THE PERIODIC TABLE OF WOMEN IN SF MEME (stolen from that community).
Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you’ve read something (short stories count)
* Star those you don’t recognize
(accuracy not guaranteed, especially of what I own rather than have actually heard of)
Johanna Sinisalo
Andre Norton
C. L. Moore
* Evangeline Walton
Leigh Brackett
Judith Merril
Joanna Russ
* Margaret St. Clair
* Katherine MacLean
Carol Emshwiller
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Zenna Henderson
Madeline L’Engle
Angela Carter
Ursula LeGuin
Anne McCaffrey
Diana Wynne Jones
* Kit Reed
James Tiptree, Jr. (don't think I own an entire book, but certainly books with some of her stories)
Rachel Pollack
Jane Yolen
* Marta Randall
* Eleanor Arnason
Ellen Asher
Patricia A. McKillip
Suzy McKee Charnas
Lisa Tuttle
* Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Tanith Lee
Pamela Sargent
* Jayge Carr
Vonda McIntyre
Octavia E. Butler
Kate Wilhelm
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
* Sheila Finch
Mary Gentle
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (I haven't read the Tomoe Gozen books, but I want to, never been able to find copies)
C. J. Cherryh
Joan D. Vinge
Teresa Nielsen Hayden Of course, Teresa is an editor, and not a fiction writer. But I actually do have a book by her, her excellent book of fan writing Making Book.
Ellen Kushner
Ellen Datlow another editor. I definitely have books edited by her, though.
Nancy Kress
Pat Murphy
Lisa Goldstein
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
* Mary Turzillo
Connie Willis
Barbara Hambly
* Nancy Holder
Sheri S. Tepper
Melissa Scott
Margaret Atwood
Lois McMaster Bujold
* Jeanne Cavelos
Karen Joy Fowler
* Leigh Kennedy
* Judith Moffett
* Rebecca Ore
Emma Bull
Pat Cadigan
Kathyrn Cramer
Laura Mixon
Eileen Gunn
Elizabeth Hand
* Kij Johnson
Delia Sherman
Elizabeth Moon
* Michaela Roessner
Terri Windling
Sharon Lee
* Sherwood Smith
Katherine Kurtz
Margo Lanagan
* Laura Resnick
Kristine Kathryn Rusch just finished a novel yesterday. I would like to read more of the Retrieval Artist series.
* Sheila Williams
Farah Mendlesohn
Gwyneth Jones
* Ardath Mayhar
Esther Friesner
* Debra Doyle
Nicola Griffith
* Amy Thomson
* Martha Wells
* Catherine Asaro
Kate Elliott
Kathleen Ann Goonan
* Shawna McCarthy
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Maureen McHugh
Cheryl Morgan
* Nisi Shawl
Mary Doria Russell
Kage Baker
Kelly Link
Nancy Springer
J. K. Rowling
Nalo Hopkinson
Ellen Klages
* Tanarive Due
* M. Rickert
* Theodora Goss
Mary Anne Mohanraj
* S. L. Viehl
Jo Walton
* Kristine Smith
* Deborah Layne
Cherie Priest
* Wen Spencer
K. J. Bishop
Catherynne M. Valente
Elizabeth Bear
* Ekaterina Sedia
Naomi Novik
Mary Robinette Kowal
Ann VanderMeer