 Katharine Kerr and Gwendolyn Brooks both sci-fi novelists?
Katharine Kerr: Katharine Kerr (born 1944) is an American science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry. Gwendolyn Brooks:  She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position held until her death, and what is now the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for the 1985–86 term.
no