# List of women writers (A–L)

   * See also Lists of women writers by nationality.
This is a list of notable women writers.
Abbreviations: b. (born), c. (circa), ch. (children's), col. (columnist), es. (essayist), fl. (flourished), Hc. (Holocaust), mem. (memoirist), non-f. (non-fiction), nv. (novelist), pw. (playwright), wr. (writer), TV (television), YA (young adult)
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* List of women writers (M–Z)

## A
### Aa–Ag

* Karen Aabye (1904–1982, Denmark), nv. & travel wr.
* Uma Aaltonen (1940–2009, Finland), YA wr.
* Jane Aamund (1936–2019, Denmark), col. & nv.
* Jane Aaron (b. 1951, Wales), wr. & scholar
* Madiha Abdalla (fl 2010s), Sudanese newspaper editor
* Masoumeh Abad (b. 1962, Iran/Persia), mem. & academic
* Mercedes Abad (b. 1961, Spain), fiction wr.
* Ines Abassi (b. 1982, Tunisia/UAE), poet & travel wr.
* Florencia Abbate (b. 1976, Argentina), fiction wr., poet & es.
* Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958, United States), poet & fiction wr.
* Rachel Abbott (b. 1952, England), thriller wr.
* Shaila Abdullah (b. 1971, Pakistan/United States), fiction & ch. wr.
* Yassmin Abdel-Magied (b. 1991, Sudan/Australia), wr. & media person
* Hafsat Abdulwaheed (b. 1952, Nigeria), poet & fiction & non-f. wr.
* Rreze Abdullahu (b. 1990, Kosovo), wr. & war diarist
* Louise Abeita (1926–2014, United States), wr.
* Victorina A. Abellanosa (1903–1968, Philippines), Cebuano pw.
* Josette Abondio (b. 1949, Ivory Coast), nv. & ch. wr.
* Sara Aboobacker (1936–2023, India), Kannada wr.
* Marguerite Abouet (b. 1971, Ivory Coast), comics wr.
* Leila Aboulela (b. 1964, Sudan), wr.
* Leila Abouzeid (b. 1950, Morocco), social wr.
* Abiola Abrams (b. 1976, United States), wr. & filmmaker
* Liliana Abud (b. 1948, Mexico), TV screenwriter
* Umayya Abu-Hanna (b. 1961, Palestine/Finland), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Susan Abulhawa (b. 1970, Palestine/United States), nv.
* Lama Abu-Odeh (b. 1962, Palestine/United States), wr. on Islamic law
* Juliet Ace (b. 1938, Wales), pw. & scriptwriter
* Nora Aceval (b. 1953, Algeria/France), story teller
* Maria Dolores Acevedo (1932-1998, Spain), nv.
* Anna Maria Achenrainer (1909–1972, Austria/Austria-Hungary), wr.
* Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (1951–2014, Nigeria), poet & social wr.
* Kathy Acker (1947–1997, United States), nv., poet & pw.
* Maximiliane Ackers (1896–1982, Germany), fiction wr.
* Bertilda Samper Acosta (1856–1910, Comoros), poet & nun
* Ofelia Uribe de Acosta (1900–1988, Comoros), suffragist
* Soledad Acosta (1833–1913, Comoros), sociologist
* Eliza Acton (1799–1859, England), cookery wr. & poet; Modern Cookery for Private Families
* Joyce Ackroyd (1918–1991, Australia), wr. & academic
* Avis Acres (1910–1994, New Zealand), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Angelina Acuña (1905–2006, Guatemala), sonneteer
* Dora Acuña (1903–1987, Paraguay), poet & col.
* Rosario de Acuña (1850–1923, Spain), poet, pw. & es.
* Alma Flor Ada (b. 1938, Cuba), ch. wr., poet & nv.
* Barbara Adair (living, South Africa), nv. in English
* Varsha Adalja (b. 1940, India), nv. & pw.
* Juliette Adam (1836–1936, France), wr. & editor
* Pip Adam (living, New Zealand), fiction wr.
* Gabriela Adameșteanu (b. 1942, Romania), fiction wr. & es.
* Draginja Adamović (1925–2000, Serbia), poet
* Abigail Adams (1744–1818, United States), First Lady of the United States, letter wr. & diarist
* Glenda Adams (1939–2007, Australia), fiction wr.
* Lois Bryan Adams (1817–1870, United States), wr., journalist & ed.
* Mary Mathews Adams (1840–1902, Ireland/United States), wr.
* Patricia J. Adams (b. 1952, Anguilla), poet, wr. & broadcaster
* Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805–1848, England), poet & lyricist
* Patsy Adam-Smith (1924–2001, Australia), historian
* Catherine Adamson (1868–1925, Australia/New Zealand), homemaker & diarist
* Gil Adamson (b. 1961, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr. & poet
* Alison Adburgham (1912–1997, England), non-f. wr. & social historian
* Fleur Adcock (1934-2024, New Zealand/England), poet & editor
* Caroline Adderson (b. 1963, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Yda Addis (1857–1902, United States), wr. & translator
* Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847–1919, United States), wr.
* Kim Addonizio (b. 1954, United States), poet & nv.
* Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (b. 1988, Nigeria), nv.
* Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (b. 1963, Nigeria), wr. & policy advocate
* Sade Adeniran (b. 1960s, Nigeria), nv.
* Anne-Marie Adiaffi (1951–1994, Ivory Coast), nv.
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977, Nigeria), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (living, Nigeria), wr. & educator
* Opal Palmer Adisa (b. 1954, Jamaica), poet, nv. & educator
* Halide Edib Adıvar (1884–1964, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv. & rights activist
* Zoe Adjonyoh (b. late 1970s, England), wr. & cook
* Carine Adler (b. 1948, Brazil), screenwriter
* Emma Adler (1858–1935, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Renata Adler (b. 1938, United States), wr., col. & critic
* Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895, Sweden), feminist editor & wr.
* Etel Adnan (1925–2021, Lebanon/United States), poet, es. & artist
* Pilar Adón (born 1971, Spain), nv., ss. wr., poet, & translator
* Wilna Adriaanse (b. 1958, South Africa), nv. in Afrikaans
* Aesara of Lucania (4th or 3rd century BC, Ancient Greece), philosopher
* Ethel Afamado (b. 1940, Uruguay), poet & songwriter
* Gladys Afamado (1925–2024, Uruguay), poet & artist
* Anastasia Afanasieva (b. 1982, Ukraine), physician, poet, writer & translator
* Janet Afary (living, Iran/Persia/United States), historian & religious wr.
* Mahnaz Afkhami (b. 1941, Iran/Persia/United States), wr. & rights activist
* Ishrat Afreen (b. 1956, Pakistan), poet
* Vittoria Aganoor (1855–1910, Italy), poet
* Smita Agarwal (b. 1958, India), poet & academic
* Sheetal Agashe (b. 1977, India), poet
* Patience Agbabi (b. 1965, England), poet
* Berthe-Evelyne Agbo (living, Benin/France), poet
* Charlotte Agell (b. 1959, Sweden/United States), nv. & ch. wr.
* Adalet Ağaoğlu (1929–2020, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv., pw. & essayist
* Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903–1989, Azerbaijan/Turkey/Ottoman Empire), legal wr.
* Pinky Agnew (b. 1955, New Zealand), pw.
* Kelli Russell Agodon (b. 1969, United States), poet, wr. & editor
* Marjorie Agosín (b. 1955, Chile), rights activist
* Gerty Agoston (living, Hu/United States), pw. & nv.
* Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876, France), fiction wr. & historian
* Agripina Samper Agudelo (1833–1892, Comoros), poet
* Brígida Agüero (1837–1866, Cuba), poet
* Silvia Agüero (born 1985, Spain), feminist wr.
* Josefa Toledo de Aguerri (1866–1962, Nicaragua), social wr.
* Grace Aguilar (1816–1847, England), nv. & wr.
* Mila D. Aguilar (b. 1949, Philippines), poet & es.
* Anna Aguilar-Amat (b. 1962, Spain), poet & es. in Catalan
* Francisca Aguirre (1930–2019, Spain), poet
* Mirta Aguirre (1912–1980, Cuba), poet & nv.
* Milena Agus (b. 1959, Italy), nv.
* Ucu Agustin (b. 1976, Indonesia), wr. & filmmaker
* Delmira Agustini (1886–1914, Uruguay), poet

### Ah–An

* Freda Ahenakew (1932–2011, Canada/Newfoundland), wr. & academic
* Cecelia Ahern (b. 1981, Ireland), nv.
* Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800, Sweden), feminist wr., poet & editor
* Rukhsana Ahmad (b. 1948, Pakistan/England), wr. & translator
* Pegah Ahmadi (b. 1974, Iran/Persia), poet, scholar & critic
* Mimoza Ahmeti (b. 1963, Albania), poet & wr.
* Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup (b. 1963, Denmark), wr. & academic
* Astrid Ahnfelt (1876–1962, Sweden), fiction wr.
* Zeynep Ahunbay (b. 1946, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), conservation wr.
* Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016, Austria/Austria-Hungary), wr.
* Renate Aichinger (b. 1976, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw. & director
* Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023, Ghana/Gold Coast), wr. & pw.
* Naja Marie Aidt (b. 1963, Denmark), poet & wr.cat
* Victoria Aihar (b. 1978, Uruguay), nv.
* Ginny Aiken (b. 1955, Cuba/United States), fiction wr.
* Joan Aiken (1924–2004, England), nv.
* Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892, Greece), poet
* Sarona Aiono-Iosefa (b. 1962, New Zealand), ch. wr.
* Ashia (died 1009/1010, Spain), poet in Arabic
* Amanda Aizpuriete (b. 1956, Latvia), poet & translator
* Tobiloba Ajayi (living, Nigeria), wr. & campaigner
* Iris Akahoshi (1929–1987, United States), wr. for Amnesty International
* Miriam Akavia (1927–2015, Poland/Israel), mem. & Hc. survivor
* Akiko Akazome (赤染晶子, 1974–2017, Japan), fiction wr.
* Akazome Emon (赤染衛門, late 950s/early 960s – post-1041), poet & historian
* Miriam Akavia (1927–2015, Poland/Israel), wr. & translator
* Grace Akello (b. 1950, Uganda), poet, es. & folklorist
* Anna Åkerhjelm (1647–1693, Sweden), wr. & traveler
* Rachel Akerman (1522–1544, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet
* Sonja Åkesson (1926–1977, Sweden), poet, wr. & artist
* Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010, Soviet Union/Russia), poet
* Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966, Russia/Soviet Union), poet; Requiem
* Shaheen Akhtar (b. 1962, Bangladesh), fiction wr.
* Sakina Akhundzadeh (1865–1927, Azerbaijan), pw. & teacher
* Gülten Akın (1933–2015, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), poet
* Risu Akizuki (秋月りす, b. 1957, Japan), manga creator
* Layla al-Akhyaliyya (7th century, Ancient Arabia), poet
* Elena Akselrod (b. 1932, Soviet Union/Israel), poet
* Seza Kutlar Aksoy (b. 1945, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), ch. wr.
* Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995, Soviet Union/Russia), poet in Dolgan
* Magaly Alabau (b. 1945, Cuba/United States), poet & theater director
* Susanna Alakoski (b. 1962, Finland), nv. & lecturer in Swedish
* Zuleika Alambert (1922–2012, Brazil), feminist wr.
* Mathilde Alanic (1864–1948, France), nv. & ss.
* Outi Alanne (b. 1967, Finland), autobiographer
* Abimbola Alao (living, Nigeria), poet, fiction wr. & storyteller
* Alev Alatlı (b. 1944, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), economist & nv.
* Ave Alavainu (1942–2022, Estonia), poet
* Suzanne Alaywan (b. 1974, Lebanon), poet & painter
* Caterina Albert (1869–1966, Spain), modernist wr.
* Eva Allen Alberti (1856–1938, United States) non-f. wr. & drama.
* Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012, France), poet
* Alice Albinia (b. 1976, England), non-f. wr.
* Jordie Albiston (1961–2022, Australia), poet & academic
* Daniela Albizu (1936-2015, Spain), academic, wr,, & councillor
* Núria Albó (b. 1930, Spain), poet & nv.
* Aurora de Albornoz (1926–1990, Spain), poet
* Martha Albrand (1914–1981, Germany/United States), nv.
* Vera Albreht (1895–1971, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Slovenia), poet & YA wr.
* Madeleine Albright (1937–2022, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/United States), political wr. & mem.
* Florența Albu (1934–2000, Romania), poet
* Erlinda K. Alburo (living, Philippines), Cebuano scholar
* Isabel Alçada (b. 1950, Portugal), ch. wr.
* Deborah Alcock (1835–1913, Ireland/England), nv.
* Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798, England), poet & philanthropist
* Sinforosa Alcordo, Cebuano fiction writer.
* Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888, United States), nv.; Little Women
* Josefina Aldecoa (1926–2011, Spain), fiction wr.
* Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841–1930, United States), ch. wr.
* Julia Carter Aldrich (1834–1924, United States), wr.
* Sarah Aldridge (1911–2006, Brazil/United States), feminist wr.
* Claribel Alegría (1924–2018, Nicaragua), poet, es. & nv.
* Lidiia Alekseeva (1909–1989, Latvia) poet & wr. of short stories
* Georgia Alexander (1868–1928, United States), textbook wr. & edu.
* Grace Alexander (1872–1951, United States), wr. & journalist
* Concepción Aleixandre (1862–1952, Spain), medical wr.
* Marilar Aleixandre (b. 1947, Spain), nv. & poet in Galician
* Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960, Italy), nv.
* Tatiana Aleshina (b. 1961, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & musician
* Brigitte Alexander (1911–1995, Germany/Mexico), pw. & screenwriter
* Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962, United States), poet, es. & pw.
* Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895, Ireland/England), hymnist & poet
* Eleanor Jane Alexander (1857–1939, Ireland), poet & nv.
* Meena Alexander (1951–2018, India), poet & scholar
* Eva Alexanderson (1911–1994, Sweden), wr. & translator
* Elena Alexieva (b. 1975, Bulgaria), fiction wr. & poet
* Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948, Ukraine/Belarus), non-f. wr. & col.; 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Elli Alexiou (c. 1894–1986, Greece/Hungary), fiction wr. & educator
* Munira Al-Fadhel (b. 1958, Bahrain), wr. & academic
* Mirra Alfassa (The Mother, 1878–1973, France), mystic & wr.
* Estrella Alfon (1917–1983, Philippines), fiction wr. in English
* Edna Alford (b. 1947, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr. & editor
* María Luisa Algarra (1916–1957, Spain/Mexico), pw.
* Asma al-Ghul (b. 1982, Palestine), political wr.
* Mrs Meer Hassan Ali (fl.1832) British born writer about Muslim life in India
* Monica Ali (b. 1967, Bangladesh/England), nv. & es.
* Samina Ali (living, India/United States), nv. & activist
* Florina Alías (1921–1999, Spain), wr.
* Maria Dolors Alibés (1941–2009, Spain), ch. wr.
* Margarita Aliger (1915–1992, Soviet Union), poet & es.
* Bisera Alikadić (b. 1939, Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Herzegovina), poet, nv. & ch. wr.
* Margaret Alington (1920–2012, New Zealand), local historian
* Jane Alison (b. 1961, Australia), nv. & memoir wr.
* Dilshad Aliyarli (b. 1962, Azerbaijan), wr.
* Dilara Aliyeva (1929–1991, Azerbaijan), philologist & activist
* Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1947–1996, Iran/Persia), poet & fiction wr.
* Laila al-Juhani (b. 1969, Serbia), fiction wr.
* Zaynab Alkali (b. 1950, Nigeria), fiction wr. & poet
* Al-Khansā (7th century, Ancient Arabia), poet
* Jani Allan (b. 1952, South Africa/United States), col.
* Hortense Allart (1801–1879, Italy/France), nv. & es.
* Candace Allen (b. 1950, United States/England), nv., activist & screenwriter
* Hannah Allen (b. 1638, England), wr.
* Liz Allen (b. 1969, Ireland), wr. on crime & nv.
* Pamela Allen (b. 1934, New Zealand), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Lisa Allen-Agostini (b. 1960s, Trinidad), journalist, fiction wr. & poet
* Eliza Crosby Allen (1803-1848, United States), rel. ed.
* Isabel Allende (b. 1942, Chile/United States), nv.; Eva Luna
* Lauren K. Alleyne (b. 1979, Trinidad/United States), poet & fiction & non-f. wr.
* Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1908–1996, West Indies), wr.
* Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011, Soviet Union), wr. & lecturer
* Margery Allingham (1904–1966, England), crime wr.
* Dorothy Allison (b. 1949, United States), wr. & speaker
* Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn (1847–1916, United States), wr., correspondent & poet
* Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862–1934, Brazil), nv.
* Lúcia Machado de Almeida (1910–2005, Brazil), fiction wr.
* Marcelina Almeida (ca. 1830–1880, Argentina/Uruguay), wr., nv., SS wr. & poet
* Rita Almeida (b. 1974, Portugal), economist
* Cora Almerino (living, Philippines), Cebuano poet
* Almucs de Castelnau (c. 1140 – pre-1184, France), poet
* Fatin al-Murr (b. 1969, Lebanon), fiction wr. & academic
* Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (1001–1080, Andalusia), poet in Arabic
* Dora Alonso (1910–2001, Cuba), fiction & ch. wr. & poet
* Marianne Alopaeus (1918–2014, Finland), nv. & es. in Swedish
* Concha Alós (1926–2011, Spain), nv.
* Faouzia Aloui (b. 1957, Tunisia), poet & fiction wr.
* Blanche d'Alpuget (b. 1944, Australia), biographer & nv.
* Hanan al-Shaykh (b. 1945, Lebanon/England), fiction wr.
* Fawziyya al-Sindi (b. 1957, Bahrain), poet & activist
* Tove Alsterdal (born 1960, Sweden), journalist, pw. & crime fiction wr.
* Al Altaev (1872–1959, Russia/Soviet Union), ch. wr.
* Fatima al-Taytun (b. 1962, Bahrain), poet
* Phyllis Altman (1919–1999, South Africa), political wr. in English
* Mor Altshuler (b. 1957, Israel), scholar & wr.
* Amparo Alvajar (1916–1998, Spain), wr. & pw.
* Mia Alvar (living, Philippines/United States), fiction wr. in English
* Griselda Álvarez (1913–2009, Mexico), poet & politician
* Ivy Alvarez (living, Philippines/Australia), poet in English
* Julia Álvarez (b. 1950, Dominica/United States), poet, nv. & es.
* María Álvarez de Guillén (1889–1980, El Salvador), nv.
* Betti Alver (1906–1989, Estonia), poet
* Miriam Alves (b. 1952, Brazil), wr. & poet
* Moniza Alvi (b. 1954, Pakistan/England), poet & wr.
* Barbro Alving (1909–1987, Sweden), col. & feminist
* Fanny Alving (1874–1955, Sweden), nv.
* Karin Alvtegen (b. 1965, Sweden), nv.
* Encarnacion Alzona (1895–1901, Philippines), historian & suffragist
* Ifi Amadiume (b. 1947, Nigeria), poet, anthropologist & es.
* Narcisa Amália (1856–1925, Brazil), poet & activist
* Akira Amano (天野明, b. 1973, Japan), manga creator
* Chihiro Amano (天野千尋, b. 1982, Japan), screenwriter
* Kozue Amano (天野こずえ, b. 1974, Japan), manga creator
* Ana Luísa Amaral (1956–2022, Portugal), poet, nv. & es.
* Maria Adelaide Amaral (b. 1942, Portugal/Brazil), pw. & screenwriter
* Suzana Amaral (1932–2020, Brazil), screenwriter
* Catherine d'Amboise (1475–1550, France), wr. & poet
* Gabriella Ambrosio (b. 1954, Italy), nv. & es.
* Claudia Amengual (b. 1969, Uruguay), nv. & es.
* Begoña Ameztoy (b. 1951, Spain), screenwriter & painter
* Elizabeth Frances Amherst (c. 1716–1779, England), poet & naturalist
* Adibah Amin (b. 1936, Malaysia), fiction wr. & radio pw.
* Lady Amin (1886–1983, Iran/Persia), theologian & mystic
* Mahshid Amirshahi (b. 1937, Iran/Persia), fiction wr. & critic
* Balamani Amma (1909–2004, India), poet
* K. Saraswathi Amma (1919–1975, India), fiction wr.
* Jo van Ammers-Küller (1884–1966, Netherlands), nv.
* Regina Amollo (b. c. 1954, Uganda), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Pita Amor (1918–2000, Mexico), poet
* Elisa S. Amore (b. 1984, Italy), nv.
* Jaleh Amouzgar (b. 1939, Iran/Persia), scholar on Iran
* Taos Amrouche (1913–1976, Tunisia/Algeria), wr. & singer
* Teresa Amy (1950–2017, Uruguay), poet
* Loula Anagnostaki (1928–2017, Greece), pw.
* Tahmima Anam (b. 1975, Bangladesh/England), fiction wr.
* Valerie Anand (b. 1937, England), fiction wr.
* Virginie Ancelot (1792–1875, France), wr., pw. & painter
* Tamara De Anda (b. 1983, Mexico), social wr.
* Andaiye (1942–2019, Guyana), non-f. wr. & activist
* Annemette Kure Andersen (b. 1962, Denmark), poet & editor
* Clara Andersen (1826–1995, Denmark), pw. & fiction wr.
* Emilie Andersen (1895–1970, Denmark), historian & archivist
* Ingrid Andersen (b. 1965, South Africa), poet in English
* Marguerite Andersen (1924–2022, Germany/Canada/Newfoundland), wr., editor & academic
* Barbara Anderson (1926–2013, New Zealand), fiction wr.
* Deborah Anderson (b. 1970), wr., musician & filmmaker
* Ethel Anderson (1883–1958, Australia), poet, nv. & painter
* Jessica Anderson (1916–2010, Australia), fiction wr.
* Laurie Halse Anderson (b. 1961, United States), ch. & YA wr.
* Lena Anderson (b. 1939, Sweden), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Rachel Anderson (b. 1943, England), ch. & YA wr.
* Verily Anderson (1915–2010, England), ch. wr., biographer & screenwriter
* Gail Anderson-Dargatz (b. 1963, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Pamela Andersson (b. 1965, Sweden), col.
* Emma Andijewska (b. 1931, Ukraine), poet & fiction wr.
* Agustina Andrade (1858–1891, Argentina), poet
* Alix André (1909–2000, France), nv.
* Neshani Andreas (1964–2011, Namibia), nv. & teacher
* Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937, Russia/Germany), psychoanalyst & es.
* Isabella Andreini (1562–1604, Italy), pw., poet & actor
* Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004, Paraguay), poet & wr.
* Blanca Andreu (b. 1959, Spain), poet
* Eliza Frances Andrews (1840–1931, United States), nv. & wr.
* Isobel Andrews (1905–1990, Scotland/New Zealand), pw., poet & nv.
* Marie Louise Andrews (1849–1891, United States), fiction wr. & col.
* Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998, Ukraine), Esperantist & autobiographer
* Hana Andronikova (1967–2011, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), nv. & pw.
* Sofia Andrukhovych (b. 1982, Ukraine), non-f. wr.
* Harriet Anena (living, Uganda), poet & col.
* Albalucía Ángel (b. 1939, Comoros), fiction wr. & es.
* Ángela María de la Concepción (1649–1690, Spain), mystical wr.
* Maya Angelou (1928–2014, United States), autobiographer & poet
* Jane Anger (late 16th century, England), wr.
* Lola Anglada (1893–1984, Spain), wr. & illustrator
* Maria Àngels Anglada (1930–1999, Spain), poet & nv.
* Christine Angot (b. 1959, France), nv. & pw.
* María Nsué Angüe (1945–2017, Equatorial Guinea), wr.
* Marion Angus (1865–1946, Scotland), poet in Braid Scots & English
* Loreta Anilionytė (living, Lithuania), philosopher & nv.
* Joan Anim-Addo (living, Grenada/England), academic, poet, pw. & publisher
* Domna Anisimova (c. 1810s – death date unknown, Russia), poet
* Yu Anjin (유안진, b. 1941, Korea), poet, es. & academic
* Nini Roll Anker (1873–1942, Norway), nv. & pw.
* Charlotte Anley (1796–1893, England), nv., wr. & musician
* Threes Anna (b. 1959, Netherlands), nv. & producer
* Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866, Russia), poet
* Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (c. 1862–1933, Russia), pw. & actor
* Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya (1840–1915, Russia), YA wr.
* Moyoco Anno (安野モヨコ, b. 1971, Japan), manga creator
* Núria Añó (b. 1973, Spain), wr. & nv. in Catalan
* Noushafarin Ansari (b. 1939, India/Iran/Persia), wr. on librarianship
* Olga Anstei (1912–1985, Soviet Union/United States), poet & Hc. survivor
* Manana Antadze (b. 1945, Germany), wr. & translator
* Ikram Antaki (1948–2000, Syria/Mexico), social wr.
* Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909–1987, India), wr. & reformer
* Süreyya Aylin Antmen (b. 1981, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), poet & es.
* Enriqueta Antolín (1941–2013, Spain), nv.
* Dorila Antommarchi (1850s–1923, Comoros), poet
* Elmira Antommarchi (19th century, Comoros), poet
* Hortensia Antommarchi (1850–1915, Colombia), poet
* Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004, United States), wr., poet & activist

