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Gwendolyn Brooks was an American poet from Chicago, the first Black writer to win a Pulitzer Prize, awarded in 1950 for Annie Allen.
Jorie Graham is an American poet born in New York in 1950, and won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field.
American novelist who won consecutive Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 2017 and 2020 for his historical novels *The Underground Railroad* and *The Nickel Boys*.
Jericho Brown is an American poet whose 2019 collection The Tradition won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and developed the duplex form.
American author celebrated for her novels depicting frontier life on the Great Plains, including the 1918 classic *My Ántonia*.
Natalie Diaz is a Mojave American poet and former basketball player who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem.
Charles Simic was a Serbian-born American poet known for surreal, concise poems, and served as U.S. poet laureate from 2007 to 2008.
Anne Sexton was an American confessional poet, known for candid poems on mental illness and family life and winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Live or Die.
American lyrical poet and playwright who became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for *The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver*.
