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List of the most influential female people in Literature,

#2251

Erin Courtney

#165993

Overall Influence

Erin Courtney is an American playwright and visual artist from Hermosa Beach, California. Courtney is known for employing nontraditional structures in her plays, with reviewers and collaborators describing her work as "[a] delicate gem," "a visual and aural kaleidoscope," and "within a structure that is less linear than collage-like."

#2252

Salcia Landmann

#65350

Overall Influence

1911 - 2002 (91 years)

Salcia Landmann, born Salcia Passweg , was a Jewish writer. She was born in Zhovkva, Galicia, and died in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She worked on preserving the Yiddish language, and she wrote the important work Der Jüdische Witz . She was one of the founders of the International PEN in Liechtenstein. She had one son and was married to philosopher Michael Landmann since 1939.

#2253

Ikhlas Fakhri

#178812

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Ikhlas Fakhri Imarah is an Egyptian poet and university teacher. She was born in the town of Al Qalaj in Qalyubia Governorate, and self-educated, then attended the Dar al-Ulum, Cairo University. She then worked as a professor at Faiyum Branch of Cairo University. Published some poetic collections and historical and critical literary studies.

#2254

Elissa Washuta

#177340

Overall Influence

Elissa Washuta is a Native American author from the Cowlitz people of Washington State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control and My Body is a Book of Rules, about her personal history with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. She writes about sexual assault, mental health issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the Indigenous community of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

#2255

Norma Goldman

#76372

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Norma Wynick Goldman was an American classics scholar, author, professor at Wayne State University, and president of the Detroit Classical Association. Her works include textbooks of the Latin language as well as studies of Roman lamps, the architecture of the Janiculum Hill in Rome, and Roman costumes.

#2256

Kirsten Moana Thompson

#131570

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Kirsten Moana Thompson is an interdisciplinary scholar of American and New Zealand/Pacific cinema and visual culture. Thompson's work in American film has focused on classical American cel animation and the introduction of three strip Technicolor, on contemporary crime films and blockbuster and special effects cinema. Her work on Pacific cinema situates film production by American and Pacific filmmakers in broader cultural and visual contexts. She has also published on American horror film and German cinema.

#2257

Mireille Levert

#162083

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Mireille Levert is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books, living in Quebec. She was born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and studied plastic arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal, graduating in 1979. She was a founding member of the Association des illustrateurs et illustratrices du Québec. Levert taught illustration at the Université du Québec à Montréal from 1997 to 2002. She lives and works in Montreal.

#2258

Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer

#176734

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer is a professor and head of the department of Latin philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Life Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer was born in 1955 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. She studied Classical Philology and Romance at the universities of Graz and Paris.

#2259

Jacqueline Fahey

Jacqueline Fahey

#146549

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Jacqueline Mary Fahey is a New Zealand painter and writer. Biography Of Irish Catholic ancestry, Fahey was born in Timaru in 1929. Fahey had strong female role models in her life: her mother was a pianist who attended the Melbourne Conservatoire of Music and worked as a professional pianist for 8 years before returning to New Zealand, and her grandmother taught at a Dominican Convent and was "very good at languages and loved history". "These two women were my role models, really," Fahey has commented. "They gave me the idea that women were supposed to excel even if it was primarily in the ar...

#2260

Fernande Saint-Martin

#116109

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Fernande Saint-Martin was a Canadian art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer. A graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University, her career began at La Presse in 1954 before being made editor-in-chief of Châtelaine magazine in 1960. Saint-Martin left the magazine in 1972 and was made director of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She was a professor and researcher at Université Laval and later Université du Québec à Montréal from 1979 to 1996. Saint-Martin wrote several books and essays, contributed to various art publications and was awarded...

#2261

Malou Jacob

#147950

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Malou Leviste Jacob is a Filipino playwright. She was a recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award. Biography Jacob has been a resident playwright of Philippine Educational Theater Association . She finished Bachelor of Arts in Communication in Maryknoll College . She continued her studies in the field of TV production and Direction in City University of New York; and Film production in New York University. She has written and directed a lot of dramas for television and documentary films. Her works include Pagod na Ako, Irog, and a TV special about the National Artist Amado V. Hernandez. She has been...

#2262

Angie Estes

#115547

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Angie Estes is an American poet, and professor at Ashland University. She graduated from the University of Oregon with an M.A. and Ph.D. in English. She taught at California Polytechnic State University, Oberlin College, and Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly.

