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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

• Travis Alabanza, an English performance artist, poet, writer, and LGBTQ rights activist
• K Alexander, a Canadian actor, writer, web series creator and YouTube personality

B

• Thomas Baty (1869–1954), an English lawyer and writer of a utopian science fiction novel set in a postgender society, as well as the editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania
• Jay Bernard, a black British poet, multi media writer and film maker, shortlisted in the Costa Book Awards 2019
• Tess Berry-Hart, British playwright, author and activist
• Mal Blum, an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer
• Justin Vivian Bond, an American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, and actor
• Lydia Brown, an Asian American autistic disability rights activist, writer, and public speaker
• Kate Bornstein, an American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
• Beth Brant, a Mohawk writer, essayist, and poet
• Z Brewer, American young adult writer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.
• River Butcher, an American stand-up comic, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host
• Alec Butler, a Canadian playwright and filmmaker
• Judith Butler, an American philosopher, gender theorist and feminist writer
• K.R. Byggdin, Canadian novelist

C

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

D

• Harry Dodge, an American sculptor, performer, video artist, and writer
• Jude Ellison Sady Doyle, an American feminist author
• Cyrus Grace Dunham, an American writer and activist

E

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

F

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

G

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

I

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

K

• Yuhki Kamatani, a Japanese manga writer and illustrator
• Maia Kobabe, a cartoonist and illustrator, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir
• Janae Kroc, bodybuilder and writer

L

• Carole LaFavor an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse
• Richard LaFortune, a two spirit activist, author, community organizer, and artist
• Olivia Laing, a British trans/nonbinary writer, novelist, and cultural critic
• R. B. Lemberg, a bigender, queer author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction
• Elisha Lim, an artist and graphic novelist
• Cheena Marie Lo, a poet working in Oakland, California
• Katherine Locke, a writer of young adult and children's books living in Philadelphia, PA

M

• Gopi Shankar Madurai, Indian equal rights, Indigenous rights activist and author
• Keith Maillard, a Canadian-American novelist and poet
• Jul Maroh, a French comic book writer
• Jeffrey Marsh, an American writer, actor, artist, activist, author, and social media personality
• Dan Taulapapa McMullin, an American Samoan artist, known for their poetry, visual art and film
• Jack Monroe, a British food writer and journalist
• Foz Meadows, an Australian fantasy novelist, blogger and poet.
• Casey McQuiston, an American author of romance and new adult fiction.

O

• Richard O'Brien, a British-New Zealand actor, television presenter, musician, writer, voice artist and theatre performer
• AJ Odasso, American author, editor, and poet
• Alice Oseman, Genderfluid English YA author

P

• Page Martin, nonbinary French writer
• Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex American activist, writer, artist, and consultant
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist

R

• Lucas Rijneveld is a Dutch writer and poet.

S

• Joey Soloway, an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer
• Rivers Solomon, an American author
• Rae Spoon, a Canadian musician and writer
• ND Stevenson, an American cartoonist and animation producer
• John Elizabeth Stintzi, Canadian novelist and poet
• Rebecca Sugar, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, an American author and activist

T

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

V

• Joanne Vannicola, Canadian actor and memoirist
• Hida Viloria, a Latinx American writer

W

• Gigi Raven Wilbur, an American bisexual rights activist and writer
• Joshua Whitehead, a Canadian First Nations poet and novelist
• James Wylder, the founder of Arcbeatle Press and the creator of the 10,000 Dawns series.

Y

• Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Japanese novelist and essayist
• Neon Yang, Singaporean writer of English-language speculative fiction
• Karekin Yarian, an author and social activist from San Francisco

Z

• Xiran Jay Zhao, Chinese-Canadian author and Internet personality
• Nevo Zisin, a non-binary Australian writer and transgender rights activist

See also

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