Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte is an Armenian-American writer, lecturer, philanthropist and human rights advocate. She wrote Nowhere, a Story of Exile (2012). She has lectured extensively about the plight of Armenians in Azerbaijan in the context of human rights and international law, as well as defending the political rights of Armenians to establish autonomy in Nagorno-Karabakh. She was instrumental in gaining passage by the legislature of the State of Maine of a 2013 resolution recognizing the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. In 2015, she was elected member of the Westbrook, Maine City Council. She was elected President of the Council in 2021 and reelected as President in 2022, becoming Westbrook’s first immigrant and first female president of the City Council.
Anna Balmer Myers was an American author of novels and poetry featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In addition to her writing career Myers spent more than 35 years teaching at a Philadelphia school for physically disabled students.
Anna Banks is an American author, best known for her New York Times best selling Syrena Legacy series. Mad Hatter Entertainment, producer on the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, has acquired movie rights to her Syrena Legacy series.
Anna Alexandrovna Barkova, July 16, 1901 – April 29, 1976, was a Soviet Russian poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and writer of fiction. She was imprisoned for more than 20 years in the Gulag.
Anna Bartlett Warner was an American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children. She is best known for writing the hymn "Jesus Loves Me".
Anna Bijns or Anna Byns was a Flemish poet who wrote in the Dutch language. She was an educator and the administrator of a primary school in Antwerp until the age of 80. Even while as a woman she was denied membership of a local chamber of rhetoric, she was able to publish her works and find widespread recognition for her literary talent among her contemporaries. She is the first author in Dutch-language literature who mainly owed her success to the recently invented printing press. Her works were reprinted multiple times during her lifetime. In the religious conflicts of her time she chose the side of the Catholic Church and expressed in her poems sharp criticism of the teachings of Martin Luther. She is also known for her verses criticising the institution of marriage.