### Ao–Az

* Temsüla Ao (1945–2022, India), poet, fiction wr. & ethnographer
* Colette Nic Aodha (b. 1967, Ireland), poet & wr.
* Yasuko Aoike (青池保子, b. 1948, Japan), manga creator
* Kotomi Aoki (青木琴美, b. 1980, Japan), manga creator
* Ume Aoki (蒼樹うめ, b. 1981, Japan), manga creator
* Leïla Aouchal (1936–2013, France/Algeria), autobiographer
* Nanae Aoyama (青山七恵, b. 1983, Japan), fiction wr.
* Lisa Appignanesi (b. 1946, Poland/England), nv. & activist
* Marta Aponte Alsina (b. 1945, Puerto Rico), nv. & academic
* Elena Apreleva (1846–1923, Russia/France), fiction wr.
* Iffat Ara (b. 1939, Bangladesh), fiction wr. & activist
* Kiyoko Arai (あらいきよこ, living, Japan), manga creator
* Motoko Arai (新井素子, b. 1960, Japan), science fiction & fantasy wr.
* Tullia d'Aragona (c. 1510–1556, Italy), poet, wr. & philosopher
* Diego Aramburo (b. 1971, Bolivia), pw. & director
* Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘, b. 1973, Japan), manga creator
* Marie Arana (living, Peru/United States), col. & critic
* Consuelo Araújo (1940–2001, Comoros), wr. & politician
* Helena Araújo (1934–2015, Comoros), wr. & academic
* Reina Torres de Araúz (1932–1982, Panama), ethnographer & academic
* Nezihe Araz (1920–2009, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), stage & TV pw.
* Maria Arbatova (b. 1957, Soviet Union/Russia), nv., pw. & poet
* Azalaïs d'Arbaud (1834–1917, France), wr. in Occitan
* Sophie d'Arbouville (1810–1850, France), fiction wr. & poet
* Liwayway Arceo (1924–1999, Philippines), fiction wr. & scriptwriter
* Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848, Iran/Persia), poet & historian
* Elvia Ardalani (b. 1963, Mexico), wr., poet & storyteller
* Henri Ardel (1863-1938, France), nv.
* Jane Arden (1927–1982, Wales), film director, pw. & nv.
* Clementina Arderiu (1889–1976, Spain), poet in Catalan
* Karen Ardiff (living, Ireland), playwright & nv.
* Araceli Ardón (b. 1958, Mexico), cultural wr.
* Wani Ardy (b. 1984, Malaysia), poet & songwriter
* Olga Arefieva (b. 1966, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & musician
* Concepción Arenal (1820–1893, Spain), poet, pw. & feminist
* Hannah Arendt (1906–1975, Germany/England), political theorist The Human Condition
* Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey (1819–1901, United States), wr. & editor
* Héloïse d'Argenteuil (c. 1101–1164, France), scholar & abbess in Latin
* Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918–2002, Nicaragua), poet
* Pilar Benejam Arguimbau (b. 1937, Spain), geographer & educator
* Xela Arias (1962–2003, Spain), poet in Galician
* Yemisi Aribisala (b. 1973, Nigeria), es., painter & mem.
* Meltem Arıkan (b. 1968, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv. & pw.
* Hiro Arikawa (有川浩, b. 1972, Japan), nv.
* Sawako Ariyoshi (有吉佐和子, 1931–1984, Japan), nv.
* Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983, Nigeria), fiction wr.
* Catherine Arley (1922–2016, France), nv.
* Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918, France), wr., biographer & historian
* Ayşe Arman (b. 1969, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), social wr.
* Rae Armantrout (b. 1947, United States), wr., language poet & academic
* Concepción Cabrera de Armida (1862–1937, Mexico), wr. & mystic
* Claire Armitstead (living, England), journalist & essayist
* Rebecca Agatha Armour (1845–1891, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Karen Armstrong (b. 1944, England), wr. on religion; A History of God
* Kelley Armstrong (b. 1968, Canada/Newfoundland), wr.
* Louise Armstrong (1937–2008, United States), wr. & feminist
* Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973, Australia), pw. & farmer
* Nína Björk Árnadóttir (1941–2000, Iceland), pw., poet & nv.
* Bergljót Arnalds (b. 1968, Iceland), ch. wr.
* Angélique Arnaud (1797–1884, France), nv. & feminist wr.
* Elena Arnedo (1941–2015, Spain), non-f. wr. & activist
* Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859, Germany), wr. & nv.
* Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941, Australia/England), nv. wr.
* Elizabeth Arnold (b. 1958, United States), poet
* Sarah Louise Arnold (1859–1943, United States), textbook wr.
* Joanne Arnott (b. 1960, Canada/Newfoundland), wr. in Métis
* Harriette Arnow (1908–1986, United States), nv.
* Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942, Poland), poet, pw. & translator
* Tuuve Aro (b. 1973, Finland), fiction wr. & film critic
* Geraldine Aron (b. 1951, Ireland), pw.
* Stina Aronson (1892–1956, Sweden), fiction wr.
* Jyoti Arora (b. 1977, India), fiction wr.
* Rosa Maria Arquimbau (1909–1992, Spain), nv. & pw. in Catalan
* Beatriz Santos Arrascaeta (b. 1947, Uruguay), essayist
* Marina Arrate (b. 1957, Chile), poet & psychologist
* Inés Arredondo (1928–1989, Mexico), fiction & ch. wr. & es.
* Celinda Arregui (1864–1941, Chile), feminist wr.
* Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (b. 1944, Paraguay), poet & nv.
* Mary Arrigan (b. 1943, Ireland), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Pat Arrowsmith (1930–2023, England), nv. & politician
* Suzanne Arruda (living, United States), mystery nv.
* Eustahija Arsić (1776–1843, Serbia), wr.
* Antonia Arslan (b. 1938, Italy), critic & nv.
* Tita Kovač Artemis (1930–2016, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), biographer & chemist
* Elizabeth Barr Arthur (1884–1971, United States), poet, non-f. wr., short story wr.
* Keri Arthur (b. 1967, Australia), nv.
* Portia Arthur (b. 1990, Ghana/Gold Coast), wr. & educator
* Inga Arvad (1913–1973, Denmark/United States), col.
* Ingrid Arvidsson (1919–2023, Sweden), poet & diplomat
* Akram Monfared Arya (b. 1946, Iran/Persia/Sweden), social wr.
* Mariko Asabuki (朝吹真理子, b. 1984, Japan), nv. & es.
* Yū Asagiri (朝霧夕, 1956–2018, Japan), manga creator
* Makate Asai (朝井まかて, b. 1959, Japan), nv.
* George Asakura (ジョージ朝倉, b. 1974, Japan), manga creator
* Amma Asante (b. 1969, England), filmmaker & screenwriter
* Devorà Ascarelli (fl. 16th century, Italy), poet
* Duygu Asena (1946–2006, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), non-f. wr.
* Julia de Asensi (1859–1921, Spain), fiction & ch. wr.
* Matilde Asensi (b. 1962), nv.
* Ranjana Ash (1924–2015, India/England), wr., critic & academic
* Helen Asher (1927–2001, Australia), nv.
* Daisy Ashford (1881–1972, England), child wr.; The Young Visiters
* Hinako Ashihara (芦原妃名子, b. 1974, Japan), manga creator
* Ashitha (1956–2019, India), fiction wr. & poet
* Melissa Ashley (b. 1973, Australia), nv.
* Anastasia Ashman (b. 1964, United States), wr. & producer
* Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994, England), nv.
* Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908–1984, New Zealand), nv., poet & educator
* Sara Ashurbeyli (1906–2001, Azerbaijan), historian & orientalist
* Anne Askew (1520/1521–1546, England), poet & martyr
* Sekar Ayu Asmara (living, Indonesia), screenwriter
* Nana Asma'u (1793–1864, Nigeria), poet & princess
* Izumi Aso (麻生いずみ, b. 1960, manga creator
* Isa Asp (1853–1872, Finland), poet
* Aspazija (1865–1943, Russia/Latvia), poet & pw.
* Asphyxia (living, Australia), ch. wr. & puppeteer
* Marie Aspioti (1909–2000, Gk), wr. & poet
* Ruth Aspöck (b. 1947, Austria/Austria-Hungary), fiction wr. & poet
* Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960, England), nv. & diarist
* Ros Asquith (living, England), cartoonist, ch. wr. & illustrator
* Margot Asquith (1864–1945, England), wr.
* Mina Assadi (b. 1943, Iran/Persia), poet, wr. & songwriter
* Ludmilla Assing (1821–1880, Germany/Italy), editor & biographer
* Leilah Assunção (b. 1943, Brazil), wr. & pw.
* Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1858/1859–1921, Iran/Persia), wr. & satirist
* Judith Astelarra (b. 1943, Argentina/Spain), sociologist
* Mary Astell (1666–1731, England), feminist wr. & rhetorician
* Thea Astley (1925–2004, Australia), fiction wr. & poet
* Tilly Aston (1873–1947, Australia), blind poet & prose wr.
* Elisa Hall de Asturias (1900–1982, Guatemala), nv. & biographer
* Cassandra Atherton (living, Australia), prose-poet & academic
* Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948, United States), wr.
* Mary Alderson Chandler Atherton (1849–1934, United States), non-f. wr.
* Diana Athill (1917–2019, England), editor, nv. & mem.
* Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1863–1942, United States), wr., col. & teacher
* Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872, Australia), nv., botanist & illustrator
* Kate Atkinson (b. 1951, England), nv.
* M. E. Atkinson (1899–1974, Mary Evelyn Atkinson, England), ch. nv.
* Sarah Atkinson (1823–1893, Ireland), biographer & es.
* Tiffany Atkinson (b. 1972, England/Wales), poet & academic
* Sefi Atta (b. 1964, Nigeria), wr. & pw.
* Ayesha Harruna Attah (b. 1983, Ghana/Gold Coast), fiction wr.
* Karen Attard (b. 1958, Australia), fantasy & fiction wr.
* Mririda n'Ait Attik (c. 1900 – c. 1940s, Morocco), poet in Shilha
* Adaeze Atuegwu (b. 1977, Nigeria), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (b. 1984, United States), nv.
* Margaret Atwood (b. 1939, Canada/Newfoundland), nv., poet & critic
* Madeleine de l'Aubépine (1546–1596, France), poet
* Penelope Aubin (c. 1679 – c. 1731, England), nv. & translator
* Gwenaëlle Aubry (b. 1971, France), nv. & philosopher
* Dorothy Auchterlonie (1915–1991, England/Australia), academic, critic & poet
* Aude (1947–2012, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Ashley Audrain (b. 1982, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Colette Audry (1906–1990, France), nv., screenwriter & critic
* Jean M. Auel (b. 1936, United States), nv.
* Anita Augspurg (1857–1943, Germany/Switzerland), wr. & activist
* Elisabeth Augustin (1903–2001, Germany/Netherlands), poet & fiction wr. in German & Dutch
* Lillian Aujo (living, Uganda), fiction wr. & poet
* Madame d'Aulnoy (c. 1650s – 1705, France), fairy-tale wr.
* Maria Aurora (1937–2010, Portugal), poet, nv. & ch. wr.
* Rose Ausländer (1901–1988, Bukovina), poet in German & English
* Jane Austen (1775–1817, England), nv.; Pride & Prejudice
* Mary Austin (1868–1934, United States), wr.
* Sarah Austin (1793–1867, England), translator
* Violeta Autumn (1930–2012, Peru/United States), architect & cookery wr.
* Frau Ava (c. 1060–1127, Germany), first female wr. in German
* Yekaterina Avdeyeva (1788–1865, Russia), domestic wr.
* Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873, Curaçao), nv., pw. & poet
* Yevprime Avedisian (1872–1950), Armenian poet, sort story writer & autobiographer
* Christine Aventin (b. 1971, Belgium), nv. & wr. in French
* Catharine Hitchcock Tilden Avery (1844–1911, United States), wr., editor & educator
* Victoria Aveyard (b. 1990, United States), YA fantasy wr.
* Tusiata Avia (b. 1966, New Zealand), poet & ch. wr.
* Boni Avibus (b. 2002, Indonesia), pw., poet & actor
* Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz (1909–1998, Lithuania/Israel), ch. wr. & educator
* Bunty Avieson (living, Australia), col. & nv.
* Magdalena Avietėnaitė (1892–1984, Lithuania/United States), col. & diplomat
* Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582, Spain), nun & mystic
* Margaret Avison (1918–2007, Canada/Newfoundland), poet, editor & speaker
* Smilja Avramov (1918–2018, Serbia), non-f. wr.
* Avvaiyar (fl. 1st-century), Tamil poet
* Avvaiyar (fl. 8th-century), Tamil poet
* Avvaiyar (fl. 12th-century), Tamil poet
* Mona Awad (b. 1978, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (b. 1949, New Zealand), academic
* Diane Awerbuck (b. 1974, South Africa), fiction wr. in English
* Marilou Awiakta (b. 1936, United States), Appalachian writer
* Suzanne Axell (b. 1955, Sweden), medical wr. & TV presenter
* Celine Axelos (1902–1992, Egypt), poet & speaker
* Majgull Axelsson (b. 1947, Sweden), col. & nv.
* Ángeles López de Ayala (1858–1926, Spain), pw & activist
* Cristina Ayala (1856–1936, Cuba), poet & col.
* Elysa Ayala (1879–1956, Ecuador), wr. & painter
* Aydilge (b. 1979, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction wr., poet & songwriter
* Margaret Ayer (died 1981, United States), wr. & illustrator
* Güzide Sabri Aygün (1886–1946, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv.
* May Ayim (1960–1996, Germany), poet
* Ángela Figuera Aymerich (1902–1984, Spain), poet
* Ayo Ayoola-Amale (living, Nigeria), poet & pw.
* Susanne Ayoub (b. 1956, Iran/Persia/Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv. & filmmaker
* Pam Ayres (b. 1947, England), poet, songwriter & presenter
* Djenar Maesa Ayu (b. 1973, Indonesia), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Samiha Ayverdi (1905–1993, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction wr. & mystic
* Félicie d'Ayzac (1801–1881, France), poet & art historian
* Shamim Azad (b. 1952, Bangladesh/England), poet & fiction wr.
* Azalais de Porcairagues (fl. late 12th century), poet in Occitan
* Shokoofeh Azar (b. 1972, Iran/Persia), nv. & journalist
* Che Husna Azhari (b. 1955, Malaysia), fiction wr.
* Hind Azouz (1926–2015, Tunisia), fiction wr. & es.
* Margarita Azurdia (1931–1998, Guatemala), poet & painter
* Samira Azzam (1927–1967, Palestine/Lebanon), fiction wr.
* Trezza Azzopardi (b. 1961, Wales), fiction wr. & broadcaster
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## B
### Ba–Bi

* Mariama Bâ (1929–1981, Senegal), nv.
* Sahar Baassiri (b. 1986, Lebanon), political wr. & col.
* Mozhgan Babamarandi (living, Iran/Persia), ch. & YA wr.
* Alaviyya Babayeva (1921–2014, Soviet Union/Azerbaijan), prose wr. & publicist
* Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016, United States), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Gabriela Babnik (b. 1979, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), nv. & critic
* Yvonne Baby (1931–2022, France), journalist, nv. & critic
* Elena Bacaloglu (1878–1947/1949, Romania/Italy), novelist & politician
* Ida Baccini (1850–1911, Italy), ch. wr.
* Ingrid Bachér (b. 1930, Germany), pw. & screenwriter
* Yamina Bachir (1954–2022, Algeria), screenwriter & film director
* Maria Baciu (b. 1942, Romania), poet, novelist & ch. wr.
* Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet, pw. & nv.
* Elizabeth Backhouse (1917–2013, Australia), nv., scriptwriter & pw.
* Delia Bacon (1811–1859, United States), pw. & fiction wr.
* Anita Rau Badami (b. 1961, India/Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Charlotte Baden (1740–1824, Denmark), wr. & correspondent
* Gabeba Baderoon (b. 1969, South Africa), poet in English
* Van Badham (b. 1974, Australia), pw. & nv.
* Yaba Badoe (b. 1954, Ghana/Gold Coast/England), nv. & filmmaker
* Liana Badr (b. 1950, Palestine), fiction wr.
* Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970, Germany/United States), Zionist & biographer
* Bae Suah (배수아, b. 1965, Korea), fiction wr. & poet
* Emma Baeri (b. 1942, Italy), historian & es.
* Jasodhara Bagchi (1937–2015, India), critic & activist
* Enid Bagnold (1889–1981, England), wr. & pw.
* Anna Bagriana (b. 1981, Ukraine), nv., poet & pw.
* Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991, Bulgaria), poet
* Annette Baier (1929–2012, New Zealand), philosopher
* Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941, Romania), encyclopedist & pw.
* Joanna Baillie (1762–1851, Scotland), poet & pw.
* Alice Bailey (1880–1949, England), mystic
* Amy Bailey (1895–1990, Jamaica), social col.
* Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863–1948, United States), ornithologist
* Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey (1812–1888, United States), wr., editor, publisher, poet, lyricist
* Sarah Lord Bailey (1856–1922, England/United States), non-f. wr., elocutionist, teacher
* Rosa Bailly (1890–1976, France), academic & activist
* Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010, England), nv.
* Doreen Baingana (b. 1966, Uganda), fiction wr.
* Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (b. 1970, Ghana/Gold Coast), YA wr.
* Fatima Surayya Bajia (1930–2016, India/Pakistan), pw. & nv.
* Lidia Bajkowska (b. 1966, Poland), educator & nv.
* Latifa Baka (b. 1964, Morocco), fiction wr.
* Deb Baker (b. 1953, United States), mystery wr.
* Dorothy Baker (1907–1968, United States), nv.
* Hinemoana Baker (b. 1968, New Zealand), poet & educator
* Louisa Alice Baker (1856–1926, England/New Zealand), nv. & ch. wr.
* Khnata bent Bakkar (d. 1754, Morocco), ruler & social analyst
* Margaret Bakkes (1931–2016, South Africa), fiction wr. in Afrikaans
* Albena Bakratcheva (b. 1961, Bulgaria), transcendentalist
* Asma El Bakry (1947–2015, Egypt), wr. & film director
* Layla Balabakki (1936–2023, Lebanon), nv. & activist
* Bettina Balàka (b. 1966, Austria/Austria-Hungary), fiction wr., poet & pw.
* Margaret Balderson (b. 1935, Australia), ch. wr.
* Maria Baldó i Massanet (1884–1964, Spain), pedagogue, ethnologist, folklorist, non-f. wr.
* Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir (b. 1949, Iceland), nv.
* Faith Baldwin (1893–1978, United States), fiction wr.
* Rowena Bali (b. 1977, Mexico), fiction wr. & poet
* Ona Baliukonė (1948–2007, Lithuania), poet & painter
* Rabia Balkhi (10th century, Iran/Persia), poet
* Zsófia Balla (b. 1949, Romania/Hungary), poet & es.
* Philippa Ballantine (b. 1971, New Zealand/United States), fiction wr.
* Solvej Balle (b. 1962, Denmark), nv. & radio pw.
* Inés Ballester (b. 1958, Spain), col. & cookery wr.
* Ada Ballin (1863–1906, England), wr. & col.
* Ingmāra Balode (b. 1981, Latvia), poet
* Mary Balogh (b. 1944, Wales), nv.
* Jelena Balšić (1365/1366–1443, Serbia), epistle wr.
* Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995, United States), wr., activist & academic
* Mary Ellen Bamford (1857–1946, United States), wr.
* Consort Ban (Ban Jieyu, Lady Pan, 班婕妤, c. 48 – c. 6 BC, China), scholar & poet
* Linda Vero Ban (b. 1976, Hungary), wr. on Jewishness
* Ban Zhao (班昭, 45–116 AD, China), first female Chinese historian
* Zsófia Bán (b. 1957, Brazil/Hungary), wr. & critic in Hungarian
* Carmen-Francesca Banciu (b. 1955, Romania), nv. & academic
* Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–2019, France), poet, es. & academic
* Ellen Banda-Aaku (b. 1965, Zambia), fiction & ch. wr.
* Teresa Bandettini (1763–1837, Italy), poet & ballerina
* Helen Elliott Bandini (1854–1912, United States), history wr.
* Faith Bandler (1918–2015, Australia), wr. & activist
* Mariko Bando (坂東眞理子, b. 1946, Japan), social wr. & critic
* Sushmita Banerjee (1963/1964–2013, India), wr. & activist
* Mary Jo Bang (b. 1946, United States), poet
* Rakhshān Banietemad (b. 1954, Iran/Persia), screenwriter
* Banine (1905–1992, Azerbaijan/France), current affairs wr.
* Zsuzsa Bánk (b. 1965, Germany), nv.
* Dot Banks (United Kingdom), non-f. wr.
* Leslie Esdaile Banks (1959–2011, United States), wr.
* Maya Banks (living, United States), romance wr.
* Anne Bannerman (1765–1829, Scotland), poet
* Helen Bannerman (1862–1946, Scotland), ch. wr.; Little Black Sambo
* Tristane Banon (b. 1979, France), nv. & es.
* Rashmi Bansal (living, India), non-f. wr.
* Anna Banti (1895–1985, Italy), fiction wr. & autobiographer
* Bao Junhui (鮑君徽, fl. late 8th century AD, China), poet
* Bao Linghui (鲍令晖, fl. mid-5th century AD, China), poet
* Anni Baobei (励婕, b. 1974, China), nv.
* Amina Baraka (b. 1942, United States), poet & activist
* Iqbal Baraka (b. 1942, Egypt), fiction & social wr.
* Hoda Barakat (b. 1952, Lebanon/France), nv.
* Ibtisam Barakat (b. 1962, Palestine), poet, mem. & ch. wr.
* Najwa Barakat (b. 1966, Lebanon), nv. & film director
* Barbara Baraldi (living, Italy), nv.
* Agnieszka Baranowska (1819–1890, Poland), pw. & poet
* Jadwiga Barańska (b. 1935, Poland), screenwriter & actor
* Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004, Soviet Union), wr.
* Maria Barbal (b. 1949, Spain), nv. & ch. wr.
* Giuseppa Barbapiccola (1702 – c. 1740, Italy), natural philosopher & poet
* Bárbara de Santo Domingo (1842–1872, Spain), mystic wr.
* Teresa Giménez Barbat (b. 1955, Spain), anthropologist
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825, England), poet, es. & ch. wr.
* Aja Barber, (United States), non-f. & nv.
* Margaret Barber (Michael Fairless, 1869–1901, England), nv. & ch. wr.
* Mary Barber (c. 1685 – c. 1765, Ireland), poet
* Ros Barber (b. 1964, England), nv. & poet
* Muriel Barbery (b. 1969, Morocco/France), nv. & academic
* Teresita de Barbieri (1937–2018, Uruguay/Mexico), non-f. wr., feminist sociologist
* Maria Tore Barbina (1940–2007, Italy), poet & translator
* Elia Barceló (b. 1957, Spain/Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv., ch. wr. & academic
* Alex Barclay (b. 1974, Ireland), crime wr.
* Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921, England), fiction wr.
* Leigh Bardugo (b. 1974, United States), young adult & fantasy wr.
* Leland Bardwell (1922–2016, Ireland), poet, nv. & pw.
* Joan Barfoot (b. 1946, Canada), nv.
* Serie Barford (living, New Zealand), poet & fiction wr.
* Simone Le Bargy (1877–1985, France), woman of letters
* Arvède Barine (1840–1908, France), wr. & historian
* Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911, Jamaica/England), col. & poet
* Nicola Barker (b. 1966, England), fiction wr.
* Pat Barker (b. 1943, England), nv.
* Susan Barker (b. 1978, England), nv.
* Anna Barkova (1901–1976, Soviet Union), poet, pw. & fiction wr.
* Jane Barlow (1856–1917, Ireland), nv. & poet
* Marjorie Barnard (with M. Barnard Eldershaw, 1897–1987, Australia), nv. & historian
* Mary Barnard (1909–2001, United States), poet & biographer
* Maria Barnas (b. 1973, Netherlands), nv., poet & artist
* Annie Maria Barnes (1857–?, United States), col., editor & wr.
* Djuna Barnes (1892–1982, United States), wr.
* Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967, United States), wr.
* Annie Wall Barnett (1859–1942, United States), wr. & poet
* Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972, United States/France), pw., poet & nv.
* María Dámasa Jova Baró (1890–1940, Cuba), wr. & feminist
* Carmen Baroja (1883–1950, Spain), wr. & poet
* Ana Baron (1950–2015, Argentina), wr. & col.
* Odile Baron Supervielle (1915–2016, Uruguay/Argentina), wr., journalist
* Evangeline Barongo (living, Uganda), ch. wr.
* Linda Maria Baros (b. 1981, Romania/France), poet & critic in French
* Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919, England), nv.
* Lisa Barr (living, United States), historical fiction wr. & journalist
* Miriam Barr (b. 1982, New Zealand), poet
* Emma de la Barra (1861–1947, Argentina), nv.
* Emma Barrandeguy (1914–2006, Argentina), poet, storyteller & pw.
* Sarah Maria Barraud (c. 1923–1995, England/New Zealand), homemaker & correspondent
* Maria Isabel Barreno (1939–2016, Portugal), wr.
* Beatriz Peniche Barrera (1893–1976, Mexico), poet & feminist
* Andrea Barrett (b. 1954, United States), fiction wr.
* Lynne Barrett (living, United States), fiction wr. & editor
* Rachel Barrett (1874–1953, Wales), editor & suffragette
* Margaret Barrington (1896–1982, Ireland), fiction & social wr.
* María Esperanza Barrios (1892–1932, Uruguay), political wr.
* Nuria Barrios (b. 1962, Spain), poet, fiction & non-f. wr.
* Pía Barros (b. 1956, Chile), fiction wr.
* Rachel Barrowman (b. 1963, New Zealand), historian & biographer
* Lalo Barrubia (b. 1967, Uruguay), poet & fiction wr.
* Angela Barry (living, Bermuda), wr. & educator
* Alicia Giménez Bartlett (b. 1951, Spain), nv.
* Agniya Barto (1906–1981, Russia/Soviet Union), poet & ch. wr.
* Charlotte Barton (1797–1867, Australia), ch. wr. & educator
* Emily Mary Barton (1817–1909, Australia), poet
* Violet Barungi (b. 1943, Uganda), wr. & editor
* Mildred Barya (living, Uganda), poet
* Anabela Basalo (b. 1972, Serbia), fiction wr.
* Ada Lee Bascom (d. 1928, United States), novelist & playwright
* Miryana Basheva (1947–2020, Bulgaria), poet
* Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884, Russia/France), diarist & artist
* Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936, United States), non-f. wr. & academic
* Talat Bassari (1923–2020, Iran/Persia), poet, feminist & academic
* Marnie Bassett (1890–1980, Australia), historian & biographer
* Laura Bassi (1711–1778, Italy), physicist & academic
* Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (b. 1967, Ivory Coast/Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Julia Bastin (1888–1968, Belgium), academic & nv. in French
* Marjolein Bastin (b. 1943, Netherlands), nature & ch. wr. & illustrator
* Bani Basu (b. 1939, India), es. & poet
* Purabi Basu (b. 1949, Bangladesh), fiction wr. & activist
* Fira Basuki (b. 1972, Indonesia), nv.
* Felisa Batacan (living, Philippines), nv.
* Jackee Budesta Batanda (living, Uganda), col. & wr.
* Allie Bates (b. 1957, United States), wr.
* Clara Nettie Bates (1876–1966, United States), ed. & wr.
* Daisy Bates (1859–1951, Australia), anthropologist
* Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929, United States), songwriter
* Margret Holmes Bates (1844–1927, United States), nv., poet, short story wr., non-f.
* Octavia Williams Bates (1846–1911, United States), suffragist, clubwoman & wr.
* Catherine Bateson (b. 1960, Australia), nv. & poet
* Janet Bathgate (c. 1806–1898, Scotland), autobiographer
* Najmieh Batmanglij (b. 1947, Iran/Persia/United States), chef & cookery wr.
* Eileen Battersby (c. 1958–2018, Ireland), critic
* Henrietta Battier (c. 1751–1813, Ireland), poet & satirist
* Laura Battiferri (1523–1589, Italy), poet
* Effie T. Battle (c. 1882 – post-1940, United States), poet & educator
* Dawn-Michelle Baude (b. 1959, United States), poet, col. & educator
* Emma Pow Bauder (1848–1932, United States), nv.
* Baudovinia (fl. c. 600, France), wr. in Latin
* Blanche Baughan (1870–1958, New Zealand), poet & penal reformer
* Marguerite Baulu (1870–1942, Belgium), nv. in French
* Vicki Baum (1888–1960, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv.
* Sara Baume (b. 1984, Ireland), nv.
* Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954, Germany), wr. & feminist
* Josephine Penfield Cushman Bateham (1829–1901, United States), social reformer, ed. & wr.
* Lualhati Bautista (1945–2023, Philippines), nv.
* Sophie Bawr (1773–1860, France), wr., pw. & composer
* Anna Dawbin (1816–1905, Australia), diarist
* Mary Temple Bayard (1853–1916, United States), wr. & journalist
* Oya Baydar (b. 1940, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction wr. & sociologist
* Ada Ellen Bayly (Edna Lyall, 1857–1903, England), nv.
* Barbara Baynton (1857–1929, Australia), fiction wr.
* Molly Baz (United States), chef & cookery wr.
* Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921, Spain), es. & nv.
* Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar (b. 1951, Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Herzegovina), wr., poet & pw.
* Lesley Beake (b. 1949, Scotland/South Africa), ch. wr.
* Anne Beale (1816–1900, Wales), nv. & poet
* Annie O'Meara de Vic Beamish (1883–1969, Ireland/Switzerland), wr. & pw.
* Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200–1268, Netherlands), Cistercian & early wr. in Dutch
* Cari Beauchamp (1949–2023, United States), non-f. writer & journalist
* Louisa Beaufort (1781–1863, Ireland), wr. & antiquarian
* Fanny de Beauharnais (1737–1813, France), lady of letters & salonnière
* Aletta Beaujon (1933–2001, Curaçao), poet
* Fleur Beale (b. 1945, New Zealand), YA wr.
* Margaret Beames (1935–2016, New Zealand), ch. wr.
* Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858–1923, United States), wr., compiler
* Mercedes Bengoechea (b. 1952, Spain), sociolinguist, non-f. wr.
* Betty Bentley Beaumont (1828–1892, England), wr.
* Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780, France), story & non-f. wr.
* Airini Beautrais (b. 1982, New Zealand), poet
* Emily Elizabeth Shaw Beavan (1818–1897, Ireland/Australia), poet & fiction wr.
* Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986, France), wr. & philosopher
* Dany Bébel-Gisler (1935–2003, Guadeloupe), nv.
* Bruna Beber (b. 1984, Brazil), poet & wr.
* Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova (1879–1952, Russia/France), nv. & actor
* Lola Beccaria (b. 1963, Spain), nv. & screenwriter
* Ángela Becerra (b. 1957, Comoros), poet & nv.
* Margaret Bechard (b. 1953, United States), ch. wr.
* Alison Bechdel (b. 1960, United States), cartoonist & mem.
* Mimí Bechelani (living, Mexico), TV screenwriter & poet
* Béatrix Beck (1914–2008, Switzerland/France), nv. in French
* Alice Becker-Ho (b. 1941, China/France), non-f. wr. & poet
* Mary Beckett (1926–2013, Northern Ireland), radio pw. & fiction wr.
* Thea Beckman (1923–2004, Netherlands), ch. wr.
* Claude de Bectoz (1490–1547, France), wr. & philosopher
* Malati Bedekar (1905–2001, India), fiction wr.
* Jean Bedford (b. 1946, Australia), fiction wr.
* Ruth Bedford (1882–1963, Australia), poet, pw. & ch. wr.
* Simi Bedford (living, Nigeria/England), nv.
* Sybille Bedford (1911–2006, Germany/England), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Yolanda Bedregal (1916–1999, Bolivia), poet & nv.
* Patricia Beer (1919–1999, England), poet & critic
* Isabella Beeton (1836–1865, England), domestic wr.; Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
* Anne Beffort (1880–1966, Luxembourg), critic & biographer
* Jana Begum (fl. 17th century, India), scholar
* Ruth Behar (b. 1956, Cuba/United States), anthropologist
* Simin Behbahani (1927–2014, Iran/Persia), poet & activist
* Aphra Behn (1640–1689, England), pw., poet & nv.
* Mariam Behnam (1921–2014, Iran/Persia/Emirates), nv. & autobiographer
* Larissa Behrendt (b. 1969, Australia), legal academic & nv.
* Maria Beig (1920–2018, Germany), nv. & educator
* Géraldine Beigbeder (living, France), nv. & screenwriter
* Sara Beirão (1880–1974, Portugal), ch. & YA wr. & activist

### Be–Bj

* Hélé Béji (b. 1948, Tunisia), nv. & es.
* Nazan Bekiroğlu (b. 1957, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv. & academic
* Hafsa Bekri (b. 1948, Morocco), poet & fiction wr.
* Maria Belakhova (1903–1969, Russia/Soviet Union), ch. wr. & educator
* Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso (1808–1871, Italy), political wr.
* Valerie Belgrave (1946–2016, Trinidad), wr. & artist
* Souhayr Belhassen (b. 1943, Tunisia), activist & biographer
* Concepción Silva Belinzon (1903–1987, Uruguay), wr.
* Diane Bell (b. 1943, Australia), anthropologist
* Hilary Bell (b. 1966, Australia), pw.
* Susan Groag Bell (1926–2015, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/United States), women's studies and autobiographer
* Vera Bell (1906 – post-1999, Jamaica/England), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Maud de Belleroche (1922–2017, France), nv.
* Diana Bellessi (b. 1946, Argentina), poet & es.
* Gioconda Belli (b. 1948, Nicaragua), revolutionary & wr.
* Samira Bellil (1972–2004, France), autobiographer
* Carolina Bello (b. 1983, Uruguay), fiction wr.
* Louise Swanton Belloc (1796–1881, France), translator
* Loleh Bellon (1925–1999, France), pw. & actor
* Yannick Bellon (1924–2019, France), screenwriter & film director
* Nassira Belloula (b. 1961, Algeria/Canada/Newfoundland), wr. in French
* Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska (1870–1946, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Yugoslavia), wr. & ethnographer
* Vizma Belševica (1931–2005, Latvia), poet & autobiographer
* Myriam Ben (1928–2001, Algeria/France), poet, fiction wr. & painter
* Margot Benary-Isbert (1889–1979, Germany/United States), ch. wr. in German & English
* Siham Benchekroun (living, Morocco), poet & fiction wr.
* Rajae Benchemsi (b. 1957, Morocco), poet
* Esther Bendahan (b. 1964, Morocco/Spain), wr. in Spanish
* Augusta Bender (1846–1924, Germany), writer, poet, activist
* Karen E. Bender (living, United States), nv.
* Rigmor Stampe Bendix (1850–1923, Denmark), biographer
* Emma Lee Benedict (1857–1937, United States), editor, educator & wr.
* Hester A. Benedict (1838–1921, United States), poet & wr.
* Victoria Benedictsson (1850–1888, Sweden), nv.
* Maria Beneyto (1925–2011, Spain), poet
* Božena Benešová (1873–1936, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Sokhna Benga (b. 1967, Senegal), nv. & poet
* Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827, England), nv. & biographer
* Seyla Benhabib (b. 1950, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/United States), political philosopher
* Nouria Benghabrit-Remaoun (b. 1952, Algeria), sociologist & politician
* Elisa Beni (b. 1965, Spain), social wr., col. & nv.
* Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker (1888–1942, Algeria), poet & pw.
* Milena Benini (1966–2020, Yugoslavia/Croatia), science fiction nv.
* Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1750–1808, Wales), nv.
* Louie Bennett (1870–1956, Ireland), wr. & suffragette
* Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919–2006, Jamaica), poet & educator
* Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881–1961, Australia), biographer & rights advocate
* Veronica Bennett (b. 1953, England), ch. nv.
* Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981, United States), wr.
* Louise Bennett (1919–2006, Jamaica), poet & folklorist
* Khnata Bennouna (b. 1940, Morocco), fiction wr.
* Nel Benschop (1918–2005, Netherlands), poet
* Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (1840–1921, United States), wr., newspaper pub. & ed.
* Sihem Bensedrine (b. 1950, Tunisia),
* Carol Bensimon (b. 1982, Brazil), fiction wr.
* Nettie Lee Benson (1905–1993, United States), archivist & historian
* Sally Benson (1897–1972, United States), screenwriter & fiction wr.
* Caroline French Benton (died 1923, United States), cookery wr.
* Juliette Benzoni (1920–2016, France), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Nina Berberova (1901–1993, Russia/France), fiction wr.
* Lydia Berdyaev (1871–1945, Russia/France), poet
* Amanda Berenguer (1921–2010, Uruguay), poet
* Josefa Berens-Totenohl (1891–1969, Germany), nv.
* Maimu Berg (b. 1945, Estonia), wr. & critic
* Sibylle Berg (b. 1968, Switzerland), fiction wr., es. & pw. in German
* Charlotta Berger (1784–1852, Sweden), fiction wr. & poet
* Olga Bergholz (1910–1975, Russia/Soviet Union), poet, pw. & ch. wr.
* Tara Bergin (b. 1974, Ireland), poet
* Anne-Marie Berglund (1952–2020, Sweden), poet, fiction wr. & artist
* Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975, Finland), wr. & pw.
* Elisabeth Bergstrand-Poulsen (1887–1955, Sweden), wr. & illustrator
* Gunilla Bergström (1942–2021, Sweden), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Aimée Daniell Beringer (1856–1936, United States), pw. & nv.
* Sara Berkeley (b. 1967, Ireland), poet
* Alexandra Berková (1949–2008, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), fiction wr. & educator
* Lucia Berlin (1936–2004, United States), short story wr.
* Giuliana Berlinguer (1933–2014, Italy), screenwriter & nv.
* Sabina Berman (b. 1955, Mexico), fiction wr. & col.
* Mònica Bernabé (b. 1972, Spain), col. & wr.
* Catherine Bernard (1662–1712, France), poet, pw. & nv.
* Gabrielle Bernard (1893–1963, Belgium), poet in French
* Patricia Bernard (b. 1942, Australia), fiction wr.
* Tati Bernardi (b. 1979, Brazil), fiction & screenwriter
* Paulette Bernège (1896–1973, France), household & non-f. wr.
* Juliana Berners (14th & 15th centuries, England), wr. on medieval pursuits
* Emmanuèle Bernheim (1955–2017, France), screenplay wr. & nv.
* Jovette Bernier (1900–1981, Canada/Newfoundland), col., nv., & poet
* Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw. & account of Theresienstadt concentration camp
* Rose Berryl (b. 1982, Belgium), fantasy wr. in French
* Bertice Berry (b. 1960, United States), sociologist, wr. & educator
* Julie Berry b. 1974, United States), ch. & YA wr.
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (白萱华, b. 1947, China/United States), poet & pw.
* Louise Bertin (1905–1977, France), poet & composer
* Michelle Suárez Bértora (b. 1983, Uruguay), social wr.
* Aurora Bertrana (1892–1974, Spain), fiction wr.
* Betty Berzon (1928–2006, United States), wr.
* Annie Besant (1847–1933, England), theosophist & activist
* Elsa Beskow (1874–1953, Sweden), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019, Portugal), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Bessora (b. 1968, Belgium), fiction wr. in French
* Eva Best (1851–1925, United States), ss. wr., poet, dramatist
* Mireille Best (1943–2005, France), fiction wr.
* Mary Matilda Betham (1776–1852, England), diarist, poet & woman of letters
* Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919, England), nv., poet & travel wr.
* Marion Bethel (b. 1953, Bahamas), poet & activist
* Nicolette Bethel (living, Bahamas), wr. & anthropologist
* Ursula Bethell (1874–1945, England/New Zealand), poet
* Kata Bethlen (1700–1759, Hungary), mem.
* Doris Betts (1932–2012, United States), fiction wr. & es.
* Jean Betts (living, England/New Zealand), pw. & actor
* Dricky Beukes (1918–1999, South Africa), fiction & radio drama wr. in Afrikaans
* Lauren Beukes (b. 1976, South Africa), fiction wr. & television screenwriter in English
* Maja Beutler (1936–2021, Switzerland), fiction wr. in German
* Cvetka Bevc (b. 1960, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet & prose & ch. wr.
* Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–30, England), pamphleteer
* L. S. Bevington (1845–1895, England), poet, anarchist & es.
* Maïssa Bey (b. 1950, Algeria), wr. & educator
* Niloofar Beyzaie (b. 1967, Iran/Persia), pw.
* Zdeňka Bezděková (1907–1999, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Sheila Bhatia (1916–2008, India), poet & pw.
* Sujata Bhatt (b. 1956, India), poet
* Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya (b. 1927, India), poet & critic
* Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950–2011, India), nv.
* Fatima Bhutto (b. 1982, Afghanistan/Pakistan), nv. & social wr.
* Ewa Białołęcka (b. 1967, Poland), fiction wr.
* Matilde Bianchi (1927–1991, Uruguay), critic
* Angela Bianchini (1921–2018, Italy), fiction wr. & critic
* Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945, England), wr.
* Marthe Bibesco (1886–1973, Romania/France), wr. in French
* Nina Bichuya (b. 1937, Ukraine), nv. & ch. wr.
* Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697, England), Quaker pamphleteer
* Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (1834–1916, England), non-f. w. & Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
* Ruth Bidgood (1922–2022, Wales), poet
* Agnieszka Biedrzycka (living, Poland), historian
* Dorothea Biehl (1731–1788, Denmark), pw.
* Nella Bielski (1930s–2020, Ukraine/France), wr. & actor
* Gisèle Bienne (b. 1946, France), nv.
* Linda Bierds (b. 1945, United States), poet & professor
* Carli Biessels (1936–2016, Netherlands), ch. wr.
* Alberta Bigagli (1928–2017, Italy), psychologist & poet
* Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917, United States), author
* Lettie S. Bigelow (1849–1906, United States), poet and author
* Barbara Biggs (b. 1956, Australia), wr. & campaigner
* Juana Bignozzi (1937–2015, Argentina), poet & translator
* Anna Bijns (1493–1575, Flanders), humanism in Dutch & French
* Elisheva Bikhovski (1888–1949, Russia/Israel), poet, critic & translator
* Üstün Bilgen-Reinart (b. 1947, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Canada/Newfoundland), non-f. wr.
* Shahbano Bilgrami (living, Pakistan/United States), poet & es.
* S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979, Switzerland), nv. & poet in French
* Raphaële Billetdoux (b. 1951, France), nv.
* Eva Billow (1902–1993, Sweden), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Natalka Bilotserkivets (b. 1954, Ukraine), poet
* Maeve Binchy (1939–2012, Ireland), fiction wr., pw. & col.
* Ama Biney (b. 1960s, England), historian & journalist
* Bing Xin (冰心, 1900–1999, China), fiction & ch. wr.
* Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179 Germany), mystic, pw. & poet in Latin
* Jennie M. Bingham (1859–1933, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Dörthe Binkert (b. 1949, Germany), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Judith Binney (1940–2011, New Zealand), historian & academic
* Carol Birch (b. 1951, England), nv.
* Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (c. 1800–1868, Germany), pw. & actor
* Christina Regina von Birchenbaum (fl. 17th century, Finland), poet
* Carmel Bird (b. 1940, Australia), fiction wr.
* Hera Lindsay Bird (b. 1987, New Zealand), poet
* Isabella Bird (1831–1904, England), traveller & wr.
* Poldy Bird (1941–2018), Argentina), poet & es.
* Sandra Birdsell (b. 1942, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Anne Birk (1942–2009, Germany), nv., history wr. & pw.
* Winifred Birkett (1887–1966, Australia), nv. & poet
* Becky Birtha (b. 1948, United States), poet & ch. wr.
* Dora Birtles (1903–1992, Australia), fiction wr., poet & travel wr.
* Anne Bishop (living, United States), fantasy nv.
* Eleanor Bishop (director) (New Zealand), playwright
* Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979, United States), poet & wr.
* Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916, United States), wr.
* Jacqueline Bishop (living, Jamaica), wr., artist & photographer
* Yael Bitrán (b. 1965, Chile/Mexico), non-f. wr.
* Zoubeida Bittari (b. 1939, Algeria) writer
* Adriana Bittel (b. 1946, Romania), critic & fiction wr.
* Isidora Bjelica (1967–2020, Serbia), wr. & pw.
* Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969, Australia), nv.
* Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir (b. 1982, Iceland), wr. & folklorist
* Christina Björk (b. 1938, Sweden), wr. & ch. book wr.
* Anna Svanhildur Björnsdóttir (b. 1948, Iceland), writer & educator
* Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir (b. 1958, Iceland), writer & actor
* Louise Bjørnsen (1824–1899, Denmark), fiction wr.

### Bl–Br

* Clementina Black (1853–1922, England), nv. & political wr.
* Emily Lucas Blackall (1832–1892, United States), wr. & philanthropist
* Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s–1660s, England), Quaker wr. & preacher
* E. Owens Blackburne (1848–1894, Ireland), wr. & nv.
* Malorie Blackman (b. 1962, Barbados/England), ch. & YA fiction wr. & pw.
* Anauta Blackmore (c. 1890–1965, Canada), memoirist, YA
* Ellen Blackwell (1864–1952, England/New Zealand), botanist
* Sara Blædel (b. 1964, Denmark), crime wr.
* Isa Blagden (1816/1817–1873, England/Italy), nv. & poet
* Marina Blagojević (1958–2020, Serbia), wr. on gender
* Georgia Blain (1964–2016, Australia), nv., col. & biographer
* Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860–1932, United States), wr.
* Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021, Canada/Newfoundland), nv., poet, & pw.
* Inés Joyes y Blake (1731–1808, Spain), Enlightenment wr.
* Jan Blake (fl 1988, UK), storyteller and wr.
* Anna Blaman (1905–1960, Netherlands), nv. & poet
* Susanna Blamire (1747–1794, England), poet
* Neltje Blanchan (1865–1918, United States), nature wr.
* Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte (1830–1897, France), poet
* Carmen Blanco (b. 1954, Spain), feminist wr.
* Yolanda Blanco (b. 1954, Nicaragua), poet
* Ana Blandiana (b. 1942, Romania), poet & es.
* I. M. E. Blandin (1838–1912, United States), non-f. wr.
* Stella Blandy (1836–1925, France), woman of letters & feminist
* Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank (1932–2002, New Zealand), poet & educator
* Carla Blank (living, United States), wr., editor & educator
* Clair Blank (1915–1965, United States), mystery wr.
* Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705, England), Quaker autobiographer
* Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891, Russia), theosophist & mystic
* Jaroslava Blažková (1933–2017, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia), fiction & ch. wr.
* Emily Rose Bleby (1849–1917, Jamaica/UK), nf. wr.
* Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783, United States), poet & correspondent
* Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849, Ireland), nv. & hostess
* Audrey Blignault (1916–2008, South Africa), es. in Afrikaans
* Ellen-Sylvia Blind (1925–2009, Sweden), poet & mem. in Sami
* Eliot Bliss (1903–1990, Jamaica/England), nv. & poet
* Karen Blixen (1885–1962, Denmark/Kenya), wr.
* Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962, United States), wr.
* Marion Bloem (b. 1952, Netherlands), wr. & film-maker
* Barbara Bloemink (b. 1953, United States), art historian
* Anni Blomqvist (1909–1990, Finland), nv. in Swedish
* Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911, Ireland), wr. & pw.
* Amy Bloom (b. 1953, United States), nv., non-f. wr. & psychotherapist
* Minerva Bloom (b. 1959, Mexico/United States), poet in Spanish & English
* Valerie Bloom (b. 1956, Jamaica), poet & nv.
* Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894, United States), wr. on women's rights & temperance
* Andrée Blouin (1921–1986, Central African Republic), activist & wr.
* Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/1763 – post-1816, England), nv.
* Antonina Bludova (1813–1891, Russia), salonnière & mem.
* Ana Cecilia Blum (b. 1972, Ecuador), wr.
* Liliana V. Blum (b. 1974, Mexico), fiction wr.
* Judy Blume (b. 1938, United States), nv.
* Yde Schloenbach Blumenschein (Colombina, 1882–1963, Brazil), poet & chronicler
* Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss (1899–1987, Germany/United States), poet & Hc. survivor
* Louise Sophie Blussé (1901–1996, Netherlands), religious wr.
* Enid Blyton (1897–1968, England), ch. wr.
* Capel Boake, (Doris Boake Kerr, 1889–1944, Australia), nv.
* Margarita Bobba (fl. 1560, Italy), wr. & poet
* Marilyn Bobes (b. 1955, Cuba), poet, nv. & critic
* Merlinda Bobis (b. 1959, Philippines/Australia), wr. & academic
* Irena Bobowska (1920–1942, Poland), poet & wartime victim
* Jacqueline Fatima Bocoum (living, Senegal), nv. & col.
* Cecil Bødker (1927–2020, Denmark), YA wr. & poet
* Imma von Bodmershof (1895–1982, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet
* Liliana Bodoc (1958–2018, Argentina), nv.
* Milica Bodrožić (living, Serbia), political history wr.
* Anna Böeseken (1905–1997, South Africa), historian in English
* Janka Boga (1886–1963, Hungary), wr. & pw.
* Louise Bogan (1897–1970, United States), poet
* Henrietta Boggs (1918–2020, United States/Costa Rica), author & activist
* Graciela Bográn (1896–2000, Honduras), es.
* Katalin Bogyay (b. 1956, Hungary), biographer & politician
* Helene Böhlau (1859–1940, Germany), nv.
* Margarete Böhme (1867–1939, Germany), nv.
* Laura Papo Bohoreta (1891–1942, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Yugoslavia), wr. on Judaism
* Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877, France), biog.
* Montserrat Boix (b. 1960, Spain), feminist wr.
* Barbara Bojarska (living, Poland), historian
* Berta Bojetu (1946–1997, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet & nv.
* Eavan Boland (1944–2020, Ireland/United States), poet & academic
* Sophie Bolander (1807–1869, Sweden), nv.
* Anna Bolavá (b. 1981), nv. & poet
* Emily Bold (b. 1980), adult & YA nv.
* Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463, Italy), religious wr. & saint
* Isabel Bolton (1883–1975, United States), nv.
* Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841–1916, United States), wr.
* Natella Boltyanskaya (b. 1965, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & songwriter
* María Luisa Bombal (1910–1980, Chile), wr.
* Erma Bombeck (1927–1996, United States), humorist
* Son Bo-mi (선보미, b. 1980, Korea), nv.
* Simona Bonafé (b. 1973, Italy), politician
* Marie Bonaparte-Wyse (1831–1902, France), wr. & hostess
* Annie B. Bond (b. 1953, United States), wr. & editor
* Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), United States), dance historian
* Cynthia Bond (b. 1961, United States), nv.
* Pilar Bonet (b. 1952, Spain), political wr.
* Maria Boniecka (1910–1978, Poland), educator & political wr.
* Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham (1840–1907, United States), traveler & col.
* Tanella Boni (b. 1954, Ivory Coast), poet & nv.
* Veronica Bonilla (b. 1972, Ecuador), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Laudomia Bonanni (1907–2002, Italy), fiction wr.
* Elizabeth Anne Bonner (1924–1981, United States), fiction wr. & poet
* Geraldine Bonner (1870–1930, United States), wr.
* Marita Bonner (1899–1971, United States), wr., es. & pw.
* Piedad Bonnett (b. 1951, Comoros), poet, pw. & nv.
* Teresina Bontempi (1883–1968, Switzerland/Italy), political wr. & diarist in Italian
* Cedella Booker (1926–2008, Jamaica), biographer & singer
* Malika Booker (b. 1970, England), poet, wr. & artist
* Paula Boock (b. 1964, New Zealand), fiction & screenwriter
* Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916, England), wr.
* Frances Boothby (fl. c. 1669–1670, England), pw.
* Alice Borchardt (1939–2007, United States), fiction wr.
* Itxaro Borda (born 1959, France), novelist, poet
* Ivonne Bordelois (b. 1934, Argentina), poet & es.
* Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi (1932/1933–2004, India), poet & folklorist
* Miriam Borgenicht (1915−1992, United States), mystery nv.
* Norah Borges (1901–1998), poet & illustrator
* Martina Barros Borgoño (1850–1944, Chile), feminist wr.
* Maria Selvaggia Borghini (1656–1731, Italy), poet
* Alicia Borinsky (fl. since 1975, Argentina), nv., poet & critic
* Elsa Bornemann (1952–2013, Argentina), ch. wr.
* Jenny Bornholdt (b. 1960, New Zealand), poet & anthologist
* Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka (1921–2012), Polish-born Israeli writer
* Marina Boroditskaya (b. 1954, Soviet Union/Russia), ch. poet
* Rosario Ustáriz Borra (1927–2009, Spain), poet in Aragonese
* Juana Borrero (1877–1896, Cuba), juvenile poet & painter
* Paloma Gómez Borrero (1934–2017, Spain), wr.
* Inés Bortagaray (b. 1975, Uruguay), screenwriter
* Marianne Boruch (b. 1950, United States), poet & professor
* Anica Bošković (1714–1804, Dalmatia/Ragusa/Serbia), wr. & poet
* Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1912–1986, Netherlands), nv.
* Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (1910–1998, Germany/Wales), archaeologist
* Louise de Bossigny (died 1700, France), salonnière & fairy-tale wr.
* Tania Boteva-Malo (b. 1950, Bulgaria/Belgium), nv. & wr. in French
* Nuria C. Botey (b. 1977, Spain), nv.
* Calypso Botez (1880–1933, Romania), feminist wr.
* Anne Lynch Botta (1815–1891, United States), poet, wr. & teacher
* Vera Botterbusch (b. 1942, Germany), wr. & poet
* Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963, England), fiction wr.
* Messaouda Boubaker (b. 1954, Tunisia), fiction wr.
* Tereza Boučková (b. 1957, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), fiction wr.
* Laurence Bougault (1970–2018), poet, travel wr.
* Martha Arnold Boughton (1857–1928, United States), wr., poet
* Iana Boukova (b. 1968, Bulgaria), poet, nv. & es.
* Mousse Boulanger (1926–2023, Switzerland), poet
* Carmen Boullosa (b. 1954, Mexico), poet, nv. & pw.
* Jenny Boult (1951–2005, Australia), poet
* Nina Bouraoui (b. 1967, Algeria/France), nv. & songwriter
* Catherine de Bourbon (1559–1604, France), sonneteer & princess
* Louise Bourbonnaud (c. 1847–1915), travel wr. in French
* Madeleine Bourdouxhe (1906–1996, Belgium), nv. in French
* Angela Bourke (b. 1952, Ireland), fiction wr. & historian
* Eva Bourke (b. 1946, Germany/Ireland), poet in English
* Marie Marguerite Bouvet (1865–1915, United States), ch. fiction wr.
* Jeanne Bouvier (1865–1964, France), political wr. & feminist
* Sarah Bouyain (b. 1968, France), wr. & film director
* Dounia Bouzar (b. 1964, France), anthropologist & educator
* Marie-Anne de Bovet (1855 – post-1935, France), nv. & travel wr.
* Louise Bovie (1810–1870, Belgium), fiction wr. in French
* Avice Maud Bowbyes (1901–1992, New Zealand), domestic wr.
* Jane Bowdler (1743–1784, England), poet & es.
* Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973, Ireland/England), fiction wr.
* Mary Bowes (1749–1800, England), pw. & botanist
* Sarah Bowie (living, Ireland), ch. wr. & illustrator)
* Jane Bowles (1917–1973, United States), wr. & pw.
* Mary D. R. Boyd (1809–?, United States), ch. wr.
* Karin Boye (1900–1941, Sweden), poet & nv.
* Clare Boylan (1948–2006, Ireland), fiction wr. & critic
* Helen Boyle (1899–1988, England/Ireland), activist & garden wr.
* Kay Boyle (1902–1992, United States), wr., educator & activist
* Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863–1938, United States), wr. & poet
* Ágota Bozai (b. 1965, Hungary), nv. & translator
* Zuzana Brabcová (1959–2015, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), nv.
* Coral Bracho (b. 1951, Mexico), poet & academic
* Leigh Brackett (1915–1978, United States), science fiction wr.
* Paula Brackston (living, England), nv.
* Brada (writer) (1847–1938, France), wr., nv.
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915, England), nv.
* Anna Braden (1858–1939, United States), wr. & poet
* Ann Weaver Bradley (1834–1913, United States), ss. wr., poet
* Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999, United States), fantasy & science fiction wr.
* Máire Bradshaw (b. 1943, Ireland), poet
* Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672, United States), poet & wr.
* Eva Brag (1829–1913, Sweden), social wr.
* Anne Bragance (b. 1945, France), wr.
* Sophia Brahe (1559 or 1556–1643, Denmark), horticulturalist & scientist
* Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (b. 1947, Philippines), nv. & editor
* Oyinkan Braithwaite (b. 1988, Nigeria/England), nv.
* Shannon Bramer (b. 1973, Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Mae Bramhall (c. 1861–1897, United States), actress, writer
* Dolors Bramon (b. 1943, Spain), philologist & academic
* Tatiana Niculescu Bran (living, Romania), nv.
* Dionne Brand (b. 1953, Trinidad/Canada/Newfoundland), poet, nv. & es.
* Hannah Brand (1754–1821, England), actor & pw.
* Mona Brand (1915–2007, Australia), poet, pw. & non-f. wr.
* Beatriz Francisca de Assis Brandão (1779–1868, Brazil), poet & educator
* Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (1928–2007, Portugal), poet, pw. & es.
* Angelika Brandt (b. 1961), oceanographer
* Johanna Brandt (1876–1964, South Africa), political wr. in Afrikaans
* Adelia Pope Branham (1861–1917, United States), poet, short story wr.
* Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970, Brazil), diarist
* Giannina Braschi (b. 1953, Paraguay), wr.
* Ann Brashares (b. 1967, United States), YA wr.
* Anne-Sophie Brasme (b. 1984, France), nv.
* Anneke Brassinga (b. 1948, Netherlands), wr. & translator
* Lily Braun (1865–1916, Germany), feminist wr.
* Virginia Braun (living, New Zealand), psychologist
* Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883, England), nv.
* Libba Bray (b. 1964, United States), YA nv.
* Teresa Brayton (1868–1943, Ireland/United States), poet & col.
* Angela Brazil (1868–1947, England), YA wr.
* Freda Bream (1918–1996, New Zealand), teacher & autobiographer
* Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021, Jamaica), poet & storyteller
* Marie Bregendahl (1867–1940, Denmark), fiction wr.
* Kirstin Breitenfellner (b. 1966, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv., critic & yoga teacher
* Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865, Sweden), nv. & feminist
* Kristina Brenk (1911–2009, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), ch. wr. & poet
* Maeve Brennan (1917–1993, Ireland/United States), fiction & social wr.
* Sarah Rees Brennan (b. 1983, Ireland/United States), YA nv.
* Anita Brenner (1905–1974, Mexico/United States), cultural wr. in English
* Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730, Sweden), wr., poet & feminist
* Bridget Brereton (b. 1946, Trinidad & Tobago), non-f., historian
* Jane Brereton (1685–1740, Wales), poet
* Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (living, United States/Ghana/Gold Coast), fiction wr. & poet
* Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757, United States), poet & wr.; first named American-born woman to publish
* Yvonne Brewster (b. 1938, Jamaica), mem. & actor
* Melitta Breznik (b. 1961, As/Switzerland), fiction wr.
* Bub Bridger (1924–2009, New Zealand), poet & fiction wr.
* London Bridgez (b. 1982, United States), poet & wr.
* Elín Briem (1856–1937, Iceland), cookery wr.
* Anna Brigadere (fl. 1890–1920s, Latvia), pw.
* Patricia Briggs (b. 1965, United States), fantasy wr.
* Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (1859–1945, Australia/England), wr. & feminist
* Eliza Brightwen (1830–1906, Scotland), wr. & naturalist
* Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes (living, Philippines), wr. in Spanish
* Hesba Brinsmead (1922–2003, Australia), nv.
* Geneviève Brisac (b. 1951, France), nv. & ch. wr.
* Vera Brittain (1893–1970, England), wr., feminist & pacifist
* Victoria Brittain (b. 1942, England), journalist & author
* Sarah Britten (b. 1974, South Africa), social and YA wr. in English
* Rosa María Britton (1936–2019, Panama), fiction wr. & physician
* Dragana Kršenković Brković (living, Montenegro), wr.
* Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Yugoslavia), ch. wr.
* Adele Broadbent (b. 1968, New Zealand), ch. wr.
* Chris Broadribb (living, Australia), fiction wr.
* Renée Brock (1912–1980, Belgium), poet & fiction wr. in French
* Sybil le Brocquy (1892–1973, Ireland), pw. & patron
* Molly Brodak (1980–2020, United States), poet
* Erna Brodber (b. 1940, Jamaica), nv. & sociologist
* Anne Brodbelt (1751–1827, United Kingdom/Jamaica) non-f. wr. & social observer
* Eve Brodlique (1867–1949, England/Canada/United States), wr. & journalist
* Constance Bromley (1882–1939, England), wr., magazine editor, film publicist
* Therese Brummer (1833–1896), Danish children's writer and biographer
* Patricia Burke Brogan (1926–2022), Ireland), pw. & poet
* Suzanne Brøgger (b. 1944, Denmark), nv. & poet
* Vera Broido (1907–2004, Soviet Union/England), social wr.
* Anne Brontë (1820–1849, England), nv. & poet; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
* Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855, England), nv. & poet; Jane Eyre
* Emily Brontë (1818–1848, England), nv. & poet; Wuthering Heights
* Charlotte Brooke (c. 1740–1793, Ireland), translator from Irish
* Emma Brooke (1844–1926, England), nv.
* Frances Brooke (1723–1789, England), nv., es. & pw.
* Iris Brooke (1905 – post-1967, England), non-f. wr. & illustrator
* Susan Brookes (b. c. 1943/44), England), non-f.
* Anita Brookner (1928–2016, England), nv. & art historian
* Geraldine Brooks (b. 1955, Australia/United States), nv.
* Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000, United States), poet & wr.
* Anne Brooksbank (b. 1943, Australia), scriptwriter & pw.
* Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome (1831–1911, Australia), nv., travel & ch. wr.
* Nicole Brossard (b. 1943, Canada/Newfoundland), poet & nv.
* Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930, United States), poet & wr.
* Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920, Wales/England), nv.
* Olga Broumas (b. 1949, Gk/United States), poet
* Flora Brovina (b. 1949, Kosovo), poet & pediatrician
* Irja Agnes Browallius (1901–1968, Finland/Sweden), fiction wr.
* Edith Brower (1848–1931, United States), reformer, non-f. wr.
* Annie Greene Brown (1855–1923, United States), nv.
* Babette Brown (1931–2019, South Africa/England), socio-political wr.
* Cindy Lynn Brown (b. 1973, Denmark/United States), poet
* Deidre Brown (b. 1970, New Zealand), art historian
* Diane Brown (b. 1951, New Zealand), nv. & poet
* Eva Maria Brown (1856–1917, United States), reformer, activist & legal wr.
* Helen Brown (b. 1954, New Zealand/Australia), wr. & col.
* Lily Brown (b. 1981, United States), poet & wr.
* Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012, United States), wr.
* Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952, United States), ch. wr.
* Monica Brown (b. 1969, Peru/United States), ch. wr.
* Pam Brown (b. 1948, Australia), poet & prose wr.
* Pat Brown (b. 1955, United States), wr. on crime
* Rebecca Brown (b. 1956, United States), wr.
* Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944, United States), nv., poet & screenwriter
* Riwia Brown (b. 1957, New Zealand), pw.
* Audrey Brown-Pereira (b. 1975, New Zealand), poet & civil servant
* Emma Alice Browne (1835–1890, United States), poet
* Frances Browne (1816–1879, Ireland), poet & nv., ch. fiction wr.
* Harriet Louisa Browne (1829–1906, Scotland/New Zealand), salonnière & correspondent
* Mary Bonaventure Browne (post-1610 – post-1670, Ireland), abbess & historian
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861, England), poet; Aurora Leigh
* Josette Bruce (1920–1996, Poland/France), nv.
* Mary Grant Bruce (1878–1958, Australia), ch. wr. & col.
* Edith Bruck (b. 1932, Hungary/Italy), fiction wr. & pw. in Italian
* Mary Brück (1925–2008, Ireland/Scotland), astronomer & science historian
* Christine Brückner (1921–1996, Germany), fiction & ch. wr.
* Máire MacSwiney Brugha (1918–2012, Ireland), poet & fiction wr.
* Alyssa Brugman (b. 1974, Australia), YA wr.
* Til Brugman (1888–1958, Netherlands), fiction wr. & poet
* Eliane Brum (b. 1966, Brazil), current affairs wr.
* Herminia Brumana (1897–1954, Argentina), nv. & pw.
* Olga Broumas (b. 1949, Greece/United States), poet in English
* Friederike Brun (1765–1835, Denmark), wr. & salonnière
* Elisa Brune (1966–2018, Belgium), wr. in French
* Marta Brunet (1897–1967, Chile), fiction wr.
* Andrée Brunin (1937–1993, France), poet
* Giuliana Bruno (living, England), environmentalist
* Marianne Bruns (1897–1994, Georgia (Caucasus)), nv. & poet
* Mary Brunton (1778–1818, Scotland), nv.
* Sara Cone Bryant (1873–1956, United States), lecturer, teacher, wr.
* Colette Bryce (b. 1970, Northern Ireland/England), poet
* Jane Bryce (b. 1951, Tanzania/England), non-f. wr, critic, academic
* Bryher (1894–1983, England), nv., poet & mem.
* Annika Bryn (b. 1945, Sweden), fiction wr.
* Anna Brzezińska (b. 1971, Poland), fiction wr.

