Jana Leo founded Civic Gaps, a New York think tank dedicated to studying empty or neglected spaces in the city. She also founded the MOSIS Foundation, an urban planning think tank in Madrid that builds and tests models which strive to connect people and places through art.
Read MoreGypsy Rose Lee (1911–1970) was the most famous burlesque actor and striptease artist of her day.
Read MoreViolette Leduc (1907-1972) has been referred to as "France's greatest unknown writer."
Read MoreMary M. Lay is a professor of rhetoric and a director of graduate studies in the scientific and technical communication program at the University of Minnesota.
Read MoreMargery Latimer (1899-1932) published two collections of short fiction.
Read MoreAnn Leonard is the editor of Seeds and Seeds 2.
Read MoreCassandra Lane is an LA-based writer and editor.
Read MoreAnn J. Lane is a professor of history and the director of women's studies at the University of Virginia. She is author of To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Read MoreK. Lalita directs the Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies at Osmania University in Hyderabad.
Read MoreKang Kyong-ae (1906-1944) lived and wrote in Japan-ruled Korea.
Read MoreGoretti Kyomuhendo was born and raised in Hoima, Western Uganda. She started writing in 1992 for Kampala-based newspapers and has since expanded in writing fiction; she has published four novels. Kyomuhendo also co-founded FEMRITE, a women's publishing house.
Read MoreRowena Kennedy-Epstein is the editor of Muriel Rukeyser’s novel Savage Coast. Her scholarship and writing have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers. She is currently teaching at the University of Bristol.
Read MoreEsther Kreitman (1891-1954) was born in Poland, raised in Warsaw and married in Antwerp. Kreitman and her family fled at the start of World War I. She was the author of two novels and a collection of short stories.
Read MoreHanna Krall was born in 1935 in Poland and survived the Second World War hiding in a cupboard. She began her writing career as a prize-winning journalist. Since the early 80s she has worked as a novelist. She has received numerous Polish and international awards. Translated into seventeen languages, her work has gained widespread recognition.
Read MoreFadumo Korn is the vice president of FORWARD-Germany, an organization dedicated to promoting action to stop FGM.
Read MoreSusan Koppelman is a literary historian, acknowledged as the leading authority on the women's short story in the United States. Her anthologies include Between Mothers and Daughters and The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe.
Read MoreEdith Konecky is a Jewish American feminist writer.
Read MoreRuth Kluger is a professor emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the author of five books of literary criticism.
Read MoreMuriel Kittel's translations of French, Italian, and Spanish poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies and she has translated Faith, Reason and the Plague by Carlo M. Cipolla.
Read MoreLesley Kinzel has been engaging with body politics and social justice activism for well over a decade. She co-founded and moderated the blog Fatshionista for five years (2005-2010), which has turned her into an online celebrity in the communities of fat acceptance, fashion, and women’s issues.
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