#2263

Christine Montross

#104414

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Christine Elaine Montross is an American medical doctor and writer. First a published poet and a high school teacher, she later took up medical studies, and became an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's Alpert Medical School. She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.

#2264

Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez

#102200

Overall Influence

Yolanda Broyles-González is a Yaqui-Chicana professor, writer, and activist. Her teaching and research focus on Native American culture in addition the popular performance genres of the US-Mexico borderlands.

#2265

Ana-Maurine Lara

#111415

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Ana-Maurine Lara is a Dominican American lesbian poet, novelist and black feminist scholar. Lara is a long-time LGBT human rights activist and supporter, having served on the board of directors for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

#2266

Elyssa East

#173620

Overall Influence

Elyssa East is an American nonfiction writer. She is the author of the creative nonfiction book Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, which chronicles a murder that occurred in an area known as Dogtown, Massachusetts, just outside Gloucester, in 1984. As part of her research for the book, East interviewed the murderer, Peter Hodgkins, in prison. This nonfiction book won the 2010 L. L. Winship/P.E.N. New England Award and has been critically reviewed. According to East, the book was inspired in part by the paintings of Dogtown by Marsden Hartley.

#2267

Ann Downer

#148280

Overall Influence

1960 - 2015 (55 years)

Ann Downer was an American writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and young adults, as well as short fiction and poetry. Biography Ann Downer was born in Arlington, Virginia in 1960 and grew up in Manila and Bangkok and recalled avidly reading fantasy fiction.

#2268

Betty Shamieh

#113785

Overall Influence

Betty Shamieh is an American playwright, author, screenwriter, and actor of Palestinian descent. She has written 15 plays. Background Shamieh was born in San Francisco, California. She holds degrees from Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.

#2269

Paula Cizmar

#173880

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Paula Cizmar is an American academic, playwright and librettist. Cizmar's work has been selected for EnVision, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a nomination to The Kilroy List, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation; and a TCG/Mellon Foundation On the Road grant. .She has served residencies at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy;

#2270

Constance Bartlett Hieatt

#119406

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

Constance Bartlett Hieatt was an American scholar with a broad interest in medieval languages and literatures, including Old Norse literature, Anglo-Saxon prosody and literature, and Middle English language, literature, and culture. She was an editor and translator of Karlamagnús saga, of Beowulf, and a scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer. She was particularly known as one of the world's foremost experts in English medieval cooking and cookbooks, and authored and co-authored a number of important books considered essential publications in the field.

#2271

Anuja Akathoottu

#74134

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (37 years)

Anuja Akathoottu is a Malayalam language poet and short story writer from Kerala, India. In 2019, she received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for her collection of poems Amma Urangunnilla. Biography Anuja A. R. popularly known as Anuja Akathoottu was born in 1987 in Paipra near Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district, as the daughter of Paipra Radhakrishnan and Nalini Bekal. She was educated at Sacred Heart, Thrissur, Little Flower, Muvattupuzha, and St. Augustine's Higher Secondary School, Muvattupuzha. She completed BSc from Kerala Agricultural University with university rank and PG and PhD from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi with IARI Gold Medal for PG.

#2272

Toni McNaron

#126169

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Toni McNaron, also known as Toni A. H. McNaron, is an American literary scholar. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Minnesota, and the author of several books, including Poisoned Ivy, about lesbophobic and homophobic workplace bullying in academia.

#2273

Kelly Stuart

#168569

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Kelly Stuart is an American playwright. Life She lived in Los Angeles. She has been a New Dramatists writer in residence at The Royal National Theatre’s Studio in London. She lives in New York, and teaches in the Theatre Department at Columbia University.

#2274

Amy Monticello

#186505

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Amy Monticello is an American essayist, lecturer, and non fiction writer. Monticello is the author of Close Quarters and How to Euthanize a Horse . Life and work Amy Monticello was born in Endicott, New York in 1982. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The Ohio State University in 2008. Her book Close Quarters, is classified as a chapbook. In constructing her non-fiction chapbook she took a collection of her shorter essays from a larger project she was working on and used the novella form as a guide. She is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

#2275

Lisa L. Moore

#98673

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Lisa L. Moore is a Canadian-American academic and poet. She earned a B.A. in English with honors at Queen's University in 1986, and then completed her doctorate at Cornell University in 1991. Principal themes in Moore’s work include the centrality of love between women to literary genres such as the novel, the landscape arts, and the sonnet; the transatlantic and multi-racial history of feminist art and thinking; and the importance of poetry to second-wave feminist, womanist, and lesbian cultures and politics.

