List of women anthologists
This is a list of women anthologists with Wikipedia pages.
A
- Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023)[1][2]
- Irène Assiba d'Almeida (living)[3]
- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)[4]
- Claire Armitstead (living)[5]
- Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960)[6]
B
- Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)[7]
- Maria Banuș (1914–1999)
- Amina Baraka (born 1942)
- Mildred Barya (living)[8]
- Patricia Bell-Scott (living)[9]
- Carla Blank (living)
- Valerie Bloom (born 1956)
- Jenny Bornholdt (born 1960)[10]
- Carole Boyce Davies (living)
- Dionne Brand (born 1953)[11]
- Rodica Bretin (born 1958)
- Carellin Brooks (living)
- Jane Bryce (born 1951)[12]
- Jean Buffong (born 1943)
- Margaret Busby (born 1944)[13][14]
- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (born 1972)
C
- Eliza Lo Chin (born 1967)
- Rohini Chowdhury (born 1963)
- Jennie Thornley Clarke (1860–1924)
- Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948)[15]
- Anne Compton (born 1947)
- Maryse Condé (1934–2024)[16]
- Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (1847–1938)
- Jeni Couzyn (born 1942)
- Patricia Craig (b. 1940s)[17]
D
- Jean D'Costa (born 1937)[18]
- Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967)[19]
- Ellen Datlow (born 1949)
- Amber Dawn (living)
- Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966)
- Miriam DeCosta-Willis (1934–2021)
- Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
- Kay Dick (1915–2001)[20]
- Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012)
- Maura Dooley (born 1957)[21]
- Rita Dove (born 1952)[22]
- Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935)[23]
E
- Mari Evans (1923–2017)[24]
- Bernardine Evaristo (born 1959)[25]
F
- Connie Fife (1961–2017)
- Nikky Finney (born 1957)[26]
- Annie Foulkes (1877–1962)
- Constance Fowler (17th century)[27]
- Jaclyn Friedman (born 1971)
G
- Domitila García de Coronado (1847–1938)
- Helen Gardner (1908–1986)
- Kadija George (also known as Kadija Sesay; b. 1962)
- Roma Gill (1934–2001)
- Daisy Goodwin (born 1961)
- Germaine Greer (born 1939)[28]
H
- Gabrielle Harbowy (born 1972)
- A. Breeze Harper (living)
- Margret Helgadottir (born 1971)
- Camila Henríquez Ureña (1894–1973)
- Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960)
- Akasha Gloria Hull (born 1944)[9]
I
J
- Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living)[30]
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926/1927–2023)
- June Jordan (1936–2002)[31]
K
- Joan Kahn (1914–1994)
- Jean Kent (born 1951)
- Naseem Khan (1939–2017)[32]
L
- Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir (born 1941)[33]
- Kathleen Lines (1902–1988)
- Flora E. Lowry (1879–1933)
M
- Lindiwe Mabuza (1938–2021)[34]
- Margaret Mayo (born 1935)
- Anne Mazer (born 1953)
- Karen McCarthy Woolf (born 1966)
- Terry McMillan (born 1951)[35]
- Cherríe Moraga (born 1952)[4]
- Pamela Mordecai (born 1942)
- Robin Morgan (born 1941)
- Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
P
- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (born 1953)
- Polly Pattullo (living)
- Velma Pollard (1937–2025)[18]
- Rosey E. Pool (1905–1971)[36]
- Dorothy B. Porter (1905–1995)[37]
Q
- Christine Qunta (born 1952)[38]
R
- Catherine Reilly (1925–2005)[39]
- Soledad Reyes (born 1946)
- Maria Riddell (1772–1808)
- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1869–1948)
- Marsha Rowe (born 1944)
- Penelope Rowlands (living)
S
- Nina Salaman (1877–1925)
- Claudia Salazar Jiménez (born 1976)[40]
- Elaine Salo (1962–2016)
- Sonia Sanchez (born 1934)[41]
- Mandy Sayer (born 1963)
- Libby Scheier (1946–2000)
- Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (living)
- Zena Sharman (living)
- Dorothy Sheridan (born 1948)
- Josepha Sherman (1946–2012)
- Barbara Smith (born 1946)[9]
- Caro Soles (living)
- Dale Spender (1943–2023)[42]
- Irene Staunton (living)[43][44][45]
- Adelle Stripe (born 1976)
- Arundhathi Subramaniam (born 1973)
- Rosemary Sullivan (born 1947)
T
- Eileen Tabios (born 1960)
- Claudia Tate (1947–2002)
- Mary Wilder Tileston (1843–1934)
- Janet Todd (born 1942)[42]
- Orlando E. Toledo Morales (born 1964)
- Deborah Treisman (born 1970)
V
- Jessica Valenti (born 1978)
- Yvonne Vera (1964–2005)[46]
- Eugenia Viteri (1928–2023)
W
- Ellah Wakatama (born 1966)[47]
- Anne Walmsley (1931–2025)[48][49]
- Michelene Wandor (born 1940)
- Zukiswa Wanner (born 1976)
- Mary Helen Washington (born 1941)[50]
- Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
- Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929)
- Amabel Williams-Ellis (1894–1984)
- Liliane Wouters (1930–2016)[51]
X
- Makhosazana Xaba (born 1957)[52]
References
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- ↑ "Book Review: African Love Stories". Bookshy. February 2012. Archived from the original on 21 June 2023.
- ↑ D'Almeida, Irène Assiba (ed.), A Rain of Words: a bilingual anthology of women's poetry in Francophone Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009..
- 1 2 Moraga, Cherríe; Azandúa, Gloria (1981). This Bridge Called My Back. SUNY Press. ISBN 9781438454382.
- ↑ Armitstead, Claire (ed.), Tales of Two Londons: Stories From a Fractured City, O/R Books, 2018.
- ↑ Ashley, Mike, and William Contento, The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies. Greenwood Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0313240302, pp. 728–729.
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- ↑ Barya, Mildred (ed.), Boda Boda Anthem and Other Poems: A Kampala Poetry Anthology; a Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Anthology. Gilgal Media Arts, 2015. ISBN 9789970923427.
- 1 2 3 Bell-Scott, Patricia, Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith (eds), All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave, 1982.
- ↑ Bornholdt, Jenny, and Gregory O'Brien (eds), My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand (2000).
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- ↑ "Dr Patricia Craig". Cork Writers' School Ireland. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016.
- 1 2 D'Costa, Jean; Velma Poollard, eds. (1980). Over Our Way: A Collection of Caribbean Short Stories for Young Readers. Longman Caribbean. ISBN 0582765676.
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- ↑ "In Anthology, Rita Dove Connects American Poets' Intergenerational Conversations". PBS News. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
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- ↑ Finney, Nikky (2007). The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2926-0.
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- ↑ Greer, Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansone (eds). Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse. London: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
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- 1 2 Todd, Janet; Dale Spender (eds), Anthology of British Women Writers: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Pandora Press, 1989. ISBN 9780863582677.
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