### Bu–By

* Bu Feiyan (步非烟, b. 1981, China), wuxia nv.
* Mary K. Buck (1849–1901, Bohemia/United States), wr.
* Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973, United States), fiction wr. & biographer; 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Catherine Buckle (b. 1957, Zimbabwe), ch. wr.
* Ann Buckley (living, Ireland), musicologist
* Klara Buda (living, Albania/France), wr. & col.
* Zsuzsanna Budapest (b. 1940, Hungary/United States), non-f. wr. in English
* Mariam Budia (b. 1970, Sp.), pw. & academic
* Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832, England), nv., translator & ch. wr.
* Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani (1710–1784, Dalmatia/Ragusa), poet
* Andrea Hollander Budy (b. 1947, United States), poet
* Aminta Buenaño (b. 1958, Ecuador), wr. & politician
* Ken Bugul (b. 1947, Senegal), nv. in Wolof
* Traude Bührmann (b. 1942, Germany), nv. & col.
* Kanstantsia Builo (1893–1986, Soviet Union/Bulgaria), poet & pw.
* Lela E. Buis (living, United States), fiction, non-f. and poetry
* Ada Buisson (1839–1866), nv. and writer of ghost stories
* Fanny Buitrago (living, Comoros), fiction wr. & pw.
* NoViolet Bulawayo (b. 1981, Zimbabwe), fiction wr.
* Emily Hemans Bulcock (1877–1969, Australia), poet
* Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (1845–1927, Wales), historian
* Victoria Adukwei Bulley (living, England), poet
* Margaret Bullock (1845–1903, New Zealand), col. & nv.
* Silvina Bullrich (1915–1990, Argentina), nv. & screenwriter
* Anna Bülow (died 1519, Sweden), wr., translator & abbess
* Selina Bunbury (1802–1882, Ireland), nv. & travel wr.
* Delfina Bunge (1881–1952, Argentina), poet, fiction wr. & es.
* Anna Bunina (1774–1829, Russia), poet
* Sevim Burak (1931–1983, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction wr. & pw.
* Adda Burch (1869–1929, United States), non-f. wr., teacher, missionary & activist
* Elizabeth Burchill (1904–2003, Australia), wr., nurse & philanthropist
* Catherine Dorothea Burdett (1784–1861, Ireland), nv.
* Carmen de Burgos (1867–1932, Spain), wr. & activist
* Erika Burkart (1922–2010, Switzerland), poet & wr. in German
* Anne Burke (fl. 1780–1805, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Jan Burke (b. 1953, United States), nv. & short story wr.
* Bonnie Burnard (1945–2017, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924, England), pw. & ch. wr.
* Caroline Burney (fl. early 19th century), nv.
* Frances Burney (1776–1828, England), closet pw.
* Frances Burney (1752–1840, England), nv., diarist & pw.
* Sarah Burney (1772–1844, England), nv.
* Clara Louise Burnham (1854–1827, United States), nv.
* Andreas Burnier (1931–2002, Netherlands), poet & wr.
* Anna Burns (b. 1962, Northern Ireland), nv.
* Joanne Burns (b. 1945, Australia), art critic, historian & nv.
* Deborah Burrows (b. 1959, Australia), nv.
* Mary Towne Burt (1842–1898, United States), temperance reformer
* Stephanie Burt (b. 1971, United States), poet & critic
* Margaret Busby (b. 1944, Ghana/Gold Coast), publisher, critic & pw.
* Penny Busetto (living, South Africa), nv. in English
* Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944, United States), wr., poet & col.
* Abena Busia (b. 1953, Ghana/Gold Coast), poet & academic
* Akosua Busia (b. 1966, Ghana/Gold Coast), actor, nv. & screenwriter
* Helle Busacca (1915–1996, Italy), poet, wr. & painter
* Christine Busta (1915–1987, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet & ch. wr.
* Hipatia Cárdenas de Bustamante (1889–1972, Ecuador), wr. & feminist
* María Nieves y Bustamante (1871–1947, Peru), wr.
* Gabriela Bustelo (b. 1962, Spain), nv. & political wr.
* Fatimah Busu (b. 1943, Malaysia), fiction wr. & academic
* Sharon Butala (b. 1940, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Amy Butcher (living, United States), es. & wr.
* Ruby Bute (b. 1943, Aruba), fiction wr., poet & painter
* Dorothy Butler (1925–2015, New Zealand), ch. wr. & mem.
* Gwendoline Butler (also Jennie Melville; 1922–2013, England), nv.
* Octavia Butler (1947–2006, United States), science fiction wr.
* Susan Bulkeley Butler (living, United States), wr.
* Urvashi Butalia (b. 1952, India), writer & activist
* Julia Butschkow (b. 1978, Denmark), fiction wr. & poet
* Miriam Butterworth (1918–2019, United States), pacifist & politician
* Razia Butt (1924–2012, Pakistan), nv. & radio pw.
* Mary Butts (1890–1937, England), modernist wr.
* Rumena Bužarovska (b. 1981, Macedonia), wr.
* A. S. Byatt (1936–2023, England), nv. & poet
* Kim Byeol-ah (b. 1969, Korea), wr.
* Marie Beuzeville Byles (1900–1979, Australia), travel & non-f. wr.
* Maj Bylock (1931–2019, Sweden), ch. wr. & educator
* Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (b. 1972, United States), fiction wr. & anthologist
* Ethna Byrne-Costigan (1904–1991, Ireland), academic & wr.
* Catherine Byron (b. 1947, England/Northern Ireland), poet
* Cheryl Byron (c. 1947–2003, Trinidad), poet & singer
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### Ca–Ch

* Fernán Caballero (1796–1877, Spain), nv.
* Meg Cabot (b. 1967, United States), wr.
* Astrid Cabral (b. 1936, Brazil), nv. & poet
* Cristina Rodríguez Cabral (b. 1959, Uruguay), poet & researcher
* Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991, Cuba), ethnographer
* Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958, Peru), nv., es. & travel wr.
* Esther de Cáceres (1903–1971, Uruguay), poet
* Lydia Cacho (b. 1963, Mexico), social writer
* Caroline Caddy (b. 1944, Australia), poet
* Florence Caddy (1837–1923, England), wr.
* Elizabeth Cadell (1903–1989, India/England), wr.
* Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979, Wales), poet
* Kathleen Caffyn (Iota, 1853–1926, Australia), nv.
* Claude Cahun (1894–1954, France), wr. & photographer
* Cai Yan (蔡琰, late 2nd–early 3rd centuries, China), poet & composer
* Dominique Caillat (living, Switzerland/Germany), social wr.
* Rachel Caine, pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad (1962–2020, United States), nv.
* Mona Caird (c. 1854–1932, Scotland), nv. & es.
* Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires (1873–1935, Portugal), poet & activist
* Susana Calandrelli (1901–1978, Argentina), poet, fiction wr. & es.
* Graciela Rincón Calcaño (1904–1987, Venezuela), wr. & poet
* Moyra Caldecott (1927–2015, South Africa/England), fiction & non-f. Wr.
* Laura Calder (living, Canada), wr.
* Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985, England/United States), nv.
* Hortense Calisher (1911–2009, United States), wr.
* Margaret Callan (c.1817–c.1883), Ireland/Australia), poet
* Maria Callcott (1785–1842, England), ch. & travel wr.
* Nina de Callias (1843–1884, France), poet
* Carmen Callil (1938–2022, Australia/UK), wr. & critic
* June Callwood (1924–2007, Canada/Newfoundland), wr. & activist
* Marie Calm (1832–1887, Germany), poet, nv. and household wr.
* Mena Calthorpe (1905–1996, Australia), nv.
* Paola Calvetti (b. 1948, Italy), nv. & col.
* Carmen Camacho (writer) (born 1976, Spain), wr., poet & col.
* María Enriqueta Camarillo (1872–1968, Mexico), poet & fiction wr.
* Ada Cambridge (1844–1926, Australia), nv., poet & autobiographer
* Joan Cambridge (living, Guyana), nv. & journalist
* María Cambrils (1878–1939, Spain), feminist wr.
* Charlotte Cameron (c. 1872–1946, United States), travel writer
* Elizabeth Cameron (editor) (1851-1929, Canada), edi.
* Margaret Cameron (1867–1947, United States), nv., pw., & non-f. wr.
* Teresa Cameselle (born 1968, Spain) nv. & historical narr.
* Duccia Camiciotti (1928–2014, Italy), poet and es.
* Roser Caminals-Heath (living, Spain), nv. in Catalan
* Cordelia Camp (1884–1973, United States), non-f.
* Kate Camp (b. 1972, New Zealand), poet
* Manuela Campanelli (b. 1962, Italy), science wr.
* Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006, United States), nv.
* Bonnie Jo Campbell (b. 1962, United States), fiction wr.
* Hazel Campbell (1940–2018, Jamaica), fiction & ch. wr.
* Shirley Campbell (b. 1965, Costa Rica), poet
* Lady Colin Campbell (b. 1949, Jamaica/England), biographer
* Marion May Campbell (b. 1948, Australia), nv. & academic
* Meg Campbell (1937–2007, New Zealand), poet
* Nellie Campobello (1900–1986, Mexico), poet & chronicler
* Ana Barrios Camponovo (b. 1961, Uruguay/Spain), wr. & illustrator
* Julieta Campos (1932–2007, Cuba/Mexico), nv.
* María Teresa Campos (b. 1941, Spain), non-f. wr.
* Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956, Spain/United States), wr & poet
* Matilde Camus (1919–2012, Spain), poet & non-f. wr.
* Lorea Canales (living, Mexico), nv. & lawyer
* Amélie-Julie Candeille (1667–1734, France), librettist & composer
* Eva Canel (1857–1932, Spain/Cuba), nv. & satirist
* Marta Canessa (b. 1936, Uruguay), historian & academic
* Yanitzia Canetti (b. 1967, Cuba/United States), nv., es. & ch. wr.
* Emma Mieko Candon, American novelist
* Dorothy Canfield (1879–1958, United States), wr.; Understood Betsy
* May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973, England), poet
* Moya Cannon (b. 1956, Ireland), poet
* Minna Canth (1844–1897, Finland), wr. & activist
* Estela Canto (1919–1994, Argentina), nv., biographer & translator
* Ludmilla Lacueva Canut (b. 1971, Andorra), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Lan Cao (b. 1961, Vietnam/United States), wr.
* Úna-Minh Caomhánach (b. 1991, Ireland), travel & social wr.
* Vahni Capildeo (b. 1973, Trinidad/Scotland), poet
* Maria Aurèlia Capmany (1918–1991, Spain), nv. & pw.
* Jeanne Cappe (1895–1956, Belgium), YA wr. in French
* Margarita Abella Caprile (1901–1960, Argentina), poet & fiction & travel wr.
* Paola Capriolo (b. 1962, Italy), nv.
* Marcelle Capy (1891–1962, France), nv. & feminist
* Ethna Carbery (1864–1902, Ireland), wr. & poet
* Teresa Gisbert Carbonell (1926–2018, Bolivia), art historian
* Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1845–1909, Peru), nv. & es.
* Hazel V. Carby (b. 1946, England/United States), academic & non-f. wr.
* Lara Cardella (b. 1969, Italy), nv.
* Nancy Cárdenas (1934–1994, Mexico), poet & pw.
* Amélia dos Santos Costa Cardia (1855–1938, Portugal), nv. & physician
* Marie Cardinal (1929–2001, Algeria/France), nv.
* Dulce Maria Cardoso (b. 1964, Portugal), fiction wr.
* Bernadette Carey Smith (1939–2022, United States), journalist
* Jacqueline Carey (b. 1964, United States), nv.
* Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909, England), nv. & ch. wr.
* Mary Jane Goodson Carlisle (1835–1905, United States), cookbook wr.
* Patricia Carlon (1927–2002), nv.
* Gunnel Carlson (b. 1956, Sweden), gardening wr.
* Kristina Carlson (b. 1949, Finland), fiction & YA wr. & poet
* Carrie Carlton (1834–1868, United States}, poet, ch. wr., non-f. wr.
* Gladys Carmagnola (1939–2015, Paraguay), poet & ch. wr.
* Amy Carmichael (1867–1951, Ireland/India), wr. & missionary
* Jennings Carmichael (1868–1904, Australia), poet
* María Luisa Carnelli (1898–1987, Argentina), poet & col.
* Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886–1962, England), wr. & socialist campaigner
* Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 – 1901, France), nv.
* Jeanne C. Smith Carr (1825–1903, United States), non-f. wr.
* Marina Carr (b. 1964, Ireland), pw.
* Peggy Carr (b. c. 1955, Saint Vincent/Taiwan), poet & nv.
* Maite Carranza (b. 1958, Spain), nv. & ch. wr.
* Margarita Carrera (1929–2018, Guatemala), philosopher, poet and es.
* Albertina Carri (b. 1973, Argentina), screenwriter & director
* Leonora Carrington (1917–2011, England/Mexico), nv., artist & surrealist
* Austin Carroll (1835–1909, Ireland/United States), religious wr. & nun
* Claudia Carroll (b. c. 1969, Ireland), fiction wr. & actor
* Anne Carson (b. 1950, Canada/Newfoundland), poet, ess., translator & academic
* Rachel Carson (1907–1964, United States), marine biologist & conservationist
* Esther Carstensen (1873–1955, Denmark), rights activist
* Catherine Carswell (1879–1946, Scotland), wr.
* Teresa de Cartagena (c. 1425–?, Spain), religious wr.
* Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994), Dominican poet, fiction wr. & ess.
* Angela Carter (1940–1992, England), nv. & col.
* Anne Laurel Carter (b. 1953, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806, England), poet, wr. & Bluestocking
* Emma de Cartosio (1928–2013, Argentina), wr. & poet
* Candice Carty-Williams (b. 1989, England), nv. & col.
* Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho (1847–1921, Portugal), biographer, fiction wr. & poet
* Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921–1998, Portugal), fiction wr. & poet
* Caroline Carver (b. 1959, England/Australia), nv.
* Lisa Crystal Carver (b. 1968, United States), wr.
* Alice Cary (1820–1871, United States), poet
* Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639, England), pw.
* Phoebe Cary (1824–1871, United States), poet
* Selva Casal (1930–2020, Uruguay), poet
* Fina Casalderrey (b. 1951, Spain), ch. wr. & gastronomer in Galician
* María Andrea Casamayor (1720–1780, Spain), wr. & mathematician
* Sofía Casanova (1861–1958, Spain), poet & nv.
* Borita Casas (1911–1999, Spain), pw. & ch. wr.
* Matilde Casazola (b. 1942, Bolivia), poet & songwriter
* Nené Cascallar (1914–1982, Argentina), broadcast pw. & screenwriter
* Marietta Stanley Case (1845–1900, United States), poet
* Maxine Case (b. 1976, South Africa), fiction wr. in English
* Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960, Sierra Leone), fiction wr. & educator
* Gladys May Casely-Hayford (1901–1950, Sierra Leone), poet
* Anne-Marie Casey (b. 1965, Ireland), screenwriter & nv.
* Kathryn Casey (living, United States), true crime wr. & nv.
* Maie Casey, Baroness Casey (1910–1983, Australia), poet, librettist & biographer
* Deirdre Cash (1924–1963, Australia), nv.
* Kristin Cashore (b. 1976, United States), fantasy wr.
* Linda Ty Casper (b. 1931, Philippines), nv.
* Nina Cassian (1924–2014, Romania/United States), poet, ch. wr. & critic
* P. C. Cast (b. 1960, United States), wr.
* Cecilia Castaño (b. 1953, Spain), political scientist
* Yolanda Castaño (b. 1977, Spain), poet, critic & painter
* Sofía Castañón (b. 1983, Spain), poet
* Adela Castell (1864–1926, Uruguay), es. & poet
* Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974, Mexico), poet & wr.
* Blanca Castellón (b. 1958, Nicaragua), poet
* Castelloza (fl. early 13th century, France), troubadour poet
* Josefina Castellví (b. 1935, Spain), oceanographer & biologist
* Almucs de Castelnau (c. 1140 – pre–1184, France), poet in Occitan
* Gladys Castelvecchi (1922–2008, Uruguay), poet & academic
* Ana Castillo (b. 1953, Mx/United States), fiction wr., poet & es.
* Claire Castillon (b. 1975, France), fiction & ch. wr.
* Agnes Castle (c. 1860–1922, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Elisabeth Castonier (1894–1975, Germany), ch. wr. in German & English
* Inga-Brita Castrén (1919–2003, Finland), theologian
* Luisa Castro (b. 1966, Spain), poet & fiction wr.
* Públia Hortênsia de Castro (1548–1595, Portugal), scholar & nun
* Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885, Spain), wr. & poet in Galician
* Willa Cather (1873–1947, United States), wr.
* Catherine of Siena (1347–1380, Italy), religious writer & saint
* Christine Cole Catley (1922–2011, New Zealand), col. & biographer
* Nancy Cato (1917–2000, Australia), nv., poet & biographer
* Eleanor Catton (b. 1985, Canada/Newfoundland/New Zealand), nv.
* Joyce Cavalccante (living, Brazil), fiction wr.
* Nadia Cavalera (b. 1950, Italy), nv., poet & critic
* Jeanne de Cavally (1926–1992, Ivory Coast), ch. wr.
* Jane Cavendish (1620/1621–1669, England), poet & pw.
* Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673, England), poet, pw. & fiction wr.
* Hannah Rebecca Frances Caverhill (1834–1897, England/New Zealand), diarist & homemaker
* Rosina Cazali (b. 1960, Guatemala), art critic
* Anne-Marie Cazalis (1920–1988, France), poet & col.
* Otilia Cazimir (1894–1967, Romania), poet & prose wr.
* Mercedes Cebrián (b. 1971, Spain), fiction wr. & poet
* Martha Cecilia (b. 1953, Philippines), nv.
* Siv Cedering (1939–2007, Sweden/United States), poet & fiction wr. in Swedish & English
* Peride Celal (1916–2013, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction wr.
* Susannah Centlivre (1667–1723, England), pw. & poet
* Natividad Cepeda (living, Spain), poet & col.
* Laura Cereta (1469–1499, Italy), humanist
* Anica Černej (1900–1944, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Yugoslavia), wr., poet & concentration camp victim
* Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė (b. 1976, Lithuania), pw. & nv.
* Annabel Cervantes (b. 1969, Spain), geographer in Catalan
* Marie Červinková-Riegrová (1854–1895, Austria/Austria-Hungary), librettist
* Isabella Cervoni (1575–1600, Italy), poet
* Ruxandra Cesereanu (b. 1963, Romania), poet, fiction wr. & critic
* Alba de Céspedes (1911–1997, Cuba/Italy), nv.
* Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874, Cuba), wr. & educator
* Ana Cristina Cesar (1952–1983, Brazil), poet & critic
* Fethiye Çetin (b. 1950, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), political biographer
* Violante do Céu (fl. 17th century, Portugal), poet
* Margaret Cezair-Thompson (living, Jamaica), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982, United States), nv. & artist
* Dulce Chacón (1954–2003, Spain), poet, nv. & pw.
* Zofia Chądzyńska (1912–2003, Poland), nv.
* Nadia Chafik (b. 1962, Morocco), fiction wr. in French
* Arlene J. Chai (b. 1955, Philippines/Australia), nv.
* Annie Emma Challice (1821–1875, England), wr. & non-f. wr.
* Brenda Chamberlain (1912–1971, Wales), poet, nv. & artist
* Anne Chambers (living, Ireland), biographer, nv. & screenwriter
* Kátya Chamma (b. 1961, Brazil), poet & wr.
* Tracy Chamoun (b. 1960, Lebanon), political wr. & diplomat
* Élise Champagne (1897–1983, Belgium), educator & wr. in French
* Ernestina de Champourcín (1905–1999, Spain), poet
* Françoise Chandernagor (b. 1945, France), nv. & pw.
* Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834, United States), poet & wr.
* Lynda Chanwai-Earle (living, Papua New Guinea/New Zealand), pw., poet & scriptwriter
* Hester Chapone (1827–1901, England), wr. of conduct books
* Corinne Chaponnière (b. 1954, Switzerland/Canada/Newfoundland), social wr. & biographer in French
* Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805, Netherlands/France), fiction wr. & correspondent in French
* Raquel Chaves (b. 1939, Paraguay), poet & nv.
* Daína Chaviano (b. 1957, Cuba/United States), science fiction wr.
* Neelam Saxena Chandra (b. 1969, India), poet & ch. wr.
* Chandramathi (b. 1954, India), fiction wr. & critic
* Chang Ch'ung-ho (張充和, 1914–2015, China/United States), poet & singer
* Diana Chang (1934–2009, China/United States), nv. & poet
* Eileen Chang (张爱玲, 1920–1995, China/United States), es., nv. & screenwriter
* Jung Chang (b. 1952, China/United States), wr.; Wild Swans
* Zeenat Abdullah Channa (1919–1974, India/Pakistan), wr. & educationist
* Lynda Chanwai-Earle (living, Papua New Guinea/New Zealand), pw., poet & scriptwriter
* Rose Woodallen Chapman (1875–1923, United States), non-f. wr. & ed.
* Hester Chapone (1727–1801, England), wr. & Bluestocking
* Madeleine Chapsal (1925–2024, France), nv., es. & ch. wr.
* Charlotte Charke (1713–1760, England), pw., nv. & autobiographer
* Edmonde Charles-Roux (1920–2016, France), nv. & col.
* Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (1652–1722, Germany), correspondent
* Maureen Charlton (1930–2007, Ireland), pw. & poet
* Janet Charman (b. 1954, New Zealand), poet
* Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805, Netherlands), nv. in French
* Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938, Russia), nv.
* Victorine Chastenay (1771–1855), wr. & mem.
* Noëlle Châtelet (b. 1944, France), es. & fiction wr.
* Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969, India), nv. & historian
* Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876, England), wr. & traveler
* Beth Chatto (1923–2018, England), garden wr.
* Jayasri Chattopadhyay (b. 1945, India), poet & academic
* Anuja Chauhan (b. 1970, India), nv. & screenwriter
* Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948, India), poet & Hindi songwriter
* Nan Chauncy (1900–1970, Australia), ch. wr.
* Susana Chávez (1974–2011, Mexico), poet & activist
* Daína Chaviano (b. 1960, Curaçao), wr.
* Chantal Chawaf (b. 1943, France), social wr.
* Dniprova Chayka (1861–1927, Russia/Ukraine), poet & fiction wr.
* Charlotte Saumaise de Chazan (1619–1684, France), poet
* Mavis Cheek (b. c. 1948, England), nv.
* Isabel Cheix (1839–1899, Spain), nv., poet & pw.
* Olena Chekan (1946–2013, Ukraine), screenwriter & actor
* Saveria Chemotti (b. 1947, Italy), non-f., es. & nv.
* Chen Danyan (陈丹燕, b. 1958, China), biographer
* Chen Jingrong (陳敬容, 1917–1989, China), poet
* Chen Xuezhao (陈学昭, 1906–1991, China), es. & col.
* Ying Chen (应晨, b. 1961, China/Canada/Newfoundland), wr.
* Aïcha Chenna (1941–2022, Morocco), social wr. & activist
* Cheon Un-yeong (천운영, b. 1971, Korea), fiction wr.
* Svetlana Chervonnaya (b. 1948, Soviet Union/Russia), political historian
* Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648–1711, France), poet, painter & musician
* Kelly Cherry (1940–2022, United States), nv., poet & es.
* C. J. Cherryh (b. 1942, United States), science fiction & fantasy wr.
* Anna Maria Chetwode (fl. 1827, Ireland), nv.
* Angelica Cheung (张宇, China), fashion wr. & editor
* Tracy Chevalier (b. 1962, United States/England), nv.; Girl with a Pearl Earring
* Corinne Chevallier (b. 1935, Algeria), nv. & historian
* Elizabeth Washington Foote Cheves (fl. 1840s; United States), wr. & poet
* Helmina von Chézy (1783–1856, Germany), poet, pw. and col.
* Catherine Chidgey (b. 1970, New Zealand), fiction wr.
* Panashe Chigumadzi (b. 1991, Zimbabwe), col., es. & nv.
* Sagawa Chika (左川ちか,1911–1936, Japan), poet
* Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880, United States), poet & nv.
* Alice Childress (1916–1994, United States), pw. & nv.
* Emelie C. S. Chilton (1838–1864, United States). ss. wr. & poet
* Cecile Cilliers (1933–2018, South Africa), es. in Afrikaans
* Irma Chilton (1930–1990, Wales), ch. wr.
* Mei Chin (b. 1977, United States), wr. & food critic
* Luz Argentina Chiriboga (b. 1940, Ecuador), fiction wr.
* Toriko Chiya (稚野鳥子, living, Japan), manga creator
* Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田千代尼, 1703–1775, Japan), haiku poet
* Paulina Chiziane (b. 1955, Mozambique), fiction wr.
* Youmna Chlala (living, Lebanon/United States), political wr. & artist
* Joanna Chmielewska (1932–2013, Poland), nv. & screenwriter
* Zen Cho (b. 1986, Malaysia/England), fiction wr.
* Sonia Chocrón (b. 1961, Venezuela), poet, nv. & pw.
* Kunzang Choden (b. 1952, Bhutan), nv.
* Pema Chödrön (b. 1936, United States), Buddhist wr.
* Choe Yun (최윤, b. 1953, Korea), fiction wr.
* Choi Jeong-rye (최정례, 1955–2021, Korea), poet
* Susan Choi (b. 1969, United States), nv. & editor
* Maryse Choisy (1903–1979, France), philosophical wr. & nv.
* Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925, England), nv.
* Lathóg of Tír Chonaill (fl. 9th century, Ireland), poet
* Denise Chong (b. 1953, Canada/Newfoundland), mem. & non-f. wr.
* Kate Chopin (1851–1904, United States), fiction wr.
* Lynda Chouiten (living, Algeria), non-f. wr.
* Prem Chowdhry (b. 1944, India), social scientist
* Rita Chowdhury (b. 1960, India), poet & nv.
* Helene Christaller (1872–1953, Germany), ch. nv.
* Linda Christanty (b. 1970, Indonesia), fiction wr. & es.
* Ada Christen (1839–1901, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet & fiction wr.
* Inger Christensen (1935–2009, Denmark), poet & prose wr.
* Kate Christensen (b. 1962, United States), nv.
* Autumn Christian (living, United States), horror & science fiction wr.
* Yvette Christiansë (b. 1954, South Africa/United States), poet & nv. in English
* Agatha Christie (1890–1976, England), crime wr. & pw.; The Mousetrap
* Elizabeth Christitch (1861–1933, Ireland/Serbia), wr., poet & translator
* Nanae Chrono (黒乃奈々絵, b. 1980, Japan), manga creator
* Chrystos (b. 1946, United States), Menominee rights activist & poet
* Daria Chubata (b. 1940, Ukraine), physician, wr., poet
* R. Chudamani (1931–2010, India), fiction wr.
* Elena Chudinova (b. 1959, Soviet Union/Russia), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710, England), poet, es. & wr.
* Leila Chudori (b. 1962, Indonesia), fiction & ch. wr. & screenwriter
* Rain Chudori (b. 1994, Indonesia), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991, India), wr.
* Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996, Soviet Union), political wr. & poet
* Eugenia Chuprina (b. 1971, Ukraine), poet, wr., nv., & pw.
* Caryl Churchill (b. 1938, England), pw.
* Sarah Churchwell (b. 1977, United States), academic
* Sylwia Chutnik (b. 1979, Poland), nv. & activist

