Jeannine Atkins

A biographical verse novel following two girls born decades apart, Mary Agnes Chase in late-1800s Chicago and Marguerite Thomas Williams in early-1900s Washington, D.C., who push past family hardship and prejudice to become a Smithsonian botanist and the first African American to earn a PhD in geology.

Lise Meitner fights her way into physics at a time when women were barred from science, then must flee Nazi Germany as her work on nuclear fission changes the course of World War II.

Seven women who changed math and science, from Caroline Herschel to Katherine Johnson, are portrayed in poems about the obstacles they faced and the discoveries they made.

Three girls from different centuries, Maria Merian, Mary Anning and Maria Mitchell, follow their curiosity about caterpillars, fossils and stars to become pioneering scientists.

A memoir in verse. Six weeks into college, Atkins is sexually assaulted and returns home to Massachusetts, then works to reclaim her sense of self through her writing.

An imagined verse portrait of sculptor Edmonia Lewis, filling the gaps in her thinly documented life.

Three famous women of the early 1900s, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker and Marie Curie, are seen through their relationships with the daughters who worked beside them.