Directory of female authors

Women Make SF
SF industry: Writers: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Screenwriters Comic writers Manga authors Artists: Artists Comic artists Cartoonists Animators Musicians Others: Directors Producers RPG designers & writers Editors Publishers Fans Con organizers Critics Scholars Award juries
Identities: writers of color other creators of color SF industry women of color SF studies women of color fandom women of color queer women writers SF industry queer women STEM professionals in SF women by male pseudonym
See also: Female characters Women Make SF Women of Color in SF Queer Women in SF Oppressions & intersections
About WMSF

The Directory of female authors is a proposed resource, along the (developing) models of the Encyclopedia of female characters, but focused on actual real women. See also Index to queer women in SF and Index to women of color in SF.

A central question is defining the scope. Options include (add others):

• Fiction writers only (screenwriters, novelists, etc.)
• Fiction creators only (also includes other creators like artists or cartoonists or directors)
• SF industry women (
• Any real woman (any female person with real existence, not solely character-development)*

Discuss these and other issues on the talk page.

* "real" woman just means nonfictional; not biowoman or any other construction of womanhood. Womanhood for these purposes is a broad and inclusive definition that includes in the directory any person who has publicly identified as a woman (or been historically identified as a woman) for a significant amount of her (or his) adult life.