### Ci–Co

* Fausta Cialente (1898–1994, Italy), nv. & activist
* Maria Luisa Cicci (1760–1794, Italy), woman of letters & poet
* Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914–2024, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), archaeologist
* Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (1929–2017, Lithuania/United States), linguist & critic
* Zehra Çırak (b. 1960, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Germany), fiction wr. in German
* Victoria Cirlot (b. 1955, Spain), medievalist
* Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954, United States), fiction wr.
* Aïssatou Cissé (b. 1970/1971, Senegal), nv.
* Lana Citron (b. 1969, Ireland/England), fiction wr, screenwriter & poet
* Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek (1893–1964, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), political wr.
* Gabrielle Civil (living, United States), performance artist, poet, & educator
* Hélène Cixous (b. 1937 Algeria/France), poet, pw. & philosopher
* Ellen Clacy (1830–1901, Australia), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Nadezhda Bravo Cladera (living, Bolivia/Sweden), linguist & researcher
* Daphne Clair (b. 1939, New Zealand), nv. & poet
* Paula Clamp (b. 1967, England), nv. & pw.
* Amy Clampitt (1920–1994, United States), poet & wr.
* Myriam J. A. Chancy (b. 1970, Haiti/Canada), nv. & academic
* Fanny Clar (1875–1944, France), journalist & wr.
* Cassandra Clare (b. 1973, United States), young-adult fiction wr.
* Monica Clare (1924–1973, Australia), nv.
* Clarinda (fl. early 17th century, Peru), poet
* Harriet E. Clark (1850–1945, US), teacher & wr.
* Mavis Thorpe Clark (1909–1999, Australia), non-f. & ch. wr.
* Sue Cassidy Clark (living, United States), music col. & photographer
* Joan Clark (b. 1934, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Margaret Clark (b. 1964, United States), historian, wr. & educator
* Mary Higgins Clark (1927–2020), United States), nv.
* Amy Key Clarke (1892–1980, England), mystical poet, wr. & teacher
* Anna Clarke (1919–2004, England), mystery wr.
* Jennie Thornley Clarke (1860–1924, United States), educator, wr., & anthologist
* Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke (1865–1953, Ireland), nv.
* Maxine Beneba Clarke (living, Australia), wr.
* Breena Clarke (living, United States), scholar & wr. of fiction
* Cheryl Clarke (b. 1947, United States), poet, es. & activist
* Coralie Clarke (Coralie Clarke Rees, 1908–1972, Australia), travel wr.
* Gillian Clarke (b. 1937, Wales), poet, pw. & broadcaster
* Mrs. Henry Clarke (1853–1908, England), fiction & ch. wr.
* Mary H. Gray Clarke (1835–1992, United States), wr., correspondent & poet
* Maude Clarke (1892–1935, Northern Ireland/England), historian
* Susanna Clarke (b. 1959, England), nv.
* Patricia Clapp (1912–2003, United States), ch. wr.
* Margareta Clausdotter (died 1486, Sweden), wr. & abbess
* Ana Clavel (b. 1961, Mexico), fiction wr.
* Beverly Cleary (1916–2021, United States), ch. wr.
* Kate McPhelim Cleary (1863–1905, United States), fiction wr.
* Joceline Clemencia (1952–2011, Curaçao), wr. & linguist
* Catherine Clément (b. 1939, France), philosopher, nv. & critic
* Inga Clendinnen (1934–2016, Australia), wr. & historian
* Cleobulina (fl. c. 550 BC, Ancient Greece), poet
* Agnes Mary Clerke (1942–2007, Ireland), astronomer
* Claude Catherine de Clermont (1543–1603, France), scholar & courtier
* Michelle Cliff (1946–2016, Jamaica/United States), fiction wr., poet & critic
* Charmian Clift (1923–1969, Australia), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Lucille Clifton (1936–2010, United States), poet, wr. & educator
* Gloria Griffen Cline (1929–1973, United States), historian
* Michelle T. Clinton (b. 1955, United States), poet.
* Caroline Clive (1801–1872, England), poet & nv.
* Kitty Clive (1711–1785, England), actor & pw.
* Bente Clod (b. 1946, Denmark), poet & prose wr.
* Amal Clooney (b. 1978, Lebanon/England), legal & political wr.
* Marie Closset (Jean Dominique, 1873–1952, Belgium), poet in French
* Carol J. Clover (b. 1940, United States), non-f. wr. and film theorist
* Anne Cluysenaar (1936–2014, Belgium/Ireland), poet & wr. in English
* Hafina Clwyd (1936–2011, Wales), es. & educator
* Constance Clyde (1872–1951, New Zealand/Australia), nv. & political wr.
* Ella Maria Dietz Clymer (1847–1920, United States), poet & actor
* Nellie Euphemia Coad (1883–1974, New Zealand/England), textbook wr.
* Lynn Coady (b. 1970, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr. & col.
* Wendy Coakley-Thompson (b. 1966, United States), nv.
* Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927, United States), poet
* Carola Cobo (1909–2003, Bolivia), cookery wr.
* Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite (c. 1764–1850, Ireland/England), poet
* Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904, Ireland), wr. & suffragist
* Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914, England), poet, wr., and suffragist
* Sofia Cocea (1839–1861, Romania), es. & poet
* Sarah Johnson Cocke (1865–1944, United States), wr. & mem.
* Patricia Cockburn (1914–1989, Ireland/England), writer & conchologist
* Grace Coddington (b. 1941, Wales), fashion wr. & mem.
* Mariana Codruț (b. 1956, Romania), poet, es. & fiction wr.
* Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940, Canada/Newfoundland/United States), wr.
* Mariana Coelho (1857–1954, Portugal/Brazil), poet & es.
* Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990, Portugal), radio pw. & fiction & ch. wr.
* Ana Cofiño (b. 1955, Guatemala), anthropologist & historian
* Lenore Coffee (1896–1973, United States), nv., pw., and screenwriter
* Yolande Cohen (b. 1950, Morocco/Canada) historian & professor
* Gabrielle de Coignard (1550–1586, France), religious poet
* Virginia Coigney (1917–1997, United States), civic leader & wr.
* Allison Hedge Coke (b. 1958, United States), poet & wr.
* Marina Colasanti (b. 1937, Eritrea/Brazil), wr. & poet
* Frona Eunice Wait Colburn (1859–1946, United States), col. & fiction wr.
* H. Maria George Colby (1844–1910, United States), col. & suffragist
* Emma Shaw Colcleugh (1846–1940, United States), col., lecturer & traveler
* Joanna Cole (1944–2020, United States), ch. wr.
* Lois Dwight Cole (1903–1979, United States), editor & ch. wr.
* Norma Cole (b. 1945, United States), poet, artist & translator
* Alice Blanchard Coleman (1858–1936, United States), nf. wr.
* Wanda Coleman (1946–2013, United States), poet
* Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso (1821–1904, New Zealand), Bible translator & missionary
* Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921, England), nv. & editor
* Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907, England), nv. & poet
* Sara Coleridge (1802–1852, England), wr. & translator
* Louise Colet (1910–1976, France), poet & wr.
* Colette (1873–1954, France), nv.; Gigi
* Isabel Colegate (1931–2023, England), nv.
* Marcia Collazo (b. 1959, Uruguay), poet & fiction wr.
* Lindsey Collen (b. 1948, South Africa/Mauritius), wr. in English & Creole
* Camilla Collett (1813–1895, Norway), nv., critic & es.
* Anne-Hyacinthe de Colleville (1761–1824, France), nv. & pw.
* Ada Langworthy Collier (1843–1919, United States), poet & wr.
* Catrin Collier (b. 1948, England), nv. & pw.
* Jennie Collins (1828–1887, United States), activist & wr.
* Daphné Collignon (b. 1977, France), comic book wr.
* Mabel Collins (1851–1927, England), theosophist
* Merle Collins (b. 1950, Grenada), poet & fiction wr.
* Suzanne Collins (b. 1962, United States), nv.
* Danielle Collobert (1940–1978, France), fiction wr. & poet
* Joséphine Colomb (1833–1892, France), children's wr., lyricist & translator
* Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547, Italy), poet
* Mary Colum (1884–1957, Ireland/United States), critic & wr.
* Mercedes Comaposada (1901–1994, Spain), non-f. wr.
* Sigrid Combüchen (b. 1942, Sweden), nv. & critic
* Cristina Comencini (b. 1956, Italy), screenwriter & nv.
* Anna Manning Comfort (1845–1931, United States), fiction and non-f. wr.
* Flavia Company (b. 1963, Argentina), nv. & poet
* Mercè Company (b. 1947, Spain), ch. wr. in Catalan
* Anne Compton (b. 1947, Canada/Newfoundland), poet, critic & anthologist
* Jennifer Compton (b. 1949, New Zealand/Australia), poet & pw.
* Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969, England), nv.
* Helen Field Comstock (1840–1930, United States), poet, philanthropist
* Helena Concannon (1878–1952, Ireland), historian & politician
* Francisca Josefa de la Concepción (1661–1742, Comoros), nun & mystic
* Nieves Concostrina (b. 1961, Spain), history wr.
* Carmen Conde (1907–1996, Spain), poet & nv.
* Maryse Condé (1937–2024), Guadeloupe/France), nv.
* Rosina Conde (b. 1954, Mexico), narrator, pw. & poet
* Teresa del Conde (1935–2017, Mexico), critic & art historian
* Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934, United States), poet & professor
* Sandra Coney (b. 1944, New Zealand), historian & health campaigner
* Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin (1831–1914, United States), poet & religious wr.
* Evelyn Conlon (b. 1952, Ireland), fiction wr. & es.
* Marita Conlon-McKenna (b. 1956, Ireland), fiction and ch. wr.
* Eliza Archard Conner (1838–1912, United States), lecturer & feminist
* Elizabeth Marney Conner (1856–1941, United States), pw., educator & wr.
* Susan E. Connolly (b. c. 1980, Ireland), fiction & non-f. wr.
* June Considine (living, Ireland), ch. wr.
* Lena Constante (1909–2005, Romania), es., mem. & artist
* Josefina Constantino (1920–2024, Philippines/Australia), es., critic & poet
* Ana Conta-Kernbach (1865–1921, Romania), wr. & educator
* Dorothea Conyers (1869–1949, Ireland), nv.
* Diane Cook (living, United States), fiction wr.
* Eliza Cook (1818–1889, England), poet
* Katherine M. Cook (1876–1962, United States), non-f. wr.
* Selma Cook (b. 1961, England), editor
* Kay McKenzie Cooke (b. 1953, New Zealand), poet
* Marvel Cooke (1903–2000, United States), col. & wr.
* Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (b. 1930, United States), Sioux poet, nv. & academic
* Ina Coolbrith (b. Josephine Anna Smith, 1841–1928, United States), poet
* Deborah Coonts (living, United States), nv. & lawyer
* Carolyn Cooper (b. 1950, Jamaica), wr. & critic
* J. California Cooper (1931–2014, United States), pw. & fiction wr.
* Wendy Cope (b. 1945, England), poet
* Esther Copley (1786–1851, England), religious & ch. wr.
* Marguerite Coppin (1867–1931, Belgium), poet & nv. in French
* Cora Coralina (1889–1985, Brazil), wr. & poet
* Judy Corbalis (living, New Zealand/England), fiction wr.
* Helena Corbellini (b. 1959, Uruguay), fiction wr. & poet
* Gilda Cordero-Fernando (1932–2020, Philippines), fiction & food wr.
* Leonor López de Córdoba (1362/1363–1430, Spain), mem.
* Marie Corelli (1855–1924, England), nv.
* Corinna (Κόριννα, 6th century BC, Ancient Greece), poet
* Cornificia (c. 85–c. 40 BC, Ancient Rome), poet & epigram wr.
* Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858, England), wr. on education, philosophy & science
* Jane Cornwallis (1581–1659, England), correspondent
* Anita Cornwell (1923–2023, United States), wr.
* Patricia Cornwell (b. 1956, United States), crime wr.
* Carolina Coronado (1820–1911, Spain), poet, nv. & pw.
* Domitila García de Coronado (1847–1938, Cuba), biographer & anthologist
* Celia Correas de Zapata (1933–2022, Argentina), poet & academic
* Hélia Correia (b. 1949, Portugal), nv., pw. & poet
* Natália Correia (1923–1993, Portugal), poet & activist
* Cecilia K Corrigan (b. 1987, United States), poet & wr.
* Willy Corsari (1897-1998, Netherlands), nv., pw. & ch.
* Sarah Cortez (living, United States), poet, editor & es.
* Jayne Cortez (1936–2012, United States), poet & artist
* Maria Corti (1915–2002, Italy), philologist, critic & nv.
* Mary Corylé (1894–1976, Ecuador), wr. & poet
* Giselle Cossard (1923–2016, Morocco/Brazil), anthropologist
* Alicia Yánez Cossío (b. 1928, Ecuador), poet & nv.
* Lola Costa (1903–2004, England), painter, wr. & poet
* Margherita Costa (c. 1600 – post-1657, Italy), poet & pw.
* Maria Velho da Costa (1938–2020, Portugal), wr.
* Mary Costello (living, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Saskia De Coster (b. 1976, Belgium), wr. in Flemish
* Sophie Ristaud Cottin (1770–1807, France), nv.
* Dorothy Cottrell (1902–1957, Australia), nv.
* Violet May Cottrell (1887–1971, New Zealand), wr., poet & spiritualist
* Anna Couani (b. 1948), nv., poet & artist
* Micheline Coulibaly (1950–2003, Ivory Coast/Mexico), fiction & ch. wr.
* Emily Coungeau (1860–1936, Australia), poet
* Ajeet Cour (b. 1934, India), nv. & social wr.
* Dilly Court (b. 1940, England), hist. nv.
* Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950, Germany), nv.
* Joanna Courtmans (1811–1890, Belgium), poet & prose wr. in Flemish
* Arlette Cousture (b. 1948, Canada/Newfoundland), wr.
* Sonia Coutinho (1939–2013, Brazil), fiction wr.
* Dani Couture (b. 1978, Canada/Newfoundland), poet & nv.
* Jessie Couvreur (1848–1897, Australia), nv.
* Jeni Couzyn (b. 1942, South Africa/Canada/Newfoundland), poet & ch. wr. in English
* Ena Fitzgerald (1889–1962, England), nv., poet, ss. wr.
* Hannah Cowley (1743–1809, England), pw. & poet
* Joy Cowley (b. 1936, New Zealand), nv. & ch. wr.
* Roz Cowman (b. 1942, Ireland), poet & critic
* E. E. Cowper (1859–1933, England), nv.
* Josephine Cox (1938–2020, England), nv.
* Martine Le Coz (b. 1955, France), nv.

### Cr–Cz

* Ioana Crăciunescu (b. 1950, Romania), poet & actor
* Fanny Cradock (1909–1994, England), cookery wr.
* Sara Jane Crafts (1845–1930, United States), non-f. wr.
* Christine Craig (b. 1943, Jamaica/United States), ch. wr. & poet
* Cola Barr Craig (1861–1930, United States), nv. & ss. wr.
* Mary Craig (1928–2019, England), journalist & wr.
* Mary Lynde Craig (1834–1921, United States), wr., teacher & activist
* Nicole Craig (b. 1974, Trinidad), poet & fiction wr.
* Dinah Mulock Craik (1826–1887, England), nv.
* Helen Craik (1751–1825, Scotland), nv.
* Harriet L. Cramer (1847–1922, United States), editor, publisher
* Hazel Crane (1951–2003, Ireland/South Africa), mem.
* Nathalia Crane (1913–1998, United States), poet & nv.
* Sibylla Bailey Crane (1851–1902, United States), educator, composer, non-f. wr.
* Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell (1933–2004), poet & fiction wr.
* Margaret Craven (1901–1980, United States), nv.
* Pauline Marie Armande Craven (1808–1891, France), wr. & autobiographer
* Rachael Craw (living, New Zealand), nv. & YA wr.
* Emily Crawford (1841–1915, Ireland/France), col. & biographer
* Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887, Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Mabel Sharman Crawford (1820–1912, Ireland), travel wr.
* Susan P. Crawford (b. 1963, United States), law professor
* Máirín Cregan (1891–1975, Ireland), pw., nv. & ch. wr.
* Jane Tapsubei Creider (b. 1940s, Kenya), autobiographer, nv, fiction and non-f. wr
* Barbara Creed (b. 1943, Australia), non-f. and film theorist
* Hélisenne de Crenne (c. 1510–1552, France), nv. & correspondent
* Jasmine Cresswell (b. 1941, Wales), nv.
* Julia Pleasants Creswell (1827–1886, United States), poet, nv
* Alice Guerin Crist (1876–1941, Australia), poet, fiction wr. & col.
* Judith Crist (1922–2012, United States), film critic
* Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848, England), poet
* Maria Sonia Cristoff (b. 1965, Argentina), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Alison Croggon (b. 1962, Argentina), poet, pw. & nv.
* Bithia Mary Croker (1849–1920, Ireland/India), travel wr.
* May Crommelin (1850–1930, Ireland/England), nv. & travel wr.
* M. T. C. Cronin (b. 1963, Australia), wr.
* Judy Croome (b. 1958, Zimbabwe/South Africa), fiction wr. & poet
* Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812–1895, England), wr. & poet
* Elsa Cross (b. 1946, Mexico), poet & es.
* Fiona Cross (living, New Zealand), arachnologist
* Zora Cross (1890–1964, Australia), poet & prose wr.
* Sarah Crossan (living, Ireland), YA wr.
* Julia Crottie (1853 – c. 1930, Ireland/United States), nv.
* Karen Crouse (living, United States), wr.
* Alev Croutier (b. 1954, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/United States), non-f. wr.
* Catherine Crowe (1800–1876, England), pw., nv. & ch. book wr.
* Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975, Scotland), poet in Braid Scots & English
* Coralie van den Cruyce (1796–1858, Belgium), pw. in French
* Aixa de la Cruz (b. 1988, Spain), fiction wr.
* Conchitina Cruz (living, Philippines), poet & academic
* Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695, Mexico), poet, pw. and nun
* Gabriella Csire (b. 1938, Romania), ch. wr. in Hungarian
* Cristina Fernández Cubas (b. 1945, Spain), fiction wr.
* María Guadalupe Cuenca (1790–1854, Bolivia), letter writer
* Mireya Cueto (1922–2013, Mexico), wr. & puppeteer
* Briceida Cuevas (b. 1969, Mexico), poet in Mayan
* Anne Virginia Culbertson (1857–1918, United States), poet, wr.
* Belle Caldwell Culbertson (1857–1934, United States), non.f. wr.
* Diana Çuli (b. 1951, Albania), wr. & politician
* Catherine Ann Cullen (living, Ireland), poet
* Majella Cullinane (living, Ireland/New Zealand), nv. & poet
* Meta Davis Cumberbatch (1900–1978, Trinidad/Bahamas), poet, pw. & activist
* Jackie Cumming (living, New Zealand), health-care wr. & academic
* Alissandra Cummins (b. 1958, Barbados), non-f. wr.
* Geraldine Cummins (1890–1969, Ireland), spiritualist, nv. & pw.
* Maria Susanna Cummins (1827–1866, United States), nv.
* Anne Cuneo (1936–2015, Switzerland), nv. in French
* Lady Margaret Cunningham (died c. 1622, Scotland), mem. & correspondent
* Pat Cumper (b. 1954, England), pw.
* Helena Parente Cunha (1929–2023, Brazil), wr. & educator
* Maria Renee Cura (died 2007, Argentina), non-f. wr.
* Cecilia Curbelo (b. 1975, Uruguay), wr. & col.
* Suzanne Curchod (1737–1794, Switzerland/France), social mem. in French
* Jean Curlewis (1898–1930, Argentina), ch. wr.
* Judi Curtin (b. 1960s, Ireland), ch. wr.
* Nannie Webb Curtis (1861–1920, United States), non-f. wr. & ed.
* Dymphna Cusack (1902–1981, Australia), nv. & pw.
* Margaret Anna Cusack (1829–1999, Ireland), biographer, social wr. & nun
* Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (b. 1949, Bolivia), historian & feminist
* Rachel Cusk (b. 1967, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Sheila Cussons (1922–2004, South Africa), poet in Afrikaans
* Catherine Cuthbertson (c. 1775–1842, England), nv.
* Umihana Čuvidina (c. 1794 – c. 1870, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Bosnia-Herzegovina), poet
* Eunice P. Cutter (1819–1898), American, anatomy textbooks
* Aleksandra Čvorović (b. 1976, Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Herzegovina), wr. & librarian
* Ptolemais of Cyrene (3rd century BC or later, Ancient Greece), wr. on music
* Izabela Czartoryska (1846–1935, Poland), Enlightenment wr.
* Julie E. Czerneda (b. 1955, Canada/Newfoundland), science fiction & fantasy wr.
* Sidney Czira (1889–1974, Ireland/United States), wr. & broadcaster
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### Da–Dh

* Selma Dabbagh (b. 1970, Scotland/Palestine), fiction wr.
* Emma Dabiri (b. 1979, Ireland/England), wr., academic & broadcaster
* Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965, Poland), nv., es. & pw.
* Anne Dacier (1645–1720, France), scholar & translator
* Luísa Dacosta (1927–2015, Portugal), fiction wr., poet & diarist
* Esha Dadawala (b. 1985, India), poet & fiction wr.
* Aneta Dadeshkeliani (1872–1922, Georgia (Caucasus)), poet & social reformer
* Nino Dadeshkeliani (1890–1931, Georgia (Caucasus)), wr. & politician
* Stella Dadzie (b. 1952, England), activist & historian
* Emilia Dafni (1881–1941, Greece), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Valentina K Dafa (1971, Albania) poet
* Catrin Dafydd (b. c. 1982, Wales), wr. & poet
* Fflur Dafydd (b. 1978, Wales), nv. & musician
* Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir (1930–2021, Iceland), poet
* Elizabeth Frances Dagley (1788–1853, England), ch. wr.
* Marianna Debes Dahl (b. 1947, Faroe Islands), fiction & ch. wr.
* Tora Dahl (1886–1983, Sweden), nv. & educator
* Ulla Dahlerup (b. 1942, Denmark), wr. & rights activist
* Dai Houying (戴厚英, 1938–1996, China), nv.
* Tamaki Daido (大道珠貴, b. 1966, Japan), radio scriptwriter & nv.
* Lois Daish (living, New Zealand), food & cookery wr.
* Jocelyne Dakhlia (b. 1959, France), historian & anthropologist
* Marguerite Dale (1883–1963, Australia), pw. & feminist
* Debra Daley (living, New Zealand), nv. & screenwriter
* Yrsa Daley-Ward (b. 1989, England), poet
* Gilberte H. Dallas (1918–1960, France/Switzerland), poet
* Ruth Dallas (1919–2008, New Zealand), poet & ch. wr.
* Ann Dally (1929–2007, England), wr. & psychiatrist
* Ita Daly (b. 1945, Ireland), fiction & ch. writer
* Mary E. Daly (living, Ireland), historian & academic
* Kathleen Dalziel (1881–1969, Australia), poet
* Achta Saleh Damane (living, Chad), wr. & politician
* Svetla Damyanovska (living, Bulgaria), poet & fiction wr.
* Virgilia D'Andrea (1888–1933, Italy), poet & politician
* Jordan Dane (b. 1953, United States), thriller wr.
* Charlotte Daneau de Muy (1694–1759, Canada) ursuline & non-f. wr.
* Utta Danella (1920–2015, Germany), fiction wr.
* Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012, Iran/Persia), fiction wr. & academic
* Tsitsi Dangarembga (b. 1959, Zimbabwe), wr. & filmmaker
* Ana Daniel (1928–2011, Portugal), poet
* Anna Dániel (1908–2003, Hungary), nv. & YA wr.
* Cora Linn Daniels (1852–1934, United States), wr.
* Tatyana Danilyants (b. 1971, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & film director
* Mabel Dove Danquah (1910–1984, Ghana/Gold Coast), fiction wr.
* Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (b. 1967, Ghana/Gold Coast/United States), wr. & editor
* Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969, Haiti/United States), nv.
* Zakya Daoud (b. 1937, France/Morocco), sociologist & historian
* Xie Daoyun (謝道韞, pre-AD 340 – post-399, China), poet & calligrapher
* Mildred Darby (1867–1932, Ireland), nv.
* Ailbhe Darcy (b. 1981, Ireland), poet
* Eleanor Dark (1901–1985, Australia), nv.
* Amma Darko (b. 1956, Ghana/Gold Coast), nv.
* Annie McCarer Darlington (1836–1907, United States), poet
* Tina Darragh (b. 1950, United States), poet
* Marie Darrieussecq (b. 1969, France), nv., biographer & ch. wr.
* Cecilia Dart-Thornton (living, Australia), fantasy wr.
* Helen Darville (Helen Dale, Helen Demidenko; b. 1972, Australia), col. & nv.
* Kamala Das (1932–2009, India), poet & fiction wr.
* Mahadai Das (1954–2003, Guyana), poet
* Countess Dash (1804–1872, France), nv.
* Filomena Dato (1856–1926, Spain), feminist, wr.
* Sukanya Datta (b. 1961, India), zoologist & science wr.
* Marcia Davenport (1903–1996, United States), nv., biographer & mem.
* Selina Davenport (1779–1859, England), nv.
* Gertrud David (1872–1936, Germany), screenwriter and col.
* Henriette Davidis (1801–1876, Germany), cookery wr.
* Joy Davidman (b. Helen Joy Davidman, 1915–1960, United States), wr. & poet
* Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969, France), traveler, wr. & Buddhist
* Nadia Davids (b. 1977, South Africa), wr. & pw. in English
* MaryJanice Davidson (b. 1969, United States), poet
* Catherine Glyn Davies (1926–2007, Wales), philosopher & historian
* Gwen Davies (b. 1964, Wales), translator & editor
* Margaret Davies (c. 1700–1778 or 1785, Wales), poet & scribe
* Mary Davies (1846–1882, Wales), poet
* Amparo Dávila (1928–2020, Mexico), fiction wr.
* Delia Davin (1944–2016, England), wr. on Chinese society
* Winnie Davin (1909–1995, New Zealand/England), wr. & editor
* Angela Davis (b. 1944, United States), philosopher & activist
* Bridgett M. Davis (living, United States), nv. & filmmaker
* Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916−2014, United States), mystery nv.
* Jackie Davis (b. 1963, New Zealand), nv., poet & pw.
* Kyra Davis (b. 1972, United States), nv.
* Lydia Davis (b. 1947, United States), fiction wr. & es.
* Mary Hayes Davis (c.1884–1948, United States), folklore wr. & news editor
* Norma Davis (1905–1945, Australia), poet
* Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910, United States), nv. & col.
* Annabel Davis-Goff (b. 1942, Ireland/United States), nv., screenwriter & academic
* Vilborg Davíðsdóttir (b. 1965, Iceland), wr.
* Hadiya Davletshina (1905–1954, Russia/Soviet Union), poet & pw.
* Mary Davys (c. 1674–1732, Ireland), nv. & pw.
* Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839, England), wr. on religion & child care
* Abha Dawesar (b. 1974, India), nv. & artist
* Pieretta Dawn (b. 1994, Thailand), wr. in English
* Laura Day (b. 1959, United States), self-help wr.
* Sarah Day (b. 1958, England/Australia), poet
* Suzanne R. Day (1876–1964, Ireland), nv. & pw.
* Tamasin Day-Lewis (b. 1953, England), cookery wr. & TV chef
* Jean D'Costa (b. 1937, Jamaica), ch. wr. & linguist
* Shobhaa De (b. 1947, India), col. & nv.
* Janette Deacon (b. 1939, South Africa), archaeologist in English
* Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972, Australia), nv., poet & actor
* Louise Dean (b. 1970, England)
* Pamela Dean (b. 1953, United States), nv.
* Kathryn Deans (living, Australia), ch. wr.
* Alice Dease (1874–1949, Ireland), wr. & folklorist
* Charlotte Dease (1873–1953, Ireland), prayer collector & hagiographer
* Djamila Debèche (1926–2010, Algeria/France), nv. & es.
* Nicole de Buron (1929–2019, France), wr.
* Denise Deegan (b. 1966, Ireland), screenwriter & fiction wr.
* Teresa Deevy (1894–1963, Ireland), pw. & fiction wr.
* Charlotte Burgis DeForest (1879–1973, United States), wr.
* Régine Deforges (1935–2014, France), nv. & es.
* Ellen DeGeneres (b. 1958, United States), wr. & comedian
* Sadia Dehlvi (1957–2020, India), activist, wr. & col.
* Sabine Deitmer (1947–2020, Germany), crime wr.
* Draga Dejanović (1840–1871, Serbia), poet
* Aagje Deken (1701–1804, Netherlands), poet & correspondent
* E. M. Delafield (1890–1943, England), nv. & mem.
* Lucy Delaney (c. 1830–c. 1890, United States), mem.
* Mary Delany (1700–1788, England), correspondent & Bluestocking
* Alix Delaporte (b. 1969, France), screenwriter & film director
* Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874–1945, France), poet, nv. & col.
* Elizabeth Delaval (c.1648–1717), British memoirist
* Cella Delavrancea (1887–1991, Romania), fiction wr, mem. & musician
* Florence Delay (b. 1941, France), academic & actor
* Grazia Deledda (1871–1936, Italy), nv. & poet; 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature
* Yanette Delétang-Tardif (1902–1976, France), poet, translator & nv.
* Nieves Delgado (b. 1968, Spain), nv.
* Susy Delgado (b. 1949, Paraguay), poet & wr. in Spanish & Guarani
* Sahar Delijani (b. 1983, Iran/Persia), nv.
* Ella Cara Deloria (1888–1971, United States), ethnographer, historian & nv.
* Jeanine Delpech (1905–1992, France), journalist, translator & nv.
* Penelope Delta (1874–1941, Greece), ch. wr. & nv.
* Gabriëlle Demedts (1909–2002, Belgium), poet in Flemish
* Rita Demeester (1946–1993), Belgium), poet & wr. in Flemish
* Esther Dendel (1910–2002), American non-fiction writer
* Radka Denemarková (b. 1968, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), nv. & screenplay wr.
* Zsófia Dénes (1885–1987, Hungary), critic & biographer
* Irina Denezhkina (b. 1981, Soviet Union/Russia), fiction wr.
* Marina Denikina (1919–2005, Russia/France), political historian
* Sylvie Denis (b. 1963, France), science fiction wr.
* Yvonne Denis Rosario (b. 1967, Puerto Rico), storyteller, poet, professor
* Nicole Dennis-Benn (b. 1982, Jamaica), nv. & story wr.
* Márcia Denser (b. 1949, Brazil), wr. & academic
* Laurence Deonna (b. 1937, Switzerland), political wr. in French
* Maria Deraismes (1828–1894, France), feminist wr.
* Raghida Dergham (b. 1953, Lebanon/United States), col.
* Enid Derham (1882–1941, Australia), poet
* Regina Derieva (1949–2013, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & wr.
* Maria Dermoût (1888–1962, Netherlands), nv.
* Jeanne Deroin (1805–1894, France), political wr.
* Sophie Deroisin (1909–1994, Belgium), nv. in French
* Toi Derricotte (b. 1941, United States), poet
* Suat Derviş (1904 or 1905–1972, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv. & activist
* Dominika Dery (b. 1975, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), poet & mem.
* Anita Desai (b. 1937, India), nv.
* Kamal Desai (1928–2011, India), nv.
* Kiran Desai (b. 1971, India), nv.
* Dominique Desanti (1920–2011, France), nv., biographer & col.
* Agnès Desarthe (b. 1966, France), nv. & ch. wr.
* Maryline Desbiolles (b. 1959, France), wr.
* Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859, France), poet
* Anne Desclos, 1907–1998, France), col. & nv.
* Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694, France), poet
* Gauri Deshpande (1942–2003, India), fiction wr. & poet
* Shashi Deshpande (b. 1938, India), nv.
* Sunita Deshpande (1926–2009, India), wr.
* Roxane Desjardins (born 1991), Canada), wr.
* Marie-Anne Desmarest (1904–1973, France), nv.
* Pip Desmond (living, New Zealand), social wr.
* Virginie Despentes (b. 1969, France), nv.
* Marie Desplechin (b. 1959, France), fiction & ch. wr.
* Madeleine Desroseaux (1873–1939, France), poet & nv.
* Victoria de Stefano (1940–2023, Italy/Venezuela), nv. & es.
* Jessica Dettmann (living, Australia), nv.
* Babette Deutsch (1895–1982, United States), poet, critic, & nv.
* Jean Devanny (1894–1962, Australia), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Alexis De Veaux (b. 1948, United States), wr. & illustrator
* Mary Deverell (1731–1805, England), religious wr. & poet
* Ashapoorna Devi (1909–1995, India), nv. & poet
* Leela Devi (1932–1998, India), wr. & educator
* Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016, India), nv. & wr.
* Maitreyi Devi (1914–1990, India), poet & nv.
* M. K. Binodini Devi (1922–2011, India), fiction wr. & pw.
* Nalini Bala Devi (1898–1977, India), poet & writer
* Nirupama Devi (1883–1951, India), fiction wr.
* Vimala Devi (b. 1932, Goa/Spain),
* Martina Devlin (living, Ireland), nv. & col.
* Polly Devlin (b. 1944, wr. & broadcaster
* Caroline Dexter (1819–1884, England/Australia), feminist
* Leena Dhingra (living, India/England), wr. & actor
* Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (b. 1954, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Christine D'haen (1923–2009), wr. & poet in French
* Dhuoda (c. 803–c. 843, France), moralist in Latin; Liber Manualis