#2276

Martine Bellen

#157257

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Martine Bellen is an American poet, editor and librettist. Career She has taught at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York University, Rutgers University, and Hofstra University. She is currently teaching at Rachel Carson Intermediate School She was writer in residence at University of Central Oklahoma. She was a contributing editor of the literary journal Conjunctions, and Web del Sol.

#2277

Leela Corman

#177094

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Leela Corman is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Corman created the 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn, which follows the lives of Jewish twin sisters growing up in the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Unterzakhn was published by Schocken Books and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Eisner Award, and Le Prix Artemisia. Portions of Unterzakhn were serialized in HEEB magazine and Lilith magazine.

#2278

Simone White

#129010

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Simone White is an American poet, literary critic, and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she won a Whiting Award for poetry. Much of her writing style is a hybrid between poetry and prose.

#2279

Chie Shinohara

#146499

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Chie Shinohara is a Japanese manga artist best known for Red River, known in Japan as Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori: Anatolia Story. She has twice received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo, in 1987 for Yami no Purple Eye and in 2001 for Red River.

#2280

Elizabeth Ammons

#185542

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at Tufts University. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. Early life and education Ammons attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

#2281

Emily Erbelding

Emily Erbelding

#106597

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Emily J. Erbelding is an American physician-scientist. She is the director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . Erbelding was previously deputy director of the Division of AIDS at NIAID. She was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as director of clinical services for the Baltimore City Health Department STD/HIV program.

#2282

Ibtisam al-Samadi

#130222

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Ibtisam Ismai'l al-Samadi is a Syrian poet and academic. She was born in Jasim in Daraa and studied elementary and middle school in Beirut and then moved to Syria to complete her studies. She graduated from Damascus University in English and returned to Beirut to complete her postgraduate studies. Started writing at a young age. She is one of the academies of Damascus University in the Department of Arts and English.Involved into politics and became a member of the Syrian People's Assembly. Her poetry books are printed and she is the owner of Tuesday Cultural Salon.

#2283

Carole Satyamurti

#128283

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Carole Satyamurti was a British poet, sociologist, and translator. Personal life Satyamurti grew up in Kent, and lived in North America, Singapore and Uganda. She lived in London until her death on 13 August 2019, aged 80.

#2284

Sybil Kein

#138525

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Sybil Kein, also known as Consuela Provost , was a Louisiana Creole poet, playwright, scholar, and musician. She largely created the field of Creole Studies through her early publications and presentations.

#2285

Laurie Sheck

#169412

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Laurie Sheck is an American author and professor. In 1996, her book of poetry, The Willow Grove, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other collections of poetry include Captivity and Amaranth .

#2286

Azra Meadows

#100978

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Azra Meadows is a Scottish lecturer of Pakistani descent. is an Honorary Lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at The University of Glasgow and is married to Professor Peter S. Meadows, along with whom she has carried out extensive work of an environmental, cultural and educational nature in both Scotland and Pakistan. Azra Meadows was born in Glasgow to Pakistani parents.

#2287

Jan Richman

#187078

Overall Influence

Jan Richman is an American poet. Life She graduated from the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program. In 2001, Jan Richman and Beth Lisick presented a benefit "Poetry & Pizza," by 9x9 Industries. She worked at SF Gate, the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. She read at Edinburgh Castle, and Writers With Drinks Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, Comet, Other Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, Luna,

#2288

Ana Arzoumanian

#154489

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Ana Arzoumanian is an Argentine lawyer, writer, poet, and translator. Biography Ana Arzoumanian was born in Buenos Aires in 1962, a descendant of Armenian immigrants and the granddaughter of survivors of the Armenian genocide. She currently resides in Buenos Aires.

#2289

Christina Davis

#183916

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Christina Davis is an American poet most notably recognized for two collections of poetry that deal with philosophically questioning common ideas and emotions: An Ethic, published in 2013, and Forth A Raven, published in 2006. In An Ethic, Davis addresses the grief and darkness of a father's death, the challenges of conventional constructs of life on earth and an afterlife somewhere else. This seems to be a theme building on ideas she explored in Forth A Raven. She phases it simply as "There is no this or that world." As one reviewer wrote, "What follows is a rigorous meditation on this premis...

