Russ, Joanna (1937- )

US feminist writer of science fiction and other genres. Her work challenges gender roles and includes the novel The Female Man (1975), Extra(Ordinary) People (1984), Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts, a collection of essays (1985), and the short-story collections The Zanzibar Cat (1983) and The Adventures of Alyx (1976). Her non-fiction study How to Suppress Women's Writing was published in 1983.

She has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula (for the short story ‘When It Changed’) in 1972, and the Hugo (for the novella, Souls, which is an excerpt from Extra(Ordinary) People) in 1983.