1979
Maya Angelou
Toni Cade Bambara
Ruth Stone
Alice Walker
Ruth Whitman

1980
Nina Baym
Jessica Hagerdorn
Angela Jackson
Audre Lorde
Tillie Olsen
Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Ullman
Sylvia Wilkerson

1981
Paule Marshal
Marge Piercy
Adrienne Rich
Mary Helen Washington
Ruth Whitman
Sherley Anne Williams

1982
Margaret Atwood
Sallie Bingham
Olga Bromas
Beverly Byars-Pevitts
Wendy Kesselman
Annette Kolodny
Cherie Moraga
Barbara Smith

1983
Jo Carson
Susan Griffin
Jane Joyce
Lee Howard
Kristen Hunter
George Ella Lyon
Nancy Milford
Ntozake Shange
Betsey Sholl
Women's Experimental Theatre

1984
Maggie Anderson
Christina Baldwin
Helen Chinoy
Mary Daly
Nikki Giovanni
Patricia Lamb
Mary Mebane
Louise Shivers
Split Britches Theatre Group
Nancy Willard

1985
Barbara Banks
Jodi Braxton
Rita Mae Brown
Jo Carson
McKeel McBride
Brenda Marie Osbey
Beverly Byars-Pevitts
Lucie Massie Phenix
Veronica Selver

1986
Mary Biggs
Sallie Bingham
Rita Dove
Mary Gordon
Judith Kagan Gardiner
Bobbie Ann Mason
Lee Smith
George Ella Lyon
Judith Serebnick
Theatre Workshop of Louisville

1987
Alexis De Veaux
Virginia Hamilton
Joy Harjo
Belinda Mason
More Fire!
Gloria Naylor
Sharon O'Brien
Gloria Steinem
Diane Wakoski

1988
Camile Bacon-Smith
Andrea Dworkin
Denise Giardina
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Rosa Guy
Marilyn Hacker
Sharon Olds
Sherley Anne Williams
Billie Jean Young

1989
Claribel Alegira
Michelle Cliff
Carolyn Forche
Barbara Kingsolver
Alicia Partnoy
Sonia Sanchez

1990
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jo Carson
Toi Derricotte
Melissa Pritchard
Anne Redmon
Spiderwoman Theatre

1991
Margo Culley
Nikky Finney
Ellen Gilchrist
Jane Goldberg
Marianne Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg
Paula Larke
Minnie Bruce Ptratt
Dorothy Spruil Redford

1992
Chrystos
J. California Cooper
Marianne Hirsch
Cynthia Kadohata
George Ella Lyon
Grace Paley
Jayne Anne Phillips

1993
Opal Palmer Adisa
Dorothy Allison
Gloria Anzaldua
bell hooks

1994
Paula Gunn Allen
Isabel Allende
Julia Alvarez
Renni Browne
Angela DeBord
Sarah Gorham
June Jordan

1995
Normandi Ellis
Nikky Finney
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Jane Vance

1996
Normandi Ellis
Jane Flax
Nancy Gruver
Collette Inez
George Ella Lyon
Rachel Ostovich
Molly Peacock
Ellen H.  Spitz
Helena Maria Viramontes

1997
Joan Brannon
Norma Cole
Merlene Davis
Nancy Elliot
Kim Edwards
Nancy Grayson Holmes
Sandy Huss
Mary Jefferson
Rhea Lehman
Sharyn McCrumb
Elizabeth Meese
Carmelita Tropicana
Wishing Chair

1999
Susan Bordo
Marie Brown
Marita Golden
Dorothy Randall Gray
bell hooks
Joanne Meschery
Gwendolyn Parker
Michelle Parkerson
Gywn Hyman Rubio
Aishah Shahidah Simmons

2000
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Margarita Donnelly
Patricia Johnson
Karen Sayler McElmurray
Sena Jeter Naslund
Gloria Valasquez

2001
Sallie Bingham
Maud Casey
Mary Daly
Linda Scott DeRosier
Janice Eidus
Kelly Ellis
Nancy Mairs
Pat Mora
Leslie Miller
Elizabeth Nunez
Crystal Wilkinson

2002
Julianna Baggott
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Sandra Maria Esteves
Roberta Gellis
Yunah Hong
Nalo Hopkinson
Sandra Maria Jackson-Opoku
Bobbie Ann Mason
Karen Salyer McElmurray
Eren McGinnis
Elaine Fowler Palencia
Lynn Pruett
Peggy Seeger
Susan O'Dell Underwood

2003
Martha Barnette
Susan Bordo
Haisa Diner
Kim Edwards
Nikky Finney
Vertamae Grosvenor
Marya Hornbacker
Letha Kendrick
Lorraine Lopez
Heather Lyons
Barbara Robinette Moss
Ruth Ozeki
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Elizabeth Rozin
Cynthia Rush
Susan Seligson
Ellen Ruppell Shell
Vandana Shiva
Elizabeth Surbin
Becky Thompson

2004
Sabrina Dhawan
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Arwen Donahue
Catherine Anne Fosl
Shirley Horn
Jane Juska
Harriet Logan
Sena Jeter Nashland
Shana Penn
Sonia Sanchez
Alix Strauss
Yoko Tawada
Jamie Walker
Rebecca Walker
Cecilia Woloch

2005
Elaine Brown
Candace Bushnell
Beth Ann Fennelly
Patty Friedman
Christine Fugate
Louise Gluck
Donna Hilbert
Ito Hiromi
Dana Levin
Tift Merritt
Vijai Nathan
Alexandra Robbins
Sonia Sanchez
Ann Telnaes
Neda Ulaby
Neela Vaswani
Carrie Mae Weems

2006
Alex Beauchamp
Diane Gilliam Fisher
Amy Kim Ganter
Phoebe Gloeckner
Hayden Herrera
Mabel Maney
Heather Raffo
Sonia Sanchez
Patricia Smith
Urban Bush Women
Jane Vanderburgh
Sarah Vowell
Lauren Weinstein
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

2007
Nickole Brown
Lee Byrd
Nathalie Handal
Sally Jenkins
Sedika Mojadidi
Jessica Care Moore
Naomi Shihab Nye
Helen Oyeyemi
Ann Pancake
Michelle Slatalla

2008
Malin Alegria
Laura Benedict
Debra Marquart
Joyce Carol Oates
Kim Osorio
Jennifer Sahn
Ginger Strand
Samantha Thornhill
Natasha Trethewey
Lisa Williams

2009
Elizabeth Alexander
Jenny Bent
Sallie Bingham
Nikky Finney
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Holly Goddard Jones
Gina McCauley
Rachel McKibbens
Christine Schutt
Susan Vreeland