# List of experimental women writers

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## Contents

* A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z

## A

* Kathy Acker
* Renata Adler
* Anna Akhmatova
* Roberta Allen
* Hannah Arendt
* Rae Armantrout

## B

* Ingeborg Bachmann
* Djuna Barnes
* Dodie Bellamy
* Aase Berg
* Kate Bernheimer
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
* Elizabeth Bishop
* Jenny Boully
* Jane Bowles
* Giannina Braschi
* Lucie Brock-Broido
* Christine Brooke-Rose
* Octavia Butler

## C

* Mary Caponegro
* Leonora Carrington
* Anne Carson
* Angela Carter
* Suzanne Césaire
* Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
* Alexandra Chasin
* Maxine Chernoff
* Hélène Cixous
* Colette
* Wanda Coleman
* Lucy Corin
* Jayne Cortez
* Lynn Crawford

## D

* Susan Daitch
* Lydia Davis
* Debra Di Blasi
* Emily Dickinson
* Joan Didion
* H. D.
* Rikki Ducornet
* Rachel Blau DuPlessis
* Marguerite Duras
* Danielle Dutton

## E

* Deborah Eisenberg
* Carol Emshwiller
* Bernardine Evaristo

## F

* Thalia Field
* Eva Figes
* Kass Fleisher
* Janet Frame

## G

* Janice Galloway
* Anne F. Garréta
* Nikki Giovanni
* Louise Glück
* Jaimy Gordon
* Susan Griffin
* Barbara Guest

## H

* Jessica Hagedorn
* Donna Haraway
* Lyn Hejinian
* Noy Holland
* Jenny Holzer
* Fanny Howe
* Susan Howe
* Erica Hunt
* Zora Neale Hurston
* Kim Hyesoon

## I-J

* Shelley Jackson
* Elfriede Jelinek

## K

* Bhanu Kapil
* Anna Kavan
* Yayoi Kusama

## L

* Ann Lauterbach
* Violette Leduc
* Janice Lee
* Ursula K. Le Guin
* Louise Wareham Leonard
* Stacey Levine
* Robin Coste Lewis
* Clarice Lispector
* Layli Long Soldier
* Audre Lorde
* Mina Loy
* Valeria Luiselli

## M

* Eimear McBride
* Joyelle McSweeney
* Joyce Mansour
* Katherine Mansfield
* Micheline Aharonian Marcom
* Carole Maso
* Bernadette Mayer
* Cris Mazza
* Ursule Molinaro
* Marianne Moore
* Tracie Morris
* Toni Morrison
* Thylias Moss
* Granaz Moussavi
* Harryette Mullen
* Laura Mullen
* Herta Müller

## N-O

* Suniti Namjoshi
* Marie NDiaye
* Maggie Nelson
* Lorine Niedecker
* Anaïs Nin
* Dorthe Nors
* Alice Notley
* Alissa Nutting
* Silvina Ocampo

## P-Q

* Aimee Parkison
* M. NourbeSe Philip
* Alejandra Pizarnik
* Sylvia Plath
* Vanessa Place
* Gisele Prassinos
* Lia Purpura
* Ann Quin

## R

* Dawn Raffel
* Claudia Rankine
* Ariana Reines
* Adrienne Rich
* Dorothy Richardson
* Laura Riding
* Michèle Roberts
* Mercè Rodoreda
* Avital Ronell
* Fran Ross
* Joanna Russ
* Pamela Ryder

## S

* Sonia Sanchez
* Sappho
* Nathalie Sarraute
* Leslie Scalapino
* Lynda Schor
* Christine Schutt
* Ntozake Shange
Laurie Sheck
* Mary Shelley
* Sei Shōnagon
* Leslie Marmon Silko
* Ali Smith
* Patricia Smith (poet)
* Tracy K. Smith
* Anna Joy Springer
* Gertrude Stein
* Susan Steinberg (author)
* Laurie Stone
* Marlene Streeruwitz
* Terese Svoboda
* Cole Swensen

## T

* Melanie Rae Thon
* Marina Tsvetaeva

## U-W

* Dubravka Ugrešić
* Luisa Valenzuela
* Rosmarie Waldrop
* Anne Waldman
* Marjorie Welish
* Diane Williams (author)
* Christa Wolf
* Uljana Wolf
* Virginia Woolf
* C.D. Wright

## X-Z

* Can Xue
* Monica Youn
* Marguerite Young
* Lidia Yuknavitch
* Zitkala-Sa
* Unica Zürn