List of non-binary writers
Non-binary writers are individuals that write for a living and hold a gender identity outside of the gender binary. Non-binary gender identities may include genderfluid, agender, and bigender. Additionally, some cultures may have "third gender" roles that exist outside of the gender binary.
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 X. Z. 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
- E.M. Carroll, a Canadian webcomic artist and author
- Claude Cahun, a Jewish-French photographer, sculptor and writer
- Marjorie Celona, an American-Canadian writer
- Chrystos, a Menominee writer and two-spirit activist.
- Heather Corinna, an American sex education writer and blogger.
- 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