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For years, the publishing industry treated women’s fiction as a side category. Romance was often dismissed as “commercial,” fantasy written by women rarely received literary respect, and serious publishing conversations were still heavily male-dominated. That world looks very different now. Women are no longer just participating in modern fiction and publishing. They are driving it.

Mary Shelley (via Poetry Foundation) Back in the day, people just figured there was no way a woman could come up with something as dark and strange as Frankenstein . In 1818, Mary Shelley basically burst onto the scene and gave the world a monster. When readers first opened the book, their jaws pretty much dropped, like, what’s going on with this wild mix of science and huge, tangled questions about what’s right and wrong? And then, plot twist: the author turns out to be a te