List of non-binary writers

This is a list of notable non-binary writers, or writers who are genderqueer, agender, bigender, genderfluid, non-binary gender or third gender.

A

• Travis Alabanza, an English performance artist, poet, writer, and LGBTQ rights activist[1][2]
• Kaitlyn Alexander, a Canadian actor, writer, web series creator and YouTube personality[3]

B

• Thomas Baty (1869–1954), an English lawyer, writer of a utopian science fiction novel, set in an egalitarian postgender society and editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania[4]
• Jay Bernard, a black British poet, multi media writer and film maker, shortlisted in the Costa Book Awards 2019[5]
• Mal Blum, an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer[6]
• Justin Vivian Bond, an American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, and actor[7]
• Lydia Brown, an Asian American autistic disability rights activist, writer, and public speaker
• Kate Bornstein, an American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist[8][9]
• Beth Brant, a Mohawk writer, essayist, and poet
• Rhea Butcher, an American stand-up comic, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host[10]
• Alec Butler, a Canadian playwright and filmmaker[11][12]
• Judith Butler, an American philosopher, gender theorist and feminist writer[13]

C

• Claude Cahun, a Jewish-French photographer, sculptor and writer[14]
• Marjorie Celona, an American-Canadian writer[15]
• Chrystos, a Menominee writer and two-spirit activist
• Ivan Coyote, a Canadian spoken word performer, writer, and LGBT advocate[16]

D

• Harry Dodge, an American sculptor, performer, video artist, and writer[17]
• Sady Doyle, an American feminist author[18][19][20]
• Grace Dunham, an American writer and activist[21]

E

• Akwaeke Emezi, a Nigerian author living in the United States[22]

F

• Waawaate Fobister, a Canadian playwright and actor[23]
• Tyler Ford, writer and public speaker[24]
• L. Frank, a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist[25]

G

• Sarah Gailey, an American author of speculative fiction[26]
• Andrea Gibson, an American poet and activist[27]
• Liv Hewson, an Australian actor and playwright[28]
• Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory and On Hell[29]

I

• Eddie Izzard, stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist [30]

K

• Yuhki Kamatani, a Japanese manga writer and illustrator [31]
• Janae Kroc, bodybuilder and writer[32]

L

• Carole LaFavor an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse[33]
• Richard LaFortune, a two spirit activist, author, community organizer, and artist[34]
• Rose Lemberg, a bigender, queer author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction[35]
• Elisha Lim, an artist and graphic novelist[36]
• Cheena Marie Lo, a poet working in Oakland, California[37]
• Sarah (Sleam) Leamy, a British agender author, cartoonist, and editor.[38]

M

• Gopi Shankar Madurai, Indian equal rights, Indigenous rights activist and author[39]
• Keith Maillard, a Canadian-American novelist and poet [40]
• Jul Maroh, a French comic book writer
• Jeffrey Marsh, an American writer, actor, artist, activist, author, and social media personality[41]
• Dan Taulapapa McMullin, an American Samoan artist, known for his poetry, visual art and film[42]
• Jack Monroe, a British food writer and journalist[43]
• Foz Meadows, an Australian fantasy novelist, blogger and poet.[44]

O

• Richard O'Brien, a British-New Zealand actor, television presenter, musician, writer, voice artist and theatre performer[45]

P

• Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex American activist, writer, artist, and consultant[46]
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist[47]

S

• Joey Soloway, an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer
• Rivers Solomon, an American author[48]
• Rae Spoon, a Canadian musician and writer[49]
• John Elizabeth Stintzi, Canadian novelist and poet[50]
• Rebecca Sugar, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter[51]
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, an American author and activist[52]

T

• Jacob Tobia, an American LGBTQ rights activist, feminist writer, and co-producer and host for the MSNBC television series Queer 2.0[53]
• Bogi Takács, Agender trans Jewish writer and poet[54]

V

• Joanne Vannicola, Canadian actor and memoirist[55]
• Hida Viloria, a Latinx American writer[56]

W

• Gigi Raven Wilbur, an American bisexual rights activist and writer[57]
• Joshua Whitehead, a Canadian First Nations poet and novelist[58]

Y

• Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Japananese novelist and essayist[59]
• JY Yang, Singaporean writer of English-language speculative fiction[60]
• Karekin Yarian, an author and social activist from San Francisco[61]

Z

• Nevo Zisin, a non-binary Australian writer and transgender rights activist[62]

See also

• List of people with non-binary gender identities
• Gender in science fiction

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