### Di–Dy

* Ndèye Coumba Mbengue Diakhaté (1924–2001, Senegal), poet & educator
* Nafissatou Niang Diallo (1941–1982, Senegal), social wr. & mem.
* Aïssatou Diamanka-Besland (b. 1972, Senegal), nv. & lyricist
* Anita Diamant (b. 1951, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Máirín Diamond (b. 1957, Ireland), poet
* Olga Xirinacs Díaz (b. 1936, Spain), wr. & musician
* Marta Yolanda Díaz-Durán (b. 1968, Guatemala), academic
* Paloma Díaz-Mas (b. 1954, Spain), nv. & pw.
* Juana Dib (1924–2015, Argentina) poet, journalist, teacher
* Kate DiCamillo (b. 1964, United States), ch. wr.
* Adelia Di Carlo (1883–1965, Argentina), wr., chronicler, founder
* Monica Dickens (1915–1992, England), nv. & mem.
* Emily Dickinson (1830–1886, United States), poet
* Susan E. Dickinson (1842–1915, United States), correspondent
* Joan Didion (1934–2021, United States), col., es. & nv.
* Maria Teresa Cruz San Diego (living, Philippines), nv. in Tagalog
* Alice Mangold Diehl (1844–1912, England), nv. & musician
* Mame Younousse Dieng (1939–2016, Senegal), nv. & poet
* Carole Dieschbourg (b. 1977, Luxembourg), writer & politician
* Florence Carpenter Dieudonné (1850–1927, United States), fiction wr.
* Jane Dieulafoy (1851–1916, France), archaeologist & nv.
* Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919, Colombia), historian, translator, genealogist
* Annie Le Porte Diggs (1853–1916, Canada/Newfoundland), poet & wr.
* Emilia Dilke (1840–1904, England), social wr. & art critic
* Annie Dillard (b. 1945, United States), non-f. wr., poet & nv.
* Eilís Dillon (1920–1994, Ireland), nv. & YA wr.
* Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935, Wales), nv.
* Ophelia Dimalanta (1932–2010, Philippines), poet, wr. & teacher
* Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971, North Macedonia/Slovenia), poet, nv. & translator
* Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945, Serbia), fiction wr. & poet
* Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003, Belgium), poet & politician
* Kristin Dimitrova (b. 1963, Bulgaria), wr. & poet
* Kiki Dimoula (1931–2020, Greece), poet
* Theodora Dimova (b. 1960, Bulgaria), nv. & pw.
* Isak Dinesen (1885–1962, Denmark), nv.; Out of Africa
* Ding Ling (丁玲, 1904–1986, China), nv.
* Güzin Dino (1910–2013, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/France), scholar & political wr.
* Fatou Diome (b. 1968, Senegal), nv.
* Nafissatou Dia Diouf (b. 1973, Senegal), poet & fiction wr.
* Farida Diouri (1953–2004, Morocco), nv. in French
* Kelly DiPucchio (b. 1967, United States), ch. wr.
* Zora Dirnbach (1929–2019, Croatia), journalist & wr.
* Jenny Diski (1947–2016, England), wr.
* Clotilde Dissard (1873–1919, France), journalist, feminist
* Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976, Denmark), poet, nv. & autobiographer
* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (b. 1956, India/United States), poet & fiction wr.
* Margaret A. Dix (b. 1939, Channel Islands/Guatemala), botanist
* Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905, Scotland), travel, war & fiction wr.
* Varsha Dixit (living, India/United States), nv.
* Isobel Dixon (b. 1969, South Africa), poet in English
* Négar Djavadi (b. 1969, Iran/Persia/France), nv. & screenwriter
* Assia Djebar (1936–2015, Algeria), nv. & filmmaker
* Rabia Djelti (b. 1954, Algeria), poet, nv. & educator
* Elena Djionat (1888 – post-1936, Romania), political wr. & activist
* Anastasia Dmitruk (b. 1991, Ukraine), poet
* Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947, Russia/Soviet Union), fiction wr.
* Gillian Dobbie (living, New Zealand), computer scientist
* Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. ca. 1877–1917, France), nv., ss. wr., juvenile wr. & non-f. wr.
* Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012, Australia), poet
* Anna Bowman Dodd (1858–1929, United States), wr.
* Lynley Dodd (b. 1941, New Zealand), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905, United States), ch. wr.; Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
* Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd (1813–1878, United States), poet
* Mary Diana Dods (David Lyndsay, 1790–1830, Scotland), fiction wr.
* Anna Dodsworth (c. 1740–1801, Britain), poet
* Thea Doelwijt (b. 1938, Suriname), fiction & ch. wr. & pw.
* Harriet Doerr (1910–2002, United States), nv.
* Mary Crow Dog (1954–2013, United States), wr. & activist
* Brenda DoHarris (living, Guyana), poet
* Ann Doherty (c. 1786 – c. 1831–1832, England), nv. & pw.
* Berlie Doherty (b. 1943, England), nv., poet & ch. wr.
* Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century, England), Quaker pamphleteer
* Veronika Dolina (b. 1956, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & songwriter
* Elvira Dolinar (1870–1961, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Yugoslavia), col. in Slovenian
* Emma Dolujanoff (1922–2013, Mexico), wr.
* Janina Domanska (1913–1995, Poland/United States), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Alcina Lubitch Domecq (b. 1953, Guatemala/Israel), fiction wr.
* Maria Doménech (1877–1954, Spain), nv., poet & pw.
* Hilde Domin (1909–2006, Germany), poet
* Anni Domingo (b. 1950s, England), nv., poet & pw
* Delia Domínguez (1931–2022, Chile), poet
* María Domínguez (1882–1936, Spain), poet & politician
* María Magdalena Domínguez (1922–2021, Spain), poet
* Lady Margaret Domville (1840–1929, Ireland), religious wr.
* Robyn Donald (b. 1940, New Zealand), nv.
* Elvira Dones (b. 1960, Albania/Switzerland), nv. & screenwriter
* Marion Dönhoff (1909–2002), col.
* Maite Dono (b. 1969, Spain), poet & songwriter
* Emma Donoghue (b. 1969, Ireland/Canada/Newfoundland), pw., nv. & literary historian
* Darya Dontsova (b. 1952, Soviet Union/Russia), fiction & scriptwriter
* Compiuta Donzella (fl. late 13th century, Italy), poet
* Maria Doolaeghe (1803–1884, Belgium), wr. in Flemish
* Aoife Dooley (b. 1991, Ireland), wr. & illustrator
* Robyn Doolittle (b. 1984, Canada/Newfoundland), col.
* Carolina Marcial Dorado (1889–1941, Spain/United States), textbook wr.
* Mary Dorcey (b. 1950, Ireland), poet & fiction wr.
* Mara Đorđević-Malagurski (1894–1971, Serbia), wr. & ethnologist
* Geneviève Dormann (1933–2015, France), fiction wr. & col.
* Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018, Netherlands), fiction wr. & feminist
* Mathilda d'Orozco (Mathilda Montgomery-Cederhjelm; 1796–1863, Italy/Sweden), salonnière, poet & wr.
* Doris Dörrie (b. 1955, Germany), fiction & ch. wr. & critic
* Anna Dostoevskaya (1846–1918, Russia), mem. & philatelist
* Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926, Russia/Italy), mem.
* Sarah Doudney (1841–1926, England), ch. wr. & poet
* Debbie Dougherty (fl 1880s, USA), academic, non-fiction wr.
* Ellen Douglas (1921–2012, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Mona Douglas (1898–1987, Isle of Man), poet & folklorist
* Myra Douglas (1844–?, United States), wr., poet
* O. Douglas (1877–1948, Scotland), nv.
* Sara Douglass (1957–2011, Australia), fantasy nv.
* Maro Douka (b. 1947, Gk), nv.
* Teresa Dovalpage (b. 1966, Cuba/United States), nv.
* Nah Dove (b. 1940s, UK), non-f. wr.
* Rita Dove (b. 1952, United States), poet
* Ceridwen Dovey (b. 1980, South Africa/Australia), nv.
* Beatrice von Dovsky (1866–1923, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet, librettist & actor
* Unity Dow (b. 1959, Botswana), activist & nv.
* Mary Frances Dowdall (1876–1939, England), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882–1961, Iran/Persia), correspondent
* Finuala Dowling (b. 1962, South Africa), poet & nv. in English
* Ellen Mary Patrick Downing (1828–1969, Ireland), poet & nun
* Mary Downing (c. 1815–1881, Ireland/England), poet
* Margaret Drabble (b. 1939, England), nv. & biographer
* Emmy Drachmann (1854–1928, Denmark), nv. & mem.
* Gusta Dawidson Draenger (1917–1943, Poland), diarist & Hc. victim
* Rajna Dragićević (living, Serbia), lexicographer & academic
* Tonke Dragt (b. 1930, Netherlands), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Judith Drake (late 17th century, England), feminist es.
* Slavenka Drakulić (b. 1949, Yugoslavia/Croatia), nv. & es.
* Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894, England), religious wr. & biographer
* Camille Drevet (1881–1969, France), non-f. wr.
* Catharine Drew (1832–1910, Ireland/England), nv. & col.
* Ingeborg Drewitz (1923–1986, Germany), pw. & nv.
* Paola Drigo (1876–1938, Italy), fiction wr.
* Daša Drndić (1946–2018, Yugoslavia/Croatia), nv. & pw.
* Edwige-Renée Dro (living, Ivory Coast), wr. & activist
* Celia Dropkin (1887–1956, Belarus/United States), poet in Yiddish
* Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848, Germany), poet
* Joan Druett (b. 1939, New Zealand), nv. & historian
* Alison Edith Hilda Drummond (1903–1984, New Zealand), historian & farmer
* Ree Drummond (b. 1969, United States), wr. & food wr.
* Yulia Drunina (1924–1991, Soviet Union), poet & fiction wr.
* Anna Harriett Drury (1824–1912, England), poet & nv.
* Helene von Druskowitz (1856–1918, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw., critic & poet
* Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695/1698–1765, Poland), poet
* Svetlana Druzhinina (b. 1935, Soviet Union/Russia), screenwriter & actor
* Nora Dryhurst (1856–1930, Ireland/England), wr. & translator
* Duan Shuqing (端淑卿, c. 1510 – c. 1600, China), poet
* Caitilin Dubh (fl. c. 1624, Ireland), poet
* Caroline Dubois (b. 1960, France), poet
* Dorothea Du Bois (1728–1774, Ireland), poet, autobiographer & pw.
* Ursula Dubosarsky (b. 1961, Australia), ch. & YA fiction & non-f. wr.
* Louis Dubrau (1904–1997, Belgium), fiction wr. & poet in French
* Charlotte Dubreuil (b. 1940, France), nv. & filmmaker
* Marilyn Duckworth (b. 1935, New Zealand), fiction wr. & poet
* Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944, England), poet, nv., es., literary critic & translator
* Diane Ducret (B), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Tessa Duder (b. 1940, New Zealand), YA, fiction & non-f. wr. & pw.
* María Dueñas (b. 1964, Spain), nv.
* Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869, England/Egypt), history wr. & Arabist
* Bella Duffy (1849–1926, Ireland/Italy), writer
* Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955, Scotland), poet & pw.; first female & Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
* Catherine Dufour (b. 1966, France), science fiction & fantasy nv.
* Eileen Duggan (1894–1972, New Zealand), poet & col.
* Kate Duignan (b. 1974, New Zealand), fiction wr. & educator
* Yolanda Vargas Dulché (1926–1999, Mexico), cartoon wr.
* Nurduran Duman (b. 1974, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), poet & pw.
* Firoozeh Dumas (b. 1965, Iran/Persia/United States), mem. & nv.
* Bucura Dumbravă (1868–1926, Romania), nv. & theosophist
* Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga (1920–2006, Romania), political wr.
* Marilyn Dumont (b. 1955, Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Sarah Dunant (b. 1950, England), nv.
* Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987, Ukraine/United States), philosopher
* Andrea Dunbar (1961–1990, England), pw.
* Lois Duncan (1934–2016, United States), YA wr.
* Susan Duncan (1951–2024, Australia), mem. & nv.
* Elaine Dundy (1931–2008, United States), col., nv. & biographer
* Camille Dungy (b. 1972, United States), poet & professor
* Mabel Dunham (1881–1957, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Kinga Dunin (b. 1954, Poland), nv. & sociologist
* Clare B. Dunkle (b. 1964, United States), ch. fantasy wr. & librarian
* Gloria Dünkler (b. 1977, Chile), poet & folklorist
* Nell Dunn (b. 1936, UK), pw. & screenwriter
* Katherine Dunn (1945–2016, United States), nv., col. & poet
* Rachel Blau DuPlessis (b. 1941, United States), poet, es. & scholar
* Maria José Dupré (1905–1984, Brazil), nv.
* Mary Durack (1913–1994, Australia), nv. & ch. wr.
* Ariel Durant (1898–1981, Ukraine/United States), social philosopher & mem.
* Francesca Duranti (b. 1935, Italy), fiction wr.
* Claire de Duras (1777–1828, France), nv.
* Marguerite Duras (1914–1996, France), nv., pw. & screenwriter
* Bohdana Durda (b. 1940, Ukraine), wr., poet & song wr.
* Vanessa Duriès (1972–1993, France), nv.
* Jessica Durlacher (b. 1961, Netherlands), critic & nv.
* Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović (b. 1953, Serbia), nv.
* Tehmina Durrani (b. 1953, Pakistan), wr. & activist
* Marie Dušková (1903–1968, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), poet
* Nirupama Dutt (b. 1955, India), poet
* Toru Dutt (1856–1877, India/England), poet
* Yvette Duval (1931–2006, Morocco/France), historian
* Karen Duve (b. 1961, Germany), fiction wr.
* Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004, United States), poet
* Gergina Dvoretzka (living, Belgium), poet & col.
* Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko (b. 1968 & 1945–2022, Ukraine/United States), novelists
* Xenia Dyakonova (b. 1985, Russia), poet, translator
* Wanda Dynowska (1888–1971, Poland), theosophist & political wr.
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## E
### Ea–Em

* Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856, United States), wr. & poet
* Marion Eames (1921–2007, Wales), nv. & translator
* Mary Tracy Earle (1864–1955, United States), wr.
* Beverley East (b. 1953, Jamaica), wr.
* Alice Eather (1988/1989–2017, Australia), poet & environmentalist
* Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far; 1865–1914, Chile/Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Winnifred Eaton (Watanna Onoto; 1875–1954, Chile/Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–2005, France), es. & nv.
* Shirin Ebadi (b. 1947, Iran/Persia), activist; Nobel Peace Prize 2003
* Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904, Switzerland/Algeria), political wr. in French
* Margareta Ebner (1291–1351, Germany), diarist & mystic
* Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv.
* Charlotte O'Conor Eccles (1860–1911, Ireland), nv. & translator
* Fadela Echebbi (b. 1946, Tunisia), poet
* Robyn Eckersley (b. 1958, Australia), political theorist
* Elaine Howard Ecklund (living, United States), academic
* Bertha Eckstein-Diener (Sir Galahad, 1874–1948, Austria/Austria-Hungary), historian & travel wr.
* Nydia Ecury (1926–2012, Curaçao), poet & translator
* Leigh Eddings (1939–2007, United States), fantasy nv.
* Reni Eddo-Lodge (b. 1989, England), col. & wr.
* Inger Edelfeldt (b. 1956, Sweden), fiction & ch. wr. & illustrator
* Aida Edemariam (fl. 2014–, Ethiopia/Canada/Newfoundland), col. & mem.
* Dorothy Eden (1912–1982, New Zealand/England), fiction wr.
* Emily Eden (1797–1869, England), nv. & poet
* Arabella Edge (fl. 2000–, England/Australia), fiction wr.
* Zee Edgell (1940–2020, Belize), nv.
* Frances Anne Edgeworth (1769–1865, Ireland), mem. & botanical artist
* Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849, England/Ireland), nv.; Castle Rackrent
* May Edginton (1883–1957, England), nv.
* Lauris Edmond (1924–2000, New Zealand), poet & fiction wr.
* Harriet Edquist (fl. 1989–, Australia), architectural historian
* Esi Edugyan (b. 1978, Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & wr.
* Summer Edward (b. 1986, Trinidad), wr. & activist
* Amelia Edwards (1831–1892, England), fiction wr. & poet
* Annie Edwards (c. 1830–1896, England), nv.
* Fanny Winifred Edwards (1876–1959, Wales), ch. wr. & teacher
* Ruth Dudley Edwards (b. 1944, Ireland), historian, biographer & crime wr.
* Yvvette Edwards (fl. 2011–, England), nv.
* Zena Edwards (b. 1960s, England), poet
* Françoise Ega (1920–1976, Martinique), nv.
* Jennifer Egan (b. 1962, United States); fiction wr.
* Susanna Eger (1640–1713, Germany), cookery wr.
* Egeria (Aetheria) (fl. AD 381–384, Algeria), pilgrim & correspondent in Latin
* George Egerton (1859–1945, Ireland/England), fiction wr.
* Helen Merrill Egerton (1866–1951, Canada), poet, non-f. wr.
* Elizabeth Eggleston (1934–1976, Australia), wr., activist & lawyer
* Elsebeth Egholm (b. 1960, Denmark), crime wr.
* Elen Egryn (Elin Evans, 1807–1876, Wales), poet
* María Egual (1655–1735, Spain), poet & pw.
* Alicia Eguren (1924–1977, Argentina), poet & es.
* Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022, United States), feminist & activist
* Marianne Ehrenström (1773–1867, Sweden), wr.
* Marianne Ehrmann (1755–1795, Switzerland), nv. & publicist in German
* Adelaïde Ehrnrooth (1815–1905, Finland), feminist & wr. in Swedish
* Tamara Eidelman (living, Soviet Union/Russia), historian & educator
* Eiki Eiki (影木栄貴, b. 1971, Japan), manga creator
* Charlotte Eilersgaard (1858–1922, Denmark), fiction wr. & pw.
* Lena Einhorn (b. 1954, Sweden), mem., pw. & screenwriter
* Paula Einöder (b. 1974, Uruguay), poet & wr.
* Oddný Eir (b. 1972, Iceland), nv.
* Kerstin Ekman (b. 1933, Sweden), fiction wr.
* Margareta Ekström (1930–2021, Sweden), poet, nv. & ch. wr.
* Elaine Eksvärd (b. 1981, Sweden), non-f. wr.
* Nana Ekvtimishvili (b. 1978, Georgia (Caucasus)), wr. & film director
* Naima El Bezaz (1974–2020, Morocco/Netherlands), wr.
* Roza Eldarova (1923–2021, Soviet Union/Russia), wr. & politician
* Anne Elder (1918–1976, Australia), poet & dancer
* Olivia Elder (1735–1780, Ireland), poet
* Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956, Australia), nv., critic & historian
* Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC, Ancient Greece), erotic poet
* Ada María Elflein (1880–1919, Argentina), poet, col. & translator
* Menna Elfyn (b. 1952, Wales), poet, pw. & editor
* Laila el-Haddad (b. 1978, Palestine/United States), wr. on Palestine & food
* Safia Elhillo (b. 1990, Sudan/United States), poet
* Anilú Elías (b. 1937, Mexico), scholar & activist
* María Luisa Elío (1926–2009, Spain/Mexico), screenwriter
* George Eliot (Marian Evans, 1819–1880, England), nv. & poet; Middlemarch
* Elisabeth of Wied (1843–1916, Romania), Queen Consort & poet
* Caroline Elkins (b. 1969, United States), prof. & non-f. wr.
* Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877, United States), wr. & poet
* Bina Sarkar Ellias (b. 1949, India), poet, wr. & editor
* Anne Elliot (1856–1941, England), nv.
* Lady Charlotte Elliot (1839–1880, Scotland), poet
* E. S. Elliott (1836–1897, England), poet, hymn wr., nv., ed.
* Janice Elliott (1931–1995, England), fiction & ch. wr.
* Marianne Elliott (living, Ireland/England), historian
* Lucy Ellmann (b. 1956, United States/Scotland), nv.
* Alice Thomas Ellis (Anna Haycraft, 1932–3005, England), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Ellen Elizabeth Ellis (1829–1895, England/New Zealand), nv. & activist
* Keisha Lynne Ellis (fl. 2009 onward, Bahamas), political scientist
* Lucy Ellmann (b. 1956, United States/Scotland), nv.
* Nawal el-Saadawi (1931–2021, Egypt), feminist & fiction wr.
* Barbara Else (b. 1947, New Zealand), fiction & ch. wr. & pw.
* Gisela Elsner (1939–1992, Germany), nv.
* Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756, England), feminist & translator
* Diamela Eltit (b. 1949, Chile), wr. & academic
* Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949, United States), poet
* Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017, Nigeria), nv.
* Claudia Emerson (1957–2014, United States), poet & academic
* Ellen Russell Emerson (1837–1907, United States), wr. & ethnologist
* Akwaeke Emezi (b. 1987, Nigeria), fiction wr.
* Lelia Dromgold Emig (1872–1957, United States), genealogist & non-f. wr.
* Carol Emshwiller (1921–2019, United States), fiction wr.
* Angella Emurwon (living, Uganda), pw.

### En–Ez

* Amanda Enayati (living, Iran/Persia/United States), health wr.
* Fumiko Enchi (円地文子, 1905–1986, Japan), pw. & fiction wr.
* María Dolores Pérez Enciso (1908–1949, Spain/Mexico), social wr.
* Alberthiene Endah (living, Indonesia), biographer & nv.
* Chuah Guat Eng (蔡月英, b. 1943, Malaysia), fiction wr. in English
* Marian Engel (1933–1985, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634–1716, Norway), poet & hymn wr.
* Helene von Engelhardt (1850–1910, Germany), poet, wr. & linguist
* Edith Mary England (1899–1979/1981, Australia), nv. & poet
* Isobel English (1920–1994, England), nv.
* Françoise Enguehard (b. 1957, Canada/Newfoundland), prose wr. in French
* Enheduanna (2285–2250 BC, Ancient Sumeria), poet & royal priestess
* Maki Enjōji (円城寺マキ, living, Japan), manga creator
* Nariko Enomoto (榎本ナリコ, b. 1967, Japan), manga creator
* Anna Enquist (b. 1945, Netherlands), poet & nv.
* Anne Enright (b. 1962, Ireland), fiction writer
* Kalilah Enríquez (b. 1983, Belize/Jamaica), col. & poet
* Mariana Enríquez (b. 1973, Algeria), fiction wr. & col.
* Anne Enright (b. 1962, Ireland), fiction wr. & es.
* José Ensch (1942–2008, Luxembourg), poet
* Riemke Ensing (b. 1939, Netherlands/New Zealand), poet & academic
* Camelia Entekhabifard (b. 1973, Iran/Persia/United States), wr.
* Fotini Epanomitis (b. 1969, Australia), nv.
* Nora Ephron (1941–2012, United States), nv. & screenwriter
* Pamphile of Epidaurus (1st century AD, Ancient Greece), historian
* Muzi Epifani (1935–1984, Italy), nv., poet & pw.
* Helen Epstein (b. 1947, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/United States), biographer & mem.
* Noura Erakat (b. 1980, United States), wr. on Palestine
* Ruth Erat (b. 1951, Switzerland), fiction wr. in German
* Leyla Erbil (1931–2013, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), wr.
* Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), wr. and activist
* Louise Erdrich (b. 1954, United States), nv., poet & ch. wr.
* Rica Erickson (1908–2009, Australia), botany & history wr.
* Helena Eriksson (b. 1962, Sweden), poet
* Erinna (Ἤριννα, fl. c. 600 BC, Ancient Greece), poet
* Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria (1868–1951, Georgia (Caucasus)), nv.
* Dominika Eristavi (1864–1929, Georgia (Caucasus)), poet & prose wr.
* Annie Ernaux (b. 1940, France), nv. & autobiographer
* Maria Ernestam (b. 1959, Sweden), fiction wr.
* Annette Mbaye d'Erneville (b. 1926, Senegal), poet & ch. wr.
* Henrica van Erp (c. 1480–1548, Netherlands), chronicler & abbess
* Jenny Erpenbeck (b. 1967, Germany), fiction wr. and pw.
* María de los Ángeles Errisúriz (b. 1966, Mexico), wr. on education
* Kelcey Ervick (fl. 2013, USA), wr., creative writing
* Tina Escaja (b. 1965, Spain/United States), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Ximena Escalante (b. 1964, Mexico), pw.
* Alicia Escardó (b. 1963, Uruguay), fiction wr. & educator
* Nataly von Eschstruth (1860–1939, Germany), fiction wr. and pw.
* Edith Escombe (1866–1950, England), fiction wr. & es.
* Gloria Escomel (b. 1941, Uruguay/Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Margaret Escott (1908–1977, New Zealand), nv., poet & educator
* Rosemary Esehagu (b. 1981, Nigeria/United States), nv.
* Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen (1899–1979, Mexico), linguist & poet
* Catharine H. Esling (1812–1897, United States), poet, wr., hymn wr.
* Erminda Rentoul Esler (c. 1852–1924, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Florbela Espanca (1894–1930, Portugal), poet
* Teresa Espasa (living, Spain), poet, es. & professor
* Kristin Espinasse (b. 1968, United States), wr.
* Ileana Espinel (1933–2001, Ecuador), poet & wr.
* Ramabai Espinet (b. 1948, Trinidad), poet, nv. & critic
* Laura Esquivel (b. 1950, Mexico), nv.
* Sofia Ester (b. 1978, Portugal), YA wr.
* Elsa d'Esterre-Keeling (1857–1935, Ireland), nv. & educator
* Eleanor Estes (1906–1988, United States), ch. wr.
* Clarissa Pinkola Estés (b. 1945, United States), poet
* Gisèle d'Estoc (1845–1894, France), non-f. wr.
* Jenny Estrada (b. 1940, Ecuador), social wr.
* Ana Estrella Santos (b. 20th-c, Ecuador), non-f. wr., ss. wr.
* Makiko Esumi (江角マキコ, b. 1966, Japan), non-f. wr. & lyricist
* Eloísa García Etchegoyhen (1921–1996, Uruguay), education wr.
* Claire Etcherelli (b. 1934, France), nv.
* Gabriela Etcheverry (b. 1946, Chile/Canada/Newfoundland), wr. & critic
* Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941, Iran/Persia), poet
* Mansoureh Ettehadieh (living, Iran/Persia), historian
* Lucía Etxebarría (b. 1966, Spain), biographer & nv.
* Luisa Etxenike (b. 1957, Spain), fiction wr., pw. & poet
* Cecilia Eudave (b. 1968, Mexico), fiction wr.
* Aelia Eudocia (c. 401–460, Byzantium), religious wr. in Greek
* Damiana Eugenio (1921–2014, Philippines), wr. & academic
* Eun Mihee (은미희, b. 1960, Korea), nv., col. & academic
* Jang Eun-jin (장은진, b. 1976, Korea), wr.
* Lolita Euson (1914–1994, Sint Eustatius), poet
* Janet Evanovich (b. 1943, United States), nv.
* Anne Evans (1820–1870, England), poet & composer
* Augusta Jane Evans (1835–1909, United States), nv.
* Christine Evans (b. 1943, Wales), poet
* Diana Evans (b. c. 1971, England), nv., col. & critic
* Mari Evans (1923–2017, United States), poet, pw. & ch. wr.
* Matilda Jane Evans (1827–1886, Australia), nv.
* Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell (1836–1922, United States), fiction wr.
* Bernardine Evaristo (b. 1959, England), wr.
* Conceição Evaristo (b. 1946, Brazil), social wr.
* Marjorie Evasco (b. 1953, Philippines), poet
* Maria Louise Eve (1842–1900, United States), poet
* Elizabeth Hawley Everett (1857–1940, United States), editor, wr
* Zdravka Evtimova (b. 1959, Bulgaria), fiction wr.
* Barbara Ewing (b. 1939, New Zealand/England), nv., actor & pw.
* Emma Pike Ewing (1838–1917, United States), wr. & educator
* Eve Ewing (b. 1986, United States), wr., poet & artist
* Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885, England), ch. wr.
* Catherine Exley (1779–1857, England), non-f. wr.
* Elisabeth Eybers (1915–2007, South Africa), poet in Afrikaans
* Leonora Eyles (1889–1960, England), feminist wr. & nv.
* Regīna Ezera (1930–2002, Latvia), nv.
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## F
### Fa–Fl

