*Disclaimer*
This is, as the title says, an incomplete list. I have tried to put each author in every subgenre they write in. It is very probable there are glaring omissions and that I will facepalm when I notice them missing. It is also very probable that I have accidently put someone in the wrong place. PLEASE, let me know if you see any errors so I can fix them.
March is Women’s History Month and I decided to ask on Twitter to see who your favorite women SFF authors are. Then since so many people responded, I thought it would be a good idea to make a list so people could find them. Readers, that list is below.
I started transcribing it at the beginning of the month. It is now the end of the month. What I have learned is there are a bazillion amazing women writing in SFF, and I hope like me, you find some new favorites in this list.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the list! And all the women below for writing us fantastic stories! Happy Reading!
Fantasy
Rachel Aaron (Rachel Bach)
Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette)
C. S. Friedman (Celia S. Friedman)
Demi Harper (Laura M. Hughes)
Karen Miller (K. E. Mills)
Michelle Sagara (Michelle West)
Victoria Schwab (V. E. Schwab)
YA Fantasy
Delilah S. Dawson (Lila Bowen)
Victoria Schwab (V. E. Schwab)
Middle Grade & Children’s Fantasy
Victoria Schwab (V. E. Schwab)
Grimdark
C. S. Friedman (Celia S. Friedman)
Alternate History & Historical Fantasy
Fairy Tales & Fables
Urban Fantasy
Paranormal Romance
Magical Realism
Science Fiction
Rachel Aaron (Rachel Bach)
Delilah S. Dawson (Lila Bowen)
C. S. Friedman (Celia S. Friedman)
Ann Maxwell (A. E. Maxwell, Elizabeth Lowell)
Karen Miller (K. E. Mills)
James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon)
YA Science Fiction
Dystopian & Post-Apocolyptic
Steampunk
Horror
Sarah Monette (Katherine Addison)
Delilah S. Dawson (Lila Bowen)
T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)
Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire, A. Deborah Baker)
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I hope you found some new authors in our incomplete list. Let us know if we missed your favorite woman writing in SFF! Happy Reading!
Title image by Erika Varga.
Geoff Matthews
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
Juliet E McKenna, Patrice Sarath, Julia Knight, Jo Zebedee all deserve a mention
Elizabeth A Lynn deserves a mention in both fantasy and sf. Her fantasy series, The Chronicles of Tornor (Watchtower, The Dancers of Arun and The Northern Girl) is superb. Written in the late 1970s it was also one of the first depictions in fantasy of same sex relationships as a matter of fact part of life. Her sf, A Different Light, and The Sardonyx Net, both set in the same universe, but stand alone novels, have similar themes
Her later work includes a couple of related novels, Dragon’s Winter and Dragon’s Treasure.
It saddens me she isn’t as widely referenced as she should be….
Suzanne Collins should be added to a few categories
Seanan McGuire should be in UF along with Kalayna Price, Jeanne Stein, Christina Henry. Others for fantasy: M.K. Wren, Helen Lowe, Kim Falconer, A.K. Wilder, Alexandra Rowland, Karen Miller also writes as K.E. Mills, Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, J.R. Ward, Nalini Singh, C.J. Redwine, Veronica Roth, Marissa Meyer, Robin Lafevers, Micaiah Johnson, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Alix E. Harrow.
Oops, I forgot Nicky Drayden,, and I just read 2 of her books!
Shout out for Veronica Scott
Shout out for Adrian Selby.
Seanan McGuire – UF/YA
Libba Bray – YA
Jennifer McMahon – Horror
Elizabeth Massie – Horror
Linda Addison – Poetry/Horror
Heather Graham – Many
Alice Hoffman – Many
Joyce Carol Oates – Many