#2290

Dawn-Michelle Baude

#115181

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Dawn-Michelle Baude is an American poet, journalist and educator. Biography Born in southern Illinois, Baude moved to San Diego, California, in 1977 with her first husband Angelo Kolokithas . Baude received her undergraduate degree from San Diego State University. While pursuing her graduate degree at New College of California, she was influenced by Robert Duncan and other Bay Area writers active in the 1980s. She received her MA from New College in 1986. She earned an MFA from Mills College shortly thereafter.

#2291

Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon

#90147

Overall Influence

Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon is a published contributor to the field of Education. She is the Director of the Master of Science in Education Program at Northwestern University, where she is also a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy. She teaches with a focus in the philosophy of education, teacher education, interpretive discussion, and philosophy of psychology. Haroutunian-Gordon began teaching in the Glencoe area of Illinois - she taught sixth grade for five years. She left the faculty of the Department of Education at University of Chicago in 1991, and soon came to Northwestern University to direct the Master of Science in Education Program.

#2292

Marla Gibbs

#136492

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Marla Gibbs is an American actress, singer, comedian, writer and television producer whose career spans seven decades. Gibbs is known for her role as George Jefferson's maid, Florence Johnston, in the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons , for which she received five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

#2293

Jessica Treadway

#173871

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Jessica Treadway is an American short story writer. Life She was raised in Albany, New York. She graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, and from Boston University, with an MA. She worked as a reporter for United Press International. She held a fellowship at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and taught at Tufts University. She teaches at Emerson College.

#2294

Mena Webb

#97605

Overall Influence

1915 - 2012 (97 years)

Wilhelmena Katherine Fuller "Mena" Webb was an American writer and editor. She taught writing classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Evening College, was a columnist and society editor at The Herald-Sun, a novelist, and the author of a biography on the industrialist Julian Carr.

#2295

Olga Lepeshinskaya

Olga Lepeshinskaya

#46931

Overall Influence

1916 - 2008 (92 years)

Olga Vasilyevna Lepeshinskaya was a Soviet ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1951. Childhood Lepeshinskaya was born to an old Polish noble family in Kyiv, Russian Empire . Her grandfather, Vasily Pavlovich Lepeshinsky, was arrested as a member of the revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. Her father, Vasily Vasilyevich Lepeshinsky, was a railway engineer, one of the builders of the Chinese Eastern Railway.

#2296

Maren Linett

#178035

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Maren Tova Linett is a literary critic and Professor of English at Purdue University. Her research focuses on modernist literature and Jewish studies, disability studies, and bioethics, and her major works include Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness , Bodies of Modernism , and Literary Bioethics . She has also published work in academic journals such as the Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Disability Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.

#2297

Beth Holmgren

#177210

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Beth Holmgren is an American literary critic and a cultural historian in Polish and Russian studies. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. Recognised for her scholarship in Russian women's studies and Polish cultural history , she is working on a multicultural history of fin-de-siecle Warsaw. Before coming to Duke, she taught at the University of California-San Diego and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She earned her B.A at Grinnell College, and two master's degrees and and her doctoral doctorate at Harvard Univer...

#2298

Carol Bergé

#178361

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Carol Bergé was an American poet, highly active in the literary, performing and visual arts renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. In the 1980s a scandal in academia and her choice to fictionalize it cost her teaching jobs as well as support from the publishing industry. From there she championed antiquing as a profession, taking an extended sabbatical from writing until the last few years of her life, when she completed two books, both published posthumously.

#2299

Enid Dame

#124587

Overall Influence

1943 - 2003 (60 years)

Enid Dame was an American poet, fiction writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. For many years, she and her husband, poet Donald Lev, lived in Brooklyn and in High Falls, New York, where they edited and published the literary tabloid Home Planet News. She was on the faculty of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where she served as Associate Director of the Writing Program.

#2300

Diana Buitron-Oliver

#186874

Overall Influence

1946 - 2002 (56 years)

Diana Buitron-Oliver was an American classical archaeologist and curator, specializing in Greek vase painting. Life Buitron-Oliver began her university studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts under German-American art historian Dietrich von Bothmer at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She completed her doctoral thesis in 1976 on the vase paintings of the Greek painter Douris .

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