Barbara Bick (1925-2009) was a longtime peace and human rights activist, and the author of Culture and Politics and Walking the Precipice.
Read MoreJacqueline Bernard (1921 - 1983) was a reporter, activist, and author.
Read MoreBruce Benderson is the translator of many authors from the French, including Virginie Despentes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Celine Dion. He is also the author of several novels and works of nonfiction.
Read MoreFaith Baldwin (1893-1978) was one of the most prolific mid-twentieth century authors of popular fiction. She published eighty-five books between 1921 and 1977, many of them focused on women juggling family and career, including White Collar Girl, Men Are Such Fools!, and An Apartment for Peggy, which was made into a Hollywood film in 1948.
Read MoreDina Bakst, co-president of A Better Balance, cofounded the organization to advance the legal rights of pregnant women and caregivers in the American workplace.
Read MoreAsja Bakić (1982) is a Bosnian poet, writer, and translator.
Read MoreHelène Aylon was a visual, conceptual, installation performance artist and eco-feminist.
Read MoreArlene Voski Avakian is on the women's studies faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is editor of Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking.
Read MoreMary Austin (1868 – 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest with her most famous work, The Land of Little Rain (1903).
Read MoreJune Arnold (1926-1982) is the author of Applesauce (1966), The Cook and the Carpenter (1973), and Sister Gin (1975). Her fourth novel, Baby Houston, was published posthumously in 1987.
Read MoreElecta Arenal, professor emeritus of Hispanic and Women's Studies (City University of New York), is a translator and specialist in Hispanic monastic women's culture. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Center for the Study of Women and Society and coordinated the Women's Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center/CUNY.
Read MoreIqbal Al-Qazwini is an Iraqi exile with a human rights background, and has lived in Berlin since 1978.
Read MoreCathy Applegate grew up in Melbourne, Australia. After earning a medical degree, she established a general practice in Darwin, where she now lives with her husband and three children. Her books for young readers include Where's Itchy? and Rain Dance. Applegate also composes music and is currently working on a piece for guitar quartet, cello, and piano.
Read MoreLalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985)is a Malayalam writer from Kerala, India.
Read MoreMaría Fernanda Ampuero is a writer and journalist, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Read MoreShahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic.
Read MoreKevin Allred is a writer and educator.
Read MoreBeverly Allen is a professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Stanford University. She is the editor of Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics of Heresy and the author of Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice.
Read MoreDarina Al-Joundi was born in Lebanon in 1968 to a Shiite Lebanese mother and a secular Syrian father. She began her acting career at age eight with Lebanese television.
Read MoreMeena Alexander, an award-winning poet and scholar, teaches in the PhD program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the MFA program at Hunter College.
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