List of Women Writers - K

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• Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), Iranian poet, producer, critic, blogger and human rights advocate.
• Julie Kane (born 1952), American poet, scholar and editor; Louisiana Poet Laureate 2011–2013.
• Anna Louisa Karsch (1722–1791), German poet and letter writer.
• Lady Kasa (early 8th c.), Japanese poet.
• Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974), German novelist and poet.
• Kassia (810–pre-865), Byzantine poet and composer writing in Greek.
• Gina Kaus (1893–1985), Austrian novelist and screenwriter.
• Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877), Irish novelist.
• Annie Keary (1825–1879), English novelist and poet.
• Antigone Kefala (born 1935), Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage.
• Helen Keller (1880–1968), American lecturer, essayist, and autobiography writer. Light in my Darkness
• Gene Kemp (born 1926), English children's writer.
• Margery Kempe (c. 1373–1438), English autobiographer and mystic.
• Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), English novelist. The Constant Nymph
• Judith Kerr (born 1923), German-born English children's writer in English.
• Irmgard Keun (1905–1982), German novelist.
• Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937), Lebanese-French writer; former Miss Beirut.
• Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889), Russian novelist. The Boarding School Girl
• Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948), American writer. The Secret Life of Bees
• Emelihter Kihleng, first Micronesian poet to publish a collection in English.
• Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), English poet.
• Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836), English children's writer.
• Ronyoung Kim (1926–1987), Korean American writer.
• Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), Antiguan American novelist. Annie John
• Grace King (1852–1932), American short story writer and historian.
• Tabitha King (born 1949), American novelist.
• Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955), American novelist, poet, short story writer and essayist.
• Sarah Kirsch (born 1935), German poet and translator.
• Anne Knight (1792–1860), English children's writer.
• Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American novelist and academic.
• Karin Kiwus (born 1942), German poet.
• Carolyn Kizer (born 1925), American poet.
• Annette Kolb (1870–1967), German writer.
• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), Russian/Soviet writer and important political figure. A Great Love
• Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German poet.
• Anna Komnene (1083–1183), Byzantine chronicler and emperor's daughter writing in Greek. Alexiad
• Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck (1663–1740), Swedish noble, known as a dilettante artist (painter), amateur actor, and poet.
• Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), Polish novelist, poet, translator and essayist.
• Lina Kostenko (born 1930), Ukrainian poet.
• Elizabeth Kostova (born 1964), American novelist. The Historian
• Helene Kottannerin (fl. 1430s), Hungarian memoirist writing in German.
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891), Russian writer and major mathematician. Nihilist Girl
• Hanna Krall (born 1937) Polish writer, novelist, journalist.
• Julia Kristeva (born 1941), Bulgarian-French critic, philosopher and novelist.
• Uma Krishnaswami (born 1956), children's writer.
• Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir (born 1949), Icelandic novelist.
• Agota Kristof (born 1935), Hungarian novelist writing in French.
• Maxine Kumin (born 1925), American poet and children's novelist.
• Joanne Kyger (born 1934), American poet; tied to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation.
• Jean Kwok, Chinese American novelist.