* Camilla Faà (c. 1599–1662, Italy), autobiographer & nun
* Edda Fabbri (b. 1949, Uruguay), fiction wr.
* Anne Faber (living, Luxembourg/England), cookery wr.
* Michèle Fabien (1945–1999, Belgium), wr. & pw. in French
* Mary Fabilli (1914–2011, United States), poet & illustrator
* Kinga Fabó (1953–2021, Hungary), poet & es.
* Paloma Fabrykant (b. 1981, Argentina), non-f. wr. & artist
* Diane Fahey (b. 1945, Australia), poet
* Jacqueline Fahey (b. 1929, New Zealand), mem. & painter
* Diamante Medaglia Faini (1724–1770, Italy), poet & composer
* Elizabeth Fair (1908–1997, England), nv.
* Lidia Falcón (b. 1935, Spain), pw. & es.
* Suzanne Falkiner (b. 1952, Australia), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Aminata Sow Fall (b. 1941, Senegal), nv.
* Khadi Fall (b. 1948, Senegal), nv.
* Kiné Kirama Fall (b. 1934, Senegal), poet
* Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006, Italy), non-f. wr.
* Amber Fallon (b. 1993, United States), horror wr.
* Katie Fallon (b. 1976, United States), es. & non-f. wr.
* Fan Xiaoqing (范小青, b. 1955, China), fiction wr.
* Elena Fanailova (b. 1962, Soviet Union/Russia), poet
* Fang Fang (方方, b. 1955, China), poet & nv.
* Diane Fanning (b. 1950, United States), wr. on crime & nv.
* Teresa González de Fanning (1836–1918, Peru), nv. & col.
* Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680, England), mem.
* Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834, England), poet
* Ursula Fanthorpe (1929–2009, England), poet
* Elena Farago (1878–1954, Romania), poet & ch. wr.
* Najwa Kawar Farah (1923–2015, Palestine/Canada/Newfoundland), fiction & ch. wr. & autobiographer
* Marthe Fare (b. 1985, Togo), nv. & educator
* Rosa Lobato de Faria (1932–2010, Portugal), nv., poet & actor
* Lily Yulianti Farid (b. 1971, Indonesia), fiction wr.
* Beverley Farmer (1941–2018, Australia), fiction wr.
* Hannah Tobey Farmer (1823–1891, United States), wr. & poet
* Nancy Farmer (b. 1941, United States), YA & ch. nv.
* Penelope Farmer (b. 1939, England), ch. nv.; Charlotte Sometimes
* Fadhila El Farouk (b. 1967, Algeria/Lebanon), nv.
* Fiona Farrell (b. 1947, New Zealand), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967, Iran/Persia), poet & film director
* Pooran Farrokhzad (1933–2016, Iran/Persia), poet, pw. & encyclopedist
* Angie Farrow (b. 1951, England/New Zealand), academic & wr. for theater & radio
* Bushra Farrukh (b. 1957, Pakistan), poet
* Leila Farsakh (b. 1967, Palestine/United States), political economist
* Lilian Faschinger (b. 1950, Austria/Austria-Hungary), fiction wr. & poet
* Malika al-Fassi (1919–2007, Morocco), pw. & fiction wr.
* Adélaïde Fassinou (b. 1955, Benin), fiction wr.
* Nazila Fathi (b. 1970, Iran/Persia/Canada/Newfoundland), political mem.
* Altaf Fatima (1927–2018, India/Pakistan), fiction wr.
* Geneviève Fauconnier (1886–1969, France), nv.
* Margaretta Faugères (1771–1801, United States), poet
* Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961, England), nv. & ch. wr.
* Jesse Redmon Fauset (1882–1961, United States), poet, es. & nv.
* Beatrice Faust (1939–2019, Australia), non-f. wr. & activist
* Eliza Fay (1755 or 1756–1816, England/India), correspondent
* Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693, France), nv.
* Samira Fazal (living, Pakistan), screenwriter & pw.
* Carmen Febres-Cordero de Ballén (1829–1893, Ecuador), wr. & poet
* Astrid Stampe Feddersen (1852–1930, Denmark), wr. & activist
* Etta Federn (1883–1951, Austria/Austria-Hungary), wr. & translator
* Elaine Feeney (living, Ireland), nv. & pw.
* Klára Fehér (1919–1996, Hungary), nv. & ch. wr.
* Leslie Feinberg (1949–2014, United States), wr. & activist
* Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019, England), poet, nv. & translator
* Else Feldmann (1884–1942, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw., poet & nv.
* Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746–1830, France), nv., pw. & ch. wr.
* Mary Fels (1863–1953, Germany/United States), wr. & ed.
* Zuo Fen (左芬, c. 255–300, China), poet
* Feng Yuanjun (冯沅君, 1900–1974, China), wr. & scholar
* Edna Ferber (1885–1968, United States), nv. & pw.
* Kate Lee Ferguson (1841–1928, United States), nv., poet & composer
* Nathalie Ferlut (born 1968, France), comic book wr., artist
* Fanny Fern (1811–1872, United States), fiction & ch. wr.
* María Luisa Fernández (1870–1938, Chile), feminist wr. & poet
* Marian Lopez Fernandez-Cao (b. 1964, Spain), art wr. & academic
* Roberta Fernández (living, United States), nv., scholar & critic
* Chitra Fernando (1935–1998, Sri Lanka), ch. wr. & academic
* Vera Ferra-Mikura (1923–1997, Austria/Austria-Hungary), ch. wr.
* Elena Ferrante (b. 1943, Italy), nv.
* María del Carme Ribé i Ferré (1920–1991, Spain), nv. & autobiographer
* Rosario Ferré (1938–2016, United States), nv., poet & biographer
* Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924, Uruguay), poet & educator
* Julia Ferrer (1925–1995, Peru), poet & wr.
* Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier (1782–1854, Scotland), nv.
* Diana Ferrus (b. 1953, South Africa), poet in Afrikaans & English
* Laura Dayton Fessenden (1852–1924, United States), wr.
* Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918, England), nv.
* Tina Fey (b. 1970, United States), screenwriter & autobiographer
* Vera Feyder (b. 1949, Belgium/France), poet & nv.
* Ilia Fibiger (1817–1867, Denmark), pw. & fiction wr.
* Mathilde Fibiger (1830–1872, Denmark), wr. on women's rights
* Dorothea de Ficquelmont (1804–1863, Russia/Austria/Austria-Hungary), diarist in French
* Mrs. E. M. Field (1856–1940, Ireland), nv. & literary critic
* Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (1846–1914, England) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913, England), poets, pw.
* Rachel Field (1894–1942, United States), nv., poet & ch. wr.
* Helen Fielding (b. 1958, England), nv.
* Sarah Fielding (1710–1768, England), nv.
* Jennie Fields (b. 1953, United States), nv.
* Celia Fiennes (1662–1741, England), travel wr.
* Fanny Carrión de Fierro (b. 1936, Ecuador), poet, critic & academic
* Eva Figes (1932–2012, Germany/England), nv., critic & feminist
* N. P. Figgis (1939–2014, Ireland/Wales), archaeologist
* Sia Figiel (b. 1967, Serbia), poet & nv.
* Vera Figner (1852–1942, Russia/Soviet Union), mem. & political biographer
* Trini de Figueroa (1918-1972, Spain), romance nv.
* Margita Figuli (1909–1995, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia), social & ch. wr.
* Amanda Filipacchi (b. 1957, France/United States), nv.
* Lyudmila Filipova (b. 1977, Bulgaria), nv. & col.
* Zlata Filipović (b. 1980, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Ireland), child war diarist
* Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (1761–1836, France), nv.
* Clara Filleul (1822–1878, France), ch. wr. & painter
* Anne Finch (1661–1720, England), poet
* Annie Finch (b. 1956, United States), poet, translator & critic
* Anne Fine (b. 1947, England), wr.
* Manuela Fingueret (1945–2013, Argentina), poet, nv. & es.
* Ida Fink (1921–2011, Poland/Israel), Hc. wr.
* Nikky Finney (b. 1957, United States), poet
* Steinunn Finnsdóttir (c. 1640 – c. 1710, Iceland), poet
* Carmen Firan (b. 1958, Romania/United States), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Caroline Auguste Fischer (1764–1842, Germany), wr. & rights activist
* Margery Fish (1892–1969, England), gardening wr.
* Ann Fisher (1719–1778, England), grammarian
* Carrie Fisher (1956–2016, United States), nv., actor & screenwriter
* Catherine Fisher (b. 1957, Wales), wr. & broadcaster
* Elizabeth Fisher (journalist) (1924–1982) was the US editor of the magazine Aphra
* Lala Fisher (1872–1929, Australia), poet & editor
* M. F. K. Fisher (1908–1992, United States), food wr.
* Wirydianna Fiszerowa (1761–1826, Poland), mem.
* Anna M. Fitch (1840-1904, United States), nv., poet, playwr.
* Fitnat Hanım (died 1780, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), poet
* Sarah Mary Fitton (c. 1796–1874, Ireland), wr. & botanist
* Barbara Fitzgerald (1911–1982, Ireland/England), nv.
* Kitty Fitzgerald (b. 1946, Ireland/England), nv., poet & pw.
* Mary Anne Fitzgerald (living, South Africa/England), political wr.
* Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000, England), nv., poet & biographer
* Theodora FitzGibbon (1916–1991, Ireland), cookery wr.
* Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974, United States), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Becca Fitzpatrick (b. 1979, United States), nv.
* Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905–1990), historian, biographer & critic
* Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (b. 1962, Ireland), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Ellen Fitzsimon (1805–1883, Ireland), poet
* Fannie Flagg (b. 1944, United States), screenwriter & nv.
* Jane Flanders (1940–2001, United States), poet
* Marieluise Fleißer (1901–1974, Germany), pw.
* Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811, Scotland), child diarist & poet
* Kate Fleron (1909–2006, Denmark), wr. & resistance fighter
* Beryl Fletcher (1938–2018, New Zealand), nv.
* Jane Ada Fletcher (1870–1956, Australia), nature & ch. wr.
* Lisa Anne Fletcher (1844–1905, United States), poet, correspondent
* Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (1739–1850, England), religious wr.
* Penelope Fletcher (b. 1988, England), YA & fantasy wr.
* Zénaïde Fleuriot (1829–1890, France), nv.
* Pierrette Fleutiaux (1941–2019, France), fiction wr.
* Lynn Flewelling (b. 1958, United States), nv.
* Lina Flor (1914–1976, Philippines), fiction & scriptwriter
* Leona Florentino (1849–1884, Philippines), poet
* Malva Flores (b. 1961, Mexico), poet, fiction wr. & es.
* Paulina Flores (b. 1988, Chile), fiction wr.
* Nísia Floresta (1810–1885, Brazil/France), poet & feminist
* Angela Flournoy (living, United States), nv.
* Pat Flower (1914–1977, Australia), stage & TV pw. & nv.
* Tui Flower (1925–2017, New Zealand), food wr.
* Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807–1892, Sw.), nv.
* Carol Houlihan Flynn (b. 1945, United States), academic, critic & fiction wr.
* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964, United States), political wr. & activist
* Gillian Flynn (b. 1971, United States), nv. & screenwriter

### Fo–Fu

* Marnie Fogg (living, England), fashion wr.
* Éva Földes (1914–1981, Hungary), wr. & Hc. survivor
* Jolán Földes (1902–1963, Hungary), nv.
* Mária Földes (1925–1976, Romania), pw. in Hungarian and Hc. survivor
* Winifred Foley (1914–2009, England), autobiographer
* Mary Alice Fonda (1837–1897, United States), musician, linguist, wr., critic
* Maria Assumpció Soler i Font (1913–2004, Spain), wr. & col. in Catalan
* Brigitte Fontaine (b. 1939, France), wr. & singer
* Moderata Fonte (1555–1592, Italy), feminist & poet; The Worth of Women
* Pascale Fonteneau (b. 1963, France/Belgium), nv. & wr. in French
* Philippa Foot (1920–2010, England), philosopher
* Donna Foote (b. 1950, United States), non-f. wr.
* Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938, United States), nv.
* Mary Hannay Foott (1846–1918, Australia), poet & editor
* Alaíde Foppa (1914 – c. 1980, Spain), poet
* Curdella Forbes (living, Jamaica), science fiction wr.
* Frances Forbes-Robertson (1866–1956, United Kingdom), nv.
* Esther Forbes (1891–1967, United States), nv. & ch. wr.
* Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724, France), nv. & poet
* Margot Forde (1935–1992, New Zealand), botanist & taxonomist
* Patricia Forde (b. c. 1960, Ireland), ch. wr.
* Honor Ford-Smith (b. 1951, Canada/Newfoundland), pw., scholar & poet
* Meta Forkel-Liebeskind (1765–1853, Germany), academic
* Aminatta Forna (b. 1964, Scotland), wr.
* María Irene Fornés (1930–2018, Cuba/United States), pw.
* Francesca Forrellad (1927–2013, Spain), wr. in Catalan
* Lluïsa Forrellad (1927–2018, Spain), nv. & pw. in Spanish & Catalan
* Anne Marie Forrest (living, Ireland), nv.
* Mabel Forrest (1872–1935, Australia), nv. & poet
* Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975, Scotland), poet & critic
* Ellen Forrester (1823–1883, Ireland), poet
* Viviane Forrester (1825–1913, France), es., nv. & critic
* Olga Forsh (1873–1961, Russia/Soviet Union), novelist, pw. & mem.
* Thelma Forshaw (1923–1995, Australia), fiction wr. & reviewer
* Tua Forsström (b. 1947, Finland), poet in Swedish
* Margaret Forster (1938–2016, England), nv. & biographer
* Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687, England), Quaker polemicist
* Michelanne Forster (b. 1953, New Zealand), pw. & scriptwriter
* Jessie Forsyth (1847/49 – 1937, England/United States/Australia), temperance advocate
* Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971, Germany), nv., poet & es.
* Laudomia Forteguerri (1515–1555, Italy), poet
* Susana Fortes (b. 1959, Spain), nv. & col.
* Elena Fortún (1886–1952, Spain), ch. wr.
* Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth, 1890–1946, Wales), nv. & wr.
* Mary Fortune (c. 1833–1911, Australia), crime wr.
* E. M. Foster (fl. late 18th – early 19th centuries, England), nv.
* Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840, United States), nv.
* Lydia Mary Foster (1867–1943, Ireland), social writer & poet
* Lynn Foster (1914–1985, Australia), pw. & nv.
* Corlia Fourie (b. 1944, South Africa), fiction & ch. wr. in Afrikaans
* Carolina Amor de Fournier (1908–1993, Mexico), biographer & medical wr.
* Dorothy Fowler (living, New Zealand), nv.
* Harriet Putnam Fowler (1842–1901, United States), wr., poet
* Karen Joy Fowler (b. 1950, United States), fiction wr.
* Aileen Fox (1907–2005, England), archaeologist
* Mamita Fox (b. 1943, Curaçao), autobiographer
* Biancamaria Frabotta (1946–2022, Italy), poet & critic
* Esther G. Frame (1840–1920, United States), autobiographer
* Janet Frame (1924–2004, New Zealand), fiction & YA wr. & autobiographer
* Isabel Franc (b. 1955, Spain), fiction wr. & es.
* Marie de France (fl. 12th century, France), poet in Anglo-Norman
* Ruth France (1913–1968, New Zealand), poet & nv.
* Annie Francé-Harrar (1886–1971, Austria/Austria-Hungary), wr. & scientist
* Lorraine Francis (b. 1958, Ireland), ch. wr.
* Louise E. Francis (1869–1932, United States), wr., ed., pub.
* M. E. Francis (1859–1930, Ireland/England), nv.
* Suzanne Francis (b. 1959, England), fantasy wr.
* Julia Franck (b. 1970, Germany), fiction wr. and es.
* Veronica Franco (1546–1591, Italy), poet
* Jocelyne François (b. 1933, France), nv.
* Louise von François (1817–1893, Germany), nv.
* Justine Frangouli-Argyris (b. 1959, Greece), fiction wr. & biographer
* Anne Frank (Anna, 1929–1945, Netherlands), diarist & Hc. victim; The Diary of a Young Girl
* Lone Frank (b. 1966, Denmark), science wr.
* Miles Franklin (1879–1954, Australia), feminist wr.
* Abby Franquemont (b. 1972, United States), wr.
* Rebecca Fransway (b. 1953, United States), wr. & poet
* Agnes Franz (1794–1843, German), writer
* Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998, Germany/Switzerland), psychologist
* Antonia Fraser (b. 1932, England), nv. & biographer
* Bashabi Fraser (b. 1954, India), non-f. and ch. wr., poet, and translator
* Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943, Canada), poet, dr., jour.; nun
* Kirstine Frederiksen (1845–1903, Denmark), educationist & activist
* Marianne Fredriksson (1927–2007, Sweden), nv.
* Lynn Freed (living, South Africa), fiction wr. & es. in English
* Gillian Freeman (1929–2019, England), nv. & pw.
* Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930, United States), fiction wr.
* Celia de Fréine (b. 1948, Ireland), poet, pw. & librettist
* Espido Freire (b. 1974, Spain), nv.
* Raquel Freire (b. 1973, Paraguay), screenwriter, nv. & film director
* Anna Freixas (b. 1946, Spain), wr. & academic
* Laura Freixas (b. 1958, Spain), fiction wr. & col.
* Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1778–1857, England), diarist
* Anne French (b. 1956, New Zealand), poet
* Dawn French (b. 1957, Wales/England), wr. & comedian
* Katy French (1983–2007, Ireland), writer & model
* Lucy Virginia French (1825–1881, United States), wr.
* Marilyn French (1929–2009, United States), feminist wr. & academic
* Tana French (b. 1973, United States/Ireland), nv. & actor
* Mariana Frenk-Westheim (1898–2004, Mexico), poet & Hispanist
* Maud Frère (1923–1979, Belgium), fiction & ch. wr. in French
* Patricia Fresen (b. 1940, South Africa), religious wr. in English
* Yvonne du Fresne (1929–2011, New Zealand), fiction wr. & radio pw.
* Anna Freud (1895–1982, As/England), psychoanalyst
* Milagros Frías (b. 1955, Spain), nv. & critic
* Maikki Friberg (1861–1927, Finland), educator & peace activist
* Betty Friedan (1921–2006, United States), wr., activist & feminist
* Violeta Friedman (1930–2000, Russia/Spain), wr. & Hc. survivor
* Inger Frimansson (b. 1944, Sweden), poet & fiction & ch. wr.
* Barbara Frischmuth (b. 1941, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv., poet & pw.
* Marianne Fritz (1948–2007, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv.
* Anne Froelick (1913–2010, United States), screenwriter & nv.
* Francisca Praguer Fróes (1872–1931, Brazil), health wr. & activist
* Gayleen Froese (b. 1972, Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & songwriter
* Eva Margareta Frölich (1650–1692, Sweden), wr.
* Elena Frolova (b. 1969, Latvia/Russia), songwriter & poet
* Bella Fromm (1890–1972, Germany/United States), wartime journalist
* Katarina Frostenson (b. 1953, Sweden), poet
* Ruth Frow (1922–2008, England), wr. & historian
* Linda Frum (b. 1963, Canada/Newfoundland), wr. & politician
* Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955, England), Quaker social wr.
* Susanna M. D. Fry (1841–1920, United States), wr.
* Agnes Moore Fryberger (1868–1939, United States), music wr.
* Camilla Frydan (1887–1949, Austria/Austria-Hungary), lyricist & musician
* Fu Shanxiang (傅善祥, 1833–1864, China), scholar
* Fu Tianlin (傅天琳, b. 1946, China), poet
* Gloria Fuertes (1917–1998, Spain), poet & ch. wr.
* Lisa Fugard (living, South Africa/United States), fiction wr. & actor
* Sheila Meiring Fugard (b. 1932, England/South Africa), fiction wr. & pw.
* Mihona Fujii (藤井みほな, b. 1974, Japan), manga creator
* Kaori Fujino (藤野可織, b. 1980, Japan), fiction wr.
* Kazuko Fujita (藤田和子, b. 1957, Japan), manga creator
* Cocoa Fujiwara (藤原ここあ, 1983–2015, Japan), manga creator
* Hiro Fujiwara (藤原ヒロ, b. 1981, Japan), manga creator
* Yvonne K. Fulbright (living, Iceland/United States), sexologist
* Anne Fuller (died 1790, Ireland), nv.
* Janice Moore Fuller (b. 1951, United States), poet & pw.
* Claire Fuller (b. 1967, England), nv.
* Alexandra Fuller (b. 1969, Zimbabwe/United States), mem. & nv.
* Margaret Fuller (1810–1850, United States), feminist
* Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946, Australia), feminist poet, fiction wr. & col.
* Alice Fulton (b. 1952, United States), wr. & poet
* Catherine Fulton (1829–1919, England/New Zealand), diarist & philanthropist
* Cornelia Funke (b. 1958, Germany), ch. wr.
* Bilkisu Funtuwa (living, Nigeria), nv.
* Huarui Furen (花蕊夫人, 940–976, China), poet
* Alice Furlong (1866–1946, Ireland), story wr. & poet
* Eva Furnari (b. 1948, Italy/Brazil), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Füruzan (b. 1932, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Felícia Fuster (1921–2012, Spain), poet in Catalan & painter
* Luisa Futoransky (b. 1939, Argentina), poet, nv. & academic
* Top
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## G
### Ga–Gl

