Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) was a poet, professor, and social reformer. She authored the poem “America the Beautiful,” which...

Edythe Eyde (1921-2015) was an author, songwriter, and activist. In 1947, she published the first-ever lesbian publication in...

Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a poet, novelist and painter, once named “arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American...

Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) was a pioneer of autofiction and one of the most widely-read French writers in the postwar era. She...

Suniti Namjoshi (1941-present) is a poet, fabulist and mythologist born in India. Her short, playful fables and myths challenge...

Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) was an American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. With works that often...

Mae V. Cowdery (1909 – 1953) was a poet in the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. Her brief, but successful career as a...

Wu Zao (1799-c.1862) was a poet who wrote homoerotic poems and plays. Despite being married to a wealthy man, she longed for...

Laudomia (1515-unknown) is thought to be Italy’s earliest lesbian writer and may have been one of the first women who had...