 1955 – Hinsdale IL) poet, educator, children’s author

Marjorie Agosin (15 jun 1955 – Maryland US) poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, professor, Chilean-American, Chilean women’s rights activist / advocate

Susan Wheeler (16 jul 1955 – Pittsburgh PA) poet, educator, Director of Creative Writing at Princeton

Terry Tempest Williams (08 sep 1955 – Corona CA) poet, author, activist, conservationist

Lucinda Roy (19 dec 1955 – Battersea UK) British-American poet, novelist, educator

Janet Elizabeth Aalfs (14 aug 1956 – Elmira NY) poet, martial artist, community educator, founder / director Lotus Peace Arts, former Poet Laureate of Northampton MA [2003-05]

Jennivien Diana Brebner (20 may 1956 – 29 apr 2001 | Kingston ON – Ottawa ON) poet

Lucie Brock-Broido (22 may 1956 – 06 mar 2018 | Pittsburgh PA – Cambridge MA) poet

Joyce Sidman (04 jun 1956 – Hartford CT) poet, children’s book author

Achy Obejas (28 jun 1956 – Havana CU) Cuban-American poet, editor, novelist, translator, journalist

Pamela Porter (14 jul 1956 – Albuquerque NM) American-born Canadian poet, novelist

Regina A. Harris Baiocchi (16 jul 1956 – Chicago IL) poet, musician, composer, music educator, short fiction writer

Janet Elizabeth Aalfs (14 aug 1956 – Elmira NY) poet, martial artist, founding director of Lotus Peace Arts, former poet laureate of Northampton MA, founding member of Valley Women’s Martial Arts and National Women’s Martial Arts Federation

Annie Finch (31 oct 1956 – New Rochelle NY) poet, writer, librettist, translator

Diane Ward (09 nov 1956 – Washington DC) poet, poetry teacher, associated with first wave of Language poetry

Sheree Fitch (03 dec 1956 – Ottawa ON) poet, author, children’s writer, literacy advocate

Susan Minot (07 dec 1956 – Boston MA) poet, painter, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, short fiction author

Sharon Skinner (21 dec 1956 – Buffalo NY) poet, author, recording artist

Leslie McGrath Taylor (15 jun 1957 – 07 aug 2020 | Bridgeport CT – Farmington CT) poet, educator, former editor online arts journal Drunken Boat

Jane Hamilton (13 jul 1957 – Oak Park IL) poet, novelist, short fiction writer

Lynn Carol [Nikky] Finney (26 aug 1957 – Conway SC) poet, professor, short fiction author, social justice / cultural preservation advocate

Dorothy Barresi (13 nov 1957 – Buffalo NY) poet, contemporary poetry judge

Myung Mi Kim (06 dec 1957 – Seoul SK) Korean-American, post-modern poet, professor

Brenda Marie Osbey (12 dec 1957 – New Orleans LA) poet

Vanna Bonta (03 apr 1958 – 08 jul 2014 | Florence IT – Los Angeles CA) poet, actress, novelist, inventor, social commentator

Marusya Bociurkiw (25 may 1958 – Edmonton AB) Ukrainian-Canadian poet, activist, novelist, memoirist, professor, filmmaker, film director, short fiction author, media studies scholar, media organizations founder and co-founder

Susan [Suzie] Plakson (03 jun 1958 – Buffalo NY) poet, artist, singer, writer, actress

Marjory Heath Wentworth (03 jun 1958 – Lynn MA) poet, South Carolina Poet Laureate

Monique Deland (06 jul 1958 – Montreal QC) poet, artist, educator, journalist, poetry critic, former poetry magazine editor

Margaret Ann [Gretta] Vosper (06 jul 1958 – Kingston ON) poet, atheist, author, United Church of Canada minister, founded Canadian Center for Progressive Christianity

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (04 aug 1958 – Amarillo TX) poet, artist, author, editor, educator, organizer, performer, filmmaker

Jane Mead (13 aug 1958 – 08 sep 2019 | Baltimore MD – Napa CA) poet

Lucia Maria Perillo (30 sep 1958 – 16 oct 2016 | New York NY – Olympia WA) poet, creative writing professor

Neile Graham (08 oct 1958 – Winnipeg, Manitoba) poet, scholar

Dawn-Michelle Baude (15 jan 1959 – Belleville IL) poet, essayist, educator, journalist, translator, fiction / nonfiction author

Nancy Holmes (09 feb 1959 – Edmonton ON) poet, educator, short fiction writer, creative writing professor

Pleasant Gehman (17 mar 1959 – Hollywood CA) poet, author, dancer, actress, musician, memoirist, aka Princess Farhana

Santhini Govindan (20 mar 1959 – San Francisco CA) children’s poet, picture book author, short story writer

Martha Hollander (24 mar 1959 – New York NY) poet, author, art historian

Suzanne Vega (11 jul 1959 – Santa Monica CA) poet, guitarist, musician, playwright, synesthete, singer-songwriter, record producer, Nichiren Buddhist practitioner

Marie Michelle Curie (30 nov 1959 – Encino CA) poet, twin, artist, singer, actress, songwriter, producer

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (26 nov 1959 – Mexico) poet, author, academic, cultural studies / feminist theory / Chicana and Latin American literature scholar, former Commissioner for Washington State Arts Commission