Suzanne S. Rancourt

Indigenous Author, Poet & USMC Veteran

Hoda Khamosh

Women's Rights Activist, Journalist, & Campaigner; Raising Awareness to Female Health in Afghanistan

Judith Arcana

Writer, Poet & Reproductive Rights Advocate

Maya Washington

Filmmaker, Actress, Writer, Poet, Creative Director & Arts Educator

Joan 'Lyric' Leslie

Author, Slam poet, Back-to-back Queen of the South Poetry Slam Champion

Dawn Lundy Martin

Award Winning Poet, Critic, Essayist, Conceptual Video Artist & Performer

Janne Robinson

Author, Poet, Director, CEO & Founder of 'This is for the Women'

Aku Kadogo

Theater Director, Choreographer, Educator & Cultural Arts Preservationist

Ana Castillo

Chicana Author, Essayist & Poet

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Mestiza poet, Jungian psychoanalyst, Post-Trauma Recovery Specialist, Author & Spoken word artist.

Jackie Hill Perry

Self-Proclaimed Former Lesbian, Christian Poet, Writer, & Hip-hop Artist

Diamond Stingily

Artist Focused on Racial and Feminine Identities

Vicki Rox

Founder of LOVE COIN & Speaker on Modern Masculinity

Fatimah Asghar

Poet, Screenwriter, Educator, Performer. Co-Creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series

Eavan Boland

Irish Poet & Author; Professor at Stanford University

Deborah Levy

British Playwright, Novelist & Poet

Mahogany L. Browne

Spoken Word Poet, Author & Activist Whose Experiences With Racism, Sexism and Addiction Inspire Her Work

Carole Boston Weatherford

New York Times Best-Selling Author and Prize-Winning Poet

Marilyn Hacker

Distinguished Poet and Translator National Book Award Winner

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was born September 10, 1935 and is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Patricia Smith

Poet, Spoken-Word Performer, Playwright, Author

Nate Marshall

Author of Award Winning Literary Work, "Wild Hundreds"

Phil Kaye

Word Poet

Caroline Randall Williams

Award-Winning Poet & Co-Author of "Soul Food Love"

J. Michael Martinez

Walt Whitman Award-Winning Poet

Regan de Loggans

Activist, Art Historian, Curator, Educator & Founding Member of the Indigenous Womxn’s Collective: NYC

Fab 5 Freddy

Visual Artist, Filmmaker & Rapper

N. Scott Momaday

Kiowa Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist & Poet

House Made of Dawn

Chinaka Hodge

Full Time Artist at Chinaka Hodge, Inc; Poet, Filmmaker, Playwright

Noël Jones

Writer, Slam Poet, Former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana