Virginia Moreno
VIRGINIA MORENO was a Filipina writer, poet, and playwright. Known as “The High Priestess” or the “The Empress Dowager of Philippine Poetry,” her work encompassed a range of literary genres,...
Virginie Ancelot
VIRGINIE ANCELOT was a French playwright, novelist, memorialist, and painter. From 1824-1875 she hosted one of Paris’ most influential literary salons which welcomed writers like Victor Hugo and...
Viva Tattersall
VIVA TATTERSALL was the stage name of Vera Tattersall, a British stage and film actress, sculptor, and playwright. She was born in London and moved to the United States to begin her career as a...
Wakako Yamauchi
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI (山内 若子) was a Japanese-American writer and playwright. She was born to first-generation Japanese immigrants (Issei) and farmers in Southern California’s Imperial Valley. The...
Wang Yun
WANG YUN was a scholar, playwright, and poet during the Qing Dynasty. She was born in the ancient capital of Chang’an, now known as Xi’an. Her plays were written in the traditional style of...
Xohana Torres
Xohana Torres was a playwright, poet, and radio broadcaster from Galicia, Spain. During the restrictive Francoist era, she worked full-time in broadcasting, where she created and directed Raíz e...
Xohana Torres Fernández
XOHANA TORRES FERNÁNDEZ was a poet, playwright, and an academic. As a child, she was greatly influenced by her grandmother, who taught her Galician, the language she would write in for most of her...
Yang Jiang
YANG JIANG (杨绛) was a Beijing-born playwright and author. She attended Soochow University, Tsinghua University, where she met her husband, fellow scholar QIAN ZHONGSHU, and then studied at Oxford...