Sarah Polley (born 1979), Canadian actress, screenwriter and political activist; Away from Her Katha Pollitt (born 1949), US feminist poet, essayist and critic Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969), Russian Jewish poet, translator and journalist Hannah Azieb Pool (born 1974), British-Eritrean writer and journalist Olúmìdé Pópóọlá (living), Nigerian-German poet and novelist Elizabeth Polwheele (1651–c. 1691), British playwright Elena Poniatowska (born 1932), Polish-Mexican journalist and fiction writer Marie Ponsot (born 1921), US poet and essayist Azalais de Porcairagues (late 12th century), French poet writing in Occitan Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), English poet and novelist Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920), US children's writer; Pollyanna Jane Porter (1776–1850), English historical novelist and playwright Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), US journalist, essayist and novelist; 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Suzanne Portnoy (born 1961), English writer and playwright Dina Posada (born 1946), Central American poet Francesca Bortolotto Possati (living), Italian entrepreneur and author Emily Post (1873–1960), US journalist and novelist; Etiquette Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), English children's writer and illustrator; The Tale of Peter Rabbit Sarah Powell (1922–1941), French poet Dawn Powell (1896–1965), US fiction writer and playwright Patricia Powell (born 1966), Jamaican novelist Marguerite Agnes Power (1815–1867), Irish-English novelist, periodical writer and editor Rhoda Power (1890–1957), English educational and children's writer Praxilla (5th century BC), Greek poet Paula von Preradović (1887–1951), Austrian story writer and poet Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-US woman to earn a political science Ph.D. Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969), Australian fiction writer and playwright Diane di Prima (born 1934), US poet Mary Prince (c. 1788–after 1833), Bermuda-born writer of first account of the life an enslaved black woman published in the UK, The History of Mary Prince (1831) Pauline Prior-Pitt (living), Scottish poet Amrita Pritam (1919–2005), first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist and essayist Faltonia Betitia Proba (c.