# List of Cuban women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Cuba or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

## A

* Alma Flor Ada (born 1938), Cuban-American writer, poet, Professor Emerita
* Brígida Agüero y Agüero (1837–1866), Cuban-born poet
* Mirta Aguirre (1912–1980), poet, novelist, journalist
* Ginny Aiken (born 1955), Cuban-American novelist writing in English
* Magaly Alabau (born 1945), Cuban-American poet, theatre director, actress, writes in Spanish
* Dora Alonso (1910–2001), novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, children's writer
* María Argelia Vizcaíno (born 1955), Cuban-American historian, journalist, non-fiction writer
* Cristina Ayala (1856–1936), Afro-Cuban poet

## B

* Ruth Behar (born 1956), Cuban-American anthropologist, poet, memoirist, non-fiction writer
* Marilyn Bobes (born 1955), poet, novelist
* Juana Borrero (1877–1896), painter, poet
* Dulce María Borrero (1883–1945), poet, feminist

## C

* Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist, poet, non-fiction writer
* Ana Cairo Ballester (1949–2019), writer, literature professor
* Julieta Campos (1932–2007), Cuban-Mexican novelist
* Yanitzia Canetti (born 1967), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
* Daína Chaviano (born 1957), Cuban science fiction and fantasy novelist and poet; columnist, editor, translator; now lives in the United States; writes in Spanish and English
* Aurelia Castillo de González (1842–1920), writer
* Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (1847–1938), considered to be the first women to practice journalism in Cuba

## D

* Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (1894–1976), journalist, newspaper director, feminist
* Teresa Dovalpage (born 1966), novelist, playwright, living in the United States

## F

* María Irene Fornés (1930–2018), Cuban-American playwright, author of Fefu and Her Friends

## G

* Cristina García (born 1958), Cuban-American journalist, novelist
* Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (born 1949), Cuban-American novelist, writes in English
* Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), letter writer, poet, novelist, playwright, political activist, lived mainly in Spain
* Wendy Guerra (born 1970), poet, novelist, columnist

## H

* Georgina Herrera (1936–2021), Afro-Cuban poet

## I

* Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (1943–2012), Cuban-American theologist, non-fiction writer

## J

* María Dámasa Jova Baró (1890–1940), Cuban poet and educator.

## L

* Carilda Oliver Labra (1922–2018), poet
* Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007), British-Cuban political activist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
* Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), poet

## M

* Beatriz Maggi (1924–2017), Shakespearean scholar
* Mayra Montero (born 1952), Cuban-Puerto Rican short story writer, novelist, non-fiction writer
* Nancy Morejón (born 1944), poet, critic, essayist
* Isabel Moya (1961–2018), journalist and feminist

## N

* Rafaela Chacón Nardi (1926–2001), poet and educator

## O

* Achy Obejas (born 1956), Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, journalist
* Mirta Ojito (born 1964), Cuban-American journalist, non-fiction writer

## P

* Hortensia Blanch Pita (1914–2004), Cuban-born non-fiction writer, moved to Mexico
* Juana Rosa Pita (born 1939), poet, translator
* Martina Pierra de Poo (1833–1900), poet

## R

* Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez Ramírez, Cuban blogger and activist living in Germany
* Mireya Robles (born 1934), Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, critic
* Mirta Rodríguez Calderón, journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
* Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta (1902–1975), novelist, essayist, playwright, feminist
* Emma Romeu, emigrated to Mexico in the early 1990s; since 1996 a non-fiction, children's, and environmental writer; writes in Spanish and English

## S

* Mariblanca Sabas Alomá (1901-1983), feminist, journalist, and poet
* Cecilia Samartin (born 1961), Cuban-American novelist, psychologist; best-selling novelist in Norway; now lives in California
* Cristina Saralegui (born 1948), journalist, magazine editor, television presenter
* Anna Lidia Vega Serova (born 1968), Russian-born Cuban poet, novelist, short story writer
* Ana María Simo (born 1943), Cuban-American playwright, novelist, essayist
* Karla Suárez (born 1969), novelist, short story writer, travel writer

## T

* Nivaria Tejera (1929–2016), poet, novelist

## U

* Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), poet

## V

* Zoé Valdés (born 1959), novelist, screenwriter, journalist, magazine editor
* María Villar Buceta (1899–1977), poet, journalist, and librarian

## W

* Sylvia Wynter (born 1928), Cuban-born Jamaican novelist, playwright, critic, essayist