Suzette Haden Elgin
Linguist and science fiction writer and artist. Creator of the Coyote Jones series, the Ozark Trilogy, and the Native Tongue Trilogy, and various short stories. She has written several popular works on communication, focusing on how to avoid or defuse verbal conflict and attacks, .
Creator of the constructed language Láadan, a women's language; first discussed in the Native Tongue Trilogy.
Intertextual References
- "The Two of Them" by Joanna Russ, which took the characters and settings from Elgin's short story "For the Sake of Grace".