* Diana Gabaldon (b. 1952, United States), fiction wr.
* Patrícia Gabancho (1952–2017, Argentina/Spain), wr. in Catalan
* Anneli Ute Gabanyi (b. 1942, Romania/Germany), critic & philologist
* Ekaterine Gabashvili (1851–1938, Georgia (Caucasus)), nv. & feminist
* Dora Gabe (1888–1983, Bulgaria), poet & travel wr.
* Cherubina de Gabriak (1887–1928, Russia/Soviet Union), poet
* Belén Gache (b. 1960, Argentina/Spain), nv. & electronic wr.
* Emma Gad (1852–1921, Denmark), wr. & pw.
* Gertrude Gaffney (?–1959, Ireland), col.
* Maureen Gaffney (b. 1947, Ireland), psychologist
* Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884, United States), wr. & poet
* Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986, Russia/Soviet Union), poet & ethnographer
* Eva Roe Gaggin (1879–1966, United States), ch. wr.
* Marie-Louise Gagneur (1832–1902, France), fiction wr., es. & activist
* Jeannine Hall Gailey (b. 1973, United States), poet & critic
* Abby Gaines (living, New Zealand), nv.
* Sigri Mitra Gaïni (b. 1975, Faroe Islands), poet & educator
* Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000, Spain), fiction wr., es. & screenwriter
* Mary Gaitskill (b. 1954, United States), es. & fiction wr.
* Nora Gal (1912–1991, Russia/Soviet Union), critic & translation theorist
* Ana Galán (b. 1964, Spain/United States), ch. wr. & humorist
* Rhea Galanaki (b. 1947, Greece), fiction wr., es. & poet
* Georgie Starbuck Galbraith (1909–1980, United States), poet
* Rosa Galcerán (1917–2015, Spain), poet & cartoonist
* Ona Galdikaitė (1898–1990, Lithuania/Germany), poet & nun
* Kate Gale (b. 1965, United States), poet & librettist
* Zona Gale (1874–1938, United States), nv. & pw.
* Azucena Galettini (b. 1981, Argentina), wr.
* Erzsébet Galgóczi (1930–1989, Hungary), fiction wr. & pw.
* Adela Galiana (1825 – late 19th/early 20th century, Spain), wr.
* Beatriz Galindo (c. 1465–1534, Sp.), Latinist & educator
* Hermila Galindo (1886–1954, Mexico), political wr.
* María Galindo (b. 1964, Bolivia), psychologist
* Katherine Gallagher (b. 1935, Argentina), poet
* Kathleen Gallagher (b. 1957, New Zealand), pw., poet & nv.
* Margaret Gallagher (living, Ireland/England), gender researcher
* Miriam Gallagher (b. 1940, Ireland), pw.
* Rhian Gallagher (b. 1961, New Zealand), poet
* Tess Gallagher (b. 1943, United States), poet, nv. & pw.
* Fatima Gallaire (1944–2020, Algeria/France), pw. & fiction wr.
* Mavis Gallant (1922–2014, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr., pw. & es. in French
* Sara Gallardo (1931–1988, Argentina), fiction wr.
* Menna Gallie (1919–1990, Wales), nv. & translator
* Karina Galvez (b. 1964, Ecuador), poet
* María Rosa de Gálvez (1768–1806, Spain), poet & pw.
* Jeanne Galzy (1883–1977, France), nv. & biographer
* Joana da Gama (c. 1520–1586, Portugal), nun & wr. on aphorisms
* Veronica Gambara (1485–1550, Italy), poet & politician
* Griselda Gambaro (b. 1928, Argentina), fiction wr., pw. & es.
* Anna Rosina Gambold (1762–1821, United States), missionary & diarist
* Mary Ninde Gamewell (1858–1947, United States), missionary & wr.
* Gangadevi (fl. 14th century, India), poet & princess
* Alisa Ganieva (b. 1985, Russia), fiction wr. & es.
* Petina Gappah (b. 1971, Zimbabwe), fiction wr.
* Anne-Marie Garat (b. 1946, France), nv.
* Nicole Garay (1873–1928, Panama), poet
* Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (b. 1949, Cuba/United States), fiction wr. in English
* Cristina García (b. 1958, Cuba/United States), nv.
* R. S. A. Garcia (living, Trinidad), science fiction wr.
* María Esther García López (b. 1948, Spain), poet, wr.
* Jane Gardam (b. 1928, England), fiction & ch. wr.
* Delphine Gardey (b. 1967, France), non-f. wr.
* Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849, Ireland), nv. & col.
* Elizabeth Gard'ner (1858–1926, Sweden/New Zealand), domestic science wr.
* Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska (1870–1932, Poland), nv. & es.
* Mridula Garg (b. 1938, India), fiction wr. & es.
* Francesca Gargallo (1956–2022, Italy/Mexico), poet & nv.
* Mariam Garikhuli (1883–1960, Georgia (Caucasus)/Soviet Union), nv. & ch. wr.
* Doris Pilkington Garimara (1937–2014, Australia), nv.
* Tatiana Garmash-Roffe (b. 1959, Soviet Union/Russia), nv.
* Helen Garner (b. 1942, Australia), nv. & col.
* Constance Garnett (1861–1946, England), translator
* Anne F. Garréta (b. 1962, France), nv.
* Carlota Garrido de la Peña (1870–1958, Argentina), journalist, wr.
* Fanny Garrido (1846–1917, Spain), nv. & col.
* Francisca Herrera Garrido (1869–1950, Spain), poet & nv. in Galician
* Marissa Garrido (1926–2021, Mexico), telenovela pw. & wr.
* Harriet E. Garrison (1848–1930, United States), medical wr.
* Elena Garro (c. 1916–1998, Mexico), screenwriter & fiction wr.
* Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968, England), archaeologist
* Amy Jacques Garvey (1895–1973, Jamaica), journalist & activist
* María Luisa Garza (1887–1980, Mexico), nv.
* Caroline Leigh Gascoigne (1813–1883, England), poet & nv.
* Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865, England), nv.; Cranford
* Whitney Gaskell (b. 1972, United States), nv.
* Catherine Gaskin (1929–2009, Australia), nv.
* Valérie de Gasparin (1813–1894, Switzerland), social wr. in French
* Brunella Gasperini (1918–1979, Italy), nv.
* Nathalie Gassel (b. 1964, Belgium), feminist wr.
* Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919–1995, France), poet & nun
* Liudmila Gatagova (living, Soviet Union/Russia), historian & es.
* Zélia Gattai (1916–2008, Brazil), nv. & ch. wr.
* Margaret Gatty (1809–1873, England), ch. wr. & biologist
* Delores Gauntlett (b. 1949, Jamaica), poet
* Judith Gautier (1845–1917, France), poet & nv.
* Anna Gavalda (b. 1970, France), nv.
* Jamila Gavin (b. 1941, India/England), fiction & ch. wr.
* Roxane Gay (b. 1974, United States), wr., ed. & social commentator
* Sophie Gay (1776–1852, France), nv. & librettist
* Alessia Gazzola (b. 1982, Italy), nv.
* Béatrice Lalinon Gbado (living, Benin), ch. wr.
* Ivone Gebara (b. 1944, Brazil), philosopher & nun
* Miriam Gebhardt (b. 1962, Germany), historian
* Pauline Gedge (b. 1945, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Vera Gedroits (1870–1932, Russia/Soviet Union), medical wr.
* Maggie Gee (b. 1948, England), nv.
* Angela Gegg (b. 1979, Belize), wr. & artist
* Luisa Geisler (b. 1991, Brazil), fiction wr.
* Naira Gelashvili (b. 1947, Georgia (Caucasus)), nv. & activist
* Edith Mary Gell (1860–1944, England), wr. & activist
* Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998, United States), nv, travel wr. & journalist
* Charley Genever (living, England), poet
* Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746–1830, France), nv. & education theorist
* Empress Genmei (元明天皇, 660–721, Japan), monarch & poet
* Louise Boije af Gennäs (b. 1971, Sweden), nv.
* Catherine of Genoa (St Catherine, 1447–1510, Italy), wr. & mystic
* Doris Gentile (1894–1972, Australia), fiction wr.
* Sulari Gentill (living, Australia), fiction wr.
* Elizabeth George (b. 1949, United States), mystery nv.
* Ella M. George (1850–1938, United States), non-f. wr. & newspaper editor
* Frances Shayle George (1828–1890, England/New Zealand), poet, es. & educator
* Margaret George (b. 1943, United States), nv.
* Nina George (b. 1973, Germany), wr.
* Danielle Legros Georges (~1965–2025, Haiti/United States), poet, es. & academic
* Rosemonde Gérard (1871–1953, France), poet & pw.
* Ágnes Gergely (b. 1933, Hungary), poet & nv.
* Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997, Netherlands), classicist & poet
* Doris Gercke (b. 1937, Germany), nv.
* Sylvie Germain (b. 1954, France), nv. & es.
* Teolinda Gersão (b. 1940, Portugal), fiction wr.
* Marina Gershenovich (b. 1960, Russia/Germany), poet
* Karen Gershon (1923–1993, Germany/England), poet & fiction & non-f. wr.
* Elfriede Gerstl (1932–2009, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet, fiction wr. & es.
* Amy Gerstler (b. 1956, United States), poet
* María Elena Gertner (1932–2013, Chile), poet, nv. & screenwriter
* Gertrude the Great (1256 – c. 1302, Germany), saint & mystic in Latin
* Masha Gessen (b. 1967, Soviet Union/United States), political wr.
* Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir (b. 1953, Iceland), ch. wr.
* Geum Hee (금희, b. 1979, Korea), wr.
* Yi Geun-hwa (이근화, b. 1976, Korea), poet
* Marie Gevers (1893–1975, Belgium), nv. in French
* Amélie Gex (1835–1883, France), poet & wr. also in Provençal
* Zarah Ghahramani (b. 1981, Iran/Persia/Australia), mem.
* Randa Ghazy (b. 1987, Egypt/Italy), wr.
* Salima Ghezali (b. 1958, Algeria), wr. & activist
* Sagarika Ghose (b. 1964, India), col. & nv.
* Maureen Gibbon (living, United States), fiction wr.
* June & Jennifer Gibbons (b. 1963, Jennifer died 1993, Wales), fiction wr.
* Kaye Gibbons (b. 1960, United States), nv.
* Stella Gibbons (1902–1989, England), nv. & short story wr.
* Angelica Gibbs (1908–1955, United States), fiction wr. & col.
* Eleanor Churchill Gibbs (1840–1925, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Ivy Gibbs (c. 1886–1966, Australia/New Zealand), poet & ch. wr.
* May Gibbs (1877–1969, Australia), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Doris Gibson (1910–2008, Peru), political wr.
* Suzanne Giese (1946–2012, Denmark), wr. & rights activist
* Robyn Gigl (b. 1952/1953, United States), thriller wr. & lawyer
* Eve Gil (b. 1968, Mexico), fiction wr. & poet
* Ruth Gilbert (1917–2016, New Zealand), poet
* Elizabeth Gilbert (b. 1969, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Annie Somers Gilchrist (1841–1912, United States), fiction, non-f. wr. & poet
* Ellen Gilchrist (1935–2024, United States), fiction wr. & poet
* Betty Gilderdale (1923–2021, New Zealand), ch. wr.
* Annabel Giles (b. 1959, Wales), nv. & broadcaster
* Olivia Aroha Giles (living, New Zealand), ch. & fiction wr.
* María Esther Gilio (1922–2011, Uruguay), biographer & col.
* Elizabeth Gilligan (1962–2017, United States), nv.
* Ruth Gilligan (b. 1988, Ireland), nv. & academic
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935, United States), sociologist & poet
* Florence Magruder Gilmore (1881–1945), religious wr., nv., translator
* Mary Gilmore (1865–1962, Australia), poet & col.
* Beryl Gilroy (1924–2001, Guyana), nv.
* Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994, Lithuania/United States), archaeologist & anthropologist
* Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919, Spain), nv., ss. wr., non-f. wr.
* Ruby Langford Ginibi (1934–2001, Australia), historian & non-f. wr.
* Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1945, Poland), poet & Hc. victim
* Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990, Russia/Soviet Union), critic & historian
* Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991, Italy), fiction & social wr.
* Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977, Russia/Soviet Union), mem. & political prisoner
* Cinzia Giorgio (b. 1975, Italy), nv. & academic
* Marosa di Giorgio (1932–2004, Uruguay), poet & nv.
* Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024, United States), poet, wr. & activist
* Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945, Russia/Soviet Union), poet, pw. & nv.
* Delphine de Girardin (1804–1855, France), es., nv. & pw.
* Banira Giri (1946–2021, Nepal), poet & wr.
* Lady Blanche Girouard (1898–1940, Ireland/England), fiction wr.
* Hallgerður Gísladóttir (1952–2007, Iceland), ethnologist & poet
* Þórdís Gísladóttir (b. 1965, Iceland), ch. wr., poet & nv.
* Moraa Gitaa (living, Kenya), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Anca Giurchescu (1930–2015, Romania), researcher
* Stanka Gjurić (b. 1956, Yu/Canada/Newfoundland), poet & es.
* Asiimwe Deborah GKashugi (living, Uganda), pw. & performer
* Evi Gkotzaridis (living, Greece), historian
* Diane Glancy (b. 1941, United States), poet, nv. & pw.
* Margo Glantz (b. 1930, Mexico), fiction wr., autobiographer & es.
* Henny Glarbo (1884–1955, Denmark), archivist
* Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945, United States), nv.
* Maude Glasgow (1876–1955, Ireland/United States), preventive medicine wr.
* Susan Glaspell (1876–1948, United States), nv. & pw.
* Julia Glass (b. 1956, United States), nv.
* Madeline Gleason (1903–1979, United States), poet & pw.
* Esther Glen (1881–1940, New Zealand), ch. wr., nv. & activist
* Mar Gómez Glez (b. 1977, Spain), pw. & nv.
* Patricia Glinton-Meicholas (b. 1950, Bahamas), wr., critic & educator
* Barbara Gloudon (1935–2022, Jamaica), journalist, pw.
* Louise Glück (1943–2023, United States), poet
* Glückel of Hameln (c. 1646–1724), diarist in Yiddish

### Gm–Gy

* Anna Gmeyner (1902–1991, Austria/Austria-Hungary/England), nv. & scriptwriter in German & English
* Christine Adjahi Gnimagnon (b. 1945, Benin), wr.
* Elisabetta Gnone (b. 1965, Italy), ch. wr.
* Charlotte Godley (1821–1907, Wales/New Zealand), correspondent
* Gail Godwin (b. 1937, United States), fiction & non-f. wr. & librettist
* Helga Goetze (1922–2008, Germany), wr., poet and painter
* Germaine Goetzinger (b. 1947, Luxembourg), historian, linguist & educator
* Katerina Gogou (1940–1993, Greece), poet, wr. & actor
* Christiane Gohl (b. 1958, Germany), ch. wr.
* Namita Gokhale (b. 1956, India), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Hawa Jande Golakai (b. 1979, Liberia), wr. & scientist
* Nora Gold (b. 1952, Canada), nv.
* Kaarina Goldberg (b. 1956, Finland/Austria/Austria-Hungary), ch. wr. & col.
* Natalie Goldberg (b. 1948, United States), non-f. wr.
* Goldie Goldbloom (b. 1964, Australia), fiction wr.
* Marita Golden (b. 1950, United States), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Kate De Goldi (b. 1959, New Zealand), ch. & fiction wr.
* Amy Goldin (1926–1978, United States), art critic
* Emma Goldman (1869–1940, Lithuania/United States), anarchist
* Júlia Goldman (b. 1974, Hungary), genre nv. & mathematician
* Anna Goldsworthy (b. 1974, Australia), wr., teacher & pianist
* Nilüfer Göle (b. 1953, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/France), academic
* Padma Gole (1913–1998, India), poet
* Alenka Goljevšček (1933–2017, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), mythologist & pw.
* Claire Goll (1890–1977, Germany), poet & nv. in German & French
* Berta Golob (b. 1932, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), fiction & non-f. wr. & poet
* Anne Golon (1921–2017, France/Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Estela Golovchenko (b. 1963, Uruguay), pw. & actor
* Luísa Costa Gomes (b. 1954, Portugal), librettist, nv. & pw.
* Jewelle Gomez (b. 1948, United States), poet, critic & pw.
* Lupe Gómez (b. 1972, Spain), wr. in Galician
* Petronila Angélica Gómez (1883–1971, Dominica), feminist wr.
* Eloísa Gómez-Lucena (living, Spain), non-f. wr.
* Gong Ji-young (공지영, b. 1963, Korea), nv.
* Gong Sun-ok (공선옥, b. 1963, Korea), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Ana Maria Gonçalves (b. 1970, Brazil), nv.
* Olga Gonçalves (1929–2004, Portugal), poet & nv.
* Sophie Gonzales (b. 1993, Argentina), YA wr.
* Aida González (b. 1962, Panama), fiction wr. & physician
* Ana Marta González (born 1969, Spain), non-f. wr.
* Aurelia Castillo de González (1842–1920, Cuba), prose wr. & poet
* Betina Gonzalez (b. 1972, Argentina), fiction wr.
* Clotilde González de Fernández (1880–1935, Argentina), non-f. wr. & educator
* Maria Lluïsa Borràs i Gonzàlez (1931–2010, Spain), art wr.
* Dulce María González (1958–2015, Mexico), fiction wr., poet & academic
* Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez (b. 1958, Portugal), ch. & YA wr.
* Enriqueta González Rubín (1832–1877, Spain), novelist in Asturian
* Lorna Goodison (b. 1947, Jamaica), poet & fiction wr.
* Allegra Goodman (b. 1967, United States), fiction wr.
* Lavinia Stella Goodwin (1833–1911, United States), wr. & educator
* Jeanne Goosen (1938–2020, South Africa), poet & fiction & ch. wr. in Afrikaans
* Belén Gopegui (b. 1963, Spain), nv.
* Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013, Soviet Union/France), poet & activist
* Viviana Gorbato (1950–2005, Argentina), wr. & academic
* Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014, South Africa), nv. & pw.; 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Alice Mary Gordon (c. 1855–1929, England), wr.
* Caroline Gordon (1895–1981, United States), nv. & critic
* Jaimy Gordon (b. 1944, United States), nv.
* Lyndall Gordon (b. 1941, South Africa/England), biographer
* Mary Gordon (b. 1949, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Sheila Gordon (1927–2013, South Africa/United States), fiction wr.
* Catherine Gore (1799–1861, England), nv. & pw.
* Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926, Ireland/England), poet, pw. & activist
* Alisz Goriupp (1894–1979, Russia/Hungary), media historian & librarian
* Nina Gorlanova (b. 1947, Soviet Union/Russia), fiction wr.
* Amanda Gorman (b. 1998, United States), poet
* Wangui wa Goro (b. (1961, Kenya/England), poet, fiction & non-f. wr. & academic
* Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022, Argentina), fiction wr.
* Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818–1892, Argentina/Peru), fiction wr. & politician
* Hedwig Gorski (b. 1949, United States), poet & artist
* Marthe Gosteli (1917–2017, Switzerland), feminist wr. in German
* Anastasia Gosteva (b. 1975, Soviet Union/Russia), nv. & poet
* Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942–2011, India), poet & scholar
* Hiromi Goto (b. 1966, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Mélanie Gouby (living, France/England), wr., col. & filmmaker
* Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984, England), fiction & ch. wr.
* Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793, France), feminist & pw.
* Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015, Tunisia), poet & ch. wr.
* Neelum Saran Gour (b. 1955, India), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Emilie Gourd (1879–1946, Switzerland), political wr. in French
* Candy Gourlay (living, Philippines/England), nv. & ch. wr. in English
* Marie de Gournay (1565–1645, France), wr. & nv.
* Pregs Govender (b. 1960, South Africa), social wr. & col. in English
* Katherine Govier (b. 1948, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr. & es.
* Santhini Govindan (b. 1959, India), ch. wr.
* Barbara Gowdy (b. 1950, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Iris Gower (1935–2010, Wales), nv.
* Kodagina Gowramma (1912–1939, India), wr.
* María Goyri (1873–1955, Spain), critic & academic
* Hermine de Graaf (1951–2013, Netherlands), nv.
* Patricia Grace (b. 1937, New Zealand), fiction & ch. wr.
* Annie Ryder Gracey (1836–1908, United States), wr.
* Posie Graeme-Evans (b. 1952, England/Australia), nv. & screenwriter
* Emma Graf (1865–1926, Switzerland), non-f. wr.
* Agnieszka Graff (b. 1970, Poland), feminist wr. & es.
* Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758, France), nv. & pw.
* Sue Grafton (1940–2017, United States), nv.
* Clementina Stirling Graham (1782–1877, Scotland) wr., translator
* Jorie Graham (b. 1950, United States), poet & academic
* Lauren Graham (b. 1967, United States), nv. & actor
* Virginia Graham (1910–1993, England), poet & humorist
* Winifred Graham (1873–1950, England), nv.
* Natalie Grams (b. 1978, Germany), medical wr.
* María Josefa García Granados (1796–1848, Guatemala), writer & poet
* Reyna Grande (b. 1975, Mexico/United States), nv. & mem. in English
* Almudena Grandes (b. 1960, Spain), nv.
* Évelyne Grandjean (b. 1939, France), pw., screenwriter & actor
* Lucie Grange (1839–1908, France), ed.
* Linda Grant (b. 1951, England), nv. & wr.
* Sybil Grant (1879–1955, England), wr. & artist
* Lesley Grant-Adamson (b. 1942, England), mystery fiction wr.
* Olga Grau (b. 1945, Chile), wr.
* Shirley Ann Grau (1929–2020, United States), fiction wr.
* Wilhelmina Gravallius (1807–1884, Sweden), nv.
* Elsa Grave (1918–2003, Sweden), nv., poet & artist
* Clotilde Graves (1863–1932, Ireland/England), pw. & nv.
* Lucia Graves (b. 1943, England), wr. & translator
* Caroline Gravière (Michel Fleury, 1821–1878, Belgium), nv. & wr. in French
* Charlotte E. Gray (1873–1926, US), nv. & religion
* Dulcie Gray (1915–2011, Malaysia/England), wr. & actor
* Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887, Scotland), archaeologist & travel wr.
* Mary Tenney Gray (1833–1904, United States), col.
* Maxwell Gray (1846–1923, England), nv. & poet
* Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie (1864–1931, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet, pw. & nv.
* Áine Greaney (b. c. 1962, Ireland/United States), wr.
* Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929, Ireland), historian & nationalist
* Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935, United States), nv.
* Charmaine Papertalk Green (b. 1962, Argentina), poet & artist
* Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866, Isle of Man), poet
* Miriam Green (b. c. 1950, South Africa/England), academic
* Paula Green, (b. 1955, New Zealand), poet & ch. wr.
* Rosario Green (1941–2017, Mexico), economist & politician
* Sarah Green (fl. 1790–1825, Ireland/England), nv.
* Bette Greene (1934–2020, United States), ch. & YA wr.
* Cordelia A. Greene (1831–1905, United States), non-f. wr.
* Frances Nimmo Greene (1867–1937, United States), nv, pw. & wr.
* Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene (1833–1891, Ireland), ch. wr.
* Jessie Greengrass (b. 1982, England), fiction wr.
* Lavinia Greenlaw (b. 1962, England), poet & nv.
* Bonnie Greer (b. 1948, England/United States), pw., nv. & critic
* Debora Greger (b. 1949, United States), poet & visual artist
* Linda Gregg (1942–2019, United States), poet
* Simonetta Greggio (b. 1961, Italy), nv. in French
* Alyse Gregory (1884–1967, United States/England), suffragist & wr.
* Doris Gregory (living, Canada/Newfoundland), wr.
* Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932, Ireland), folklorist & pw.
* Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–1694, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet
* Beatrice Greig (1869 – c. 1940s, Canada/Newfoundland/Trinidad), wr. & activist
* Virginie Greiner (born 1969), French comic book scriptwriter
* Anna Gréki (1931–1966, Algeria), poet, politician & educator
* Kate Grenville (b. 1950, Australia), nv. & academic
* Elsa Gress (1919–1988, Denmark), es., nv. & pw.
* Manuela Gretkowska (b. 1964, Poland), screenwriter & politician
* Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789, Ireland/England), poet
* Henry Gréville (1842–1902, Russia/France), nv.
* Constantia Grierson (c. 1705–1732, Ireland), poet & scholar
* Sarah Maria Griffin (b. c. 1988), wr. & poet
* Elizabeth Griffith (c. 1727–1793, Ireland), pw., fiction wr. & es.
* Ann Griffiths (1776–1805, Wales), poet & hymnist
* Josephine Van De Grift (1894-1927, United States), wr., col. & pw.
* Delia Grigore (b. 1972, Romania), Romani rights activist
* Lydia Grigorieva (b. 1945, Ukraine/England), poet & filmmaker
* Tatiana P. Grigorieva (1929–2014, Russia), es. & Japan expert
* Martha Grimes (b. 1931, United States), mystery nv.
* Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958, United States), col. & poet
* Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914, United States), anti-slavery activist & poet
* Vigdís Grímsdóttir (b. 1953, Iceland), poet, fiction & ch. wr.
* Beatrice Grimshaw (1870–1953, Ireland), travel wr.
* Charlotte Grimshaw (b. 1968, New Zealand), nv. & col.
* Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944, Russia/Soviet Union), nv., poet & pw.
* Katherine Van Allen Grinnell (1839–1917, United States), wr., lecturer, reformer
* Margareta Grip (1538–1586, Sweden), genealogist
* Maria Gripe (1923–2007, Sweden), ch. & YA wr.
* Eliza Griswold (b. 1973, United States), col. & poet
* Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842–1909, United States), wr., poet
* Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex (1920–2005, Greece), nv. & col.
* Vona Groarke (b. 1964, Ireland/United States), poet & educator
* Anne-Lise Grobéty (1949–2010, Switzerland), fiction wr., poet & col. in French
* Katarzyna Grochola (b. 1957, Poland), fiction wr. & pw.
* Alma De Groen (b. 1941, New Zealand/Australia), pw.
* Els de Groen (b. 1949, Netherlands), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Lauren Groff (b. 1978, United States), fiction wr.
* Paula Grogger (1892–1984, Austria/Austria-Hungary), wr.
* Alyona Gromnitskaya (b. 1975, Ukraine), poet & politician
* Edith Searle Grossmann (1863–1931, Australia/New Zealand), nv. & educator
* Benoîte Groult (1920–2016, France), wr. & activist
* Henriette Grové (1922–2009, South Africa), fiction wr. & pw. in Afrikaans
* Teji Grover (living, India), poet, fiction wr. & painter
* Isabel Grubb (1881–1972, Ireland), Quaker historian
* Anna Grue (b. 1957, Denmark), crime wr.
* Sara Gruen (b. 1969, Canada/Newfoundland/United States), nv.
* Kim Gruenenfelder (living, United States), nv.
* Argula von Grumbach (1492 – c. 1555, Germany), religious wr. and poet
* Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912, England), nv., poet & non-f. wr.
* Olga Grushin (b. 1971, Soviet Union/United States), nv. in English
* Wioletta Grzegorzewska (b. 1974, Poland), poet & fiction wr.
* Gu Taiqing (顾太清, 799 – c. 1877, China), poet
* Guan Daosheng (字仲姬, 1262–1319, China), poet, calligrapher & painter
* Gloria Guardia (1940–2019, Panama), fiction wr. & critic
* Carla Guelfenbein (b. 1959, Chile), nv.
* Rosa Guerra (1834–1864, Argentina), educator, journalist, wr.
* María José Guerra Palmero (born 1962, Spain), philosopher, non-f. wr., & feminist theorist
* Wendy Guerra (b. 1970, Cuba), poet & nv.
* Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749, France), nv. & patron
* Soumaya Naamane Guessous (living, Morocco), sociologist & col.
* Judith Guest (b. 1936, United States), nv. & screenwriter
* Amalia Guglielminetti (1881–1941, Italy), poet & ch. wr.
* Margherita Guidacci (1921–1992, Italy), poet & linguist
* Beatriz Guido (1924–1988, Argentina), nv. & screenwriter
* Pernette Du Guillet (c. 1520–1545, France), poet
* Regina Guimarães (b. 1957, Portugal), poet & pw.
* Ruth Guimarães (1920–2014, Brazil), fiction wr. & poet
* Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018, United States), science fiction & ch. wr. & poet
* Evelyn May Guinid (b. 1971, Philippines), nv. in Tagalog
* Olga Guirao (b. 1956, Spain), nv.
* Guji, Princess of Joseon (현주이구지, died 1489, Korea), wr., poet & dancer
* Zumrud Gulu-zade (1932–2021, Azerbaijan), philosopher
* Nataliya Gumenyuk (b. 1983, Ukraine), journalist, & wr.
* Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806, Germany), poet
* Eileen Gunn (b. 1945, United States), fiction wr. & editor
* Elizabeth Gunn (1927–2022, United States), nv.
* Kirsty Gunn (b. 1960, New Zealand), fiction wr.
* Elín Ebba Gunnarsdóttir (b. 1953, Iceland), fiction wr.
* Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir (b. 1963, Iceland), ch. wr. & nv.
* Monica Gunning (b. 1930, Jamaica/United States), ch. wr. & poet
* Susannah Gunning (c. 1740–1800, England), nv.
* Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir (b. 1938, Iceland), nv.
* Shusha Guppy (1935–2008, Iran/Persia/England), wr. & singer
* Tanika Gupta (b. 1963, England), pw. & screenwriter
* Aysel Gürel (1929–2008, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), lyricist
* Elena Guro (1877–1913, Russia), futurist wr.
* Alice Gurschner (1869–1944, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv., pw. & poet
* Madeleine Gustafsson (b. 1937, Sweden), poet, es. & critic
* Aldona Gustas (1932–2022, Lithuania/Germany), poet & illustrator
* Rósa Guðmundsdóttir (1795–1855, Iceland), poet
* Carmela Gutiérrez de Gambra (1921-1984, Spain), romance nv.
* Goya Gutiérrez (b. 1954, Spain), poet & wr.
* Rita Cetina Gutiérrez (1846–1908, Mexico), poet & educator
* Azmiye Hami Güven (1904–1954, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), nv.
* Rosa Guy (1922–2012, Trinidad/United States), fiction & YA wr.
* Emma Jane Guyton (1825–1887, England), nv. & editor
* Eulalia Guzmán (1890–1985, Mexico), archaeologist & educator
* Maria Odulio de Guzman (fl. 20th century), wr. & educator
* Viviana Guzmán (b. 1964, Chile), poet & musician
* Yaa Gyasi (b. 1989, Ghana/Gold Coast/United States), nv.
* Jeon Gyeong-rin (전경린, b. 1962, Korea), nv.
* Althea Gyles (1867–1949, Ireland), poet & artist
* Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd (1773–1856, Denmark), fiction wr.
* Minrose Gwin (b. 1945, United States), poet, fiction and non-fiction wr.
* Beth Gylys (b. 1964, United States), poet & academic
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### Ha–He

* H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961, United States), poet, nv. & mem.
* Ha Seong-nan (하성란, b. 1967, Korea), fiction wr.
* Meredith Haaf (b. 1983, Germany), wr.
* Francisca de Haan (living, Netherlands), social scientist
* Hilja Haapala (1877–1958, Finland), wr.
* Helen Fields (born 1969, British crime wr.
* Hella Haasse (1918–2011, Netherlands), nv.
* Anna Haava (1864–1957, Estonia), poet & fiction & non-f. wr.
* Huzama Habayeb (b. 1965, Palestine/Emirates), fiction wr. & poet
* Maria Hack (1777–1844, England), ch. wr.
* Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942, United States), poet, translator & critic
* Yanna Hadatty (b. 1969, Ecuador/Mexico), fiction wr. & es.
* Joumana Haddad (b. 1970, Lebanon), poet & es.
* Tessa Hadley (b. 1956, England), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Mimi Hafida (b. 1965, Algeria), poet & artist
* Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949, Philippines/United States), poet, pw. & nv.
* Lucie Caroline Hager (1853–1903, United States), wr. & poet
* Mandy Hager (b. 1960, New Zealand), fiction, non-f., YA and ch. wr.
* Moto Hagio (萩尾望都, b. 1949, Japan), manga creator
* Lucina Hagman (1853–1946, Finland), feminist & politician
* Michitsuna no Haha (道綱, c. 935–995, Japan), diarist
* Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880, Germany), nv., poet and social wr.
* Sarah Rogers Haight (1808–1881, United States), traveler and writer
* Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (b. 1938, United States), nv. & pw.
* Seo Hajin (서하진, b. 1960, Korea), wr.
* Roya Hakakian (b. 1966, Iran/Persia), poet & wr.
* Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm (b. 1971, Finland), psychologist & textbook wr.
* Baby Halder (b. 1973, India), autobiographer
* Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820–1900, United States), fiction wr. & col.
* Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020, Fr/Tunisia), es.
* Lady Anne Halkett (1623–1699, England), mem. & es.
* Anna Maria Hall (1800–1881, Ireland), nv.
* Bernadette Hall (b. 1945, New Zealand), pw. & poet
* Megan Hall (b. 1972, South Africa), poet in English
* Pip Hall (b. 1971, New Zealand), scriptwriter & actor
* Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943, England), nv. & poet
* Sarah Hall (b. 1974, England), nv. & poet
* Guðný Halldórsdóttir (b. 1954, Iceland), screenwriter
* Jean Halley (b. 1967, United States), sociologist
* Marion Rose Halpenny (living, England), equestrian
* Ada L. Halstead (1861-1901, United States), nv.
* Rosalie Ham (b. 1955, Australia), nv. & pw.
* Helvi Hämäläinen (1907–1998, Finland), fiction wr. & poet
* Joan Hambidge (b. 1956, South Africa), poet & academic in Afrikaans
* Barbara Hambly (b. 1951, United States), nv. & screenwriter
* Yasmeen Hameed (b. 1951, Pakistan), poet & educator
* Virpi Hämeen-Anttila (b. 1958, Finland), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Joan de Hamel (1924–2011, England/New Zealand), ch. wr.
* Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah (1918–2000, India/Pakistan), poet, fiction & travel wr.
* C. J. Hamilton (1841–1935, England/Ireland), pw., poet & ch. wr.
* Jane Eaton Hamilton (b. 1954, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr. & poet
* Jane Hamilton (b. 1957, United States), nv.
* Marianne-Caroline Hamilton (1777–1861, Ireland), mem. & artist
* Virginia Hamilton (1936–2002, United States), ch. nv.
* Anna Hamilton Geete (1848–1913), Swedish translator and biographer
* Suheir Hammad (b. 1973, Palestine/United States), poet, pw. & activist
* Beatrice Hammer (b. 1963, France), fiction & ch. wr.
* Marie Hammer (1907–2002, Denmark), zoologist & entomologist
* Irène Hamoir (1906–1994, Belgium), nv. & poet in French
* Janie Hampton (b. 1952, England), non-f. wr. & journalist
* Susan Hampton (b. 1949, Australia), poet
* Han Kang (한강, b. 1970, Korea), fiction wr.
* Han Malsook (한말숙, b. 1931, Korea), fiction wr.
* Han Moo-sook (한무숙, 1918–1993, Korea), nv.
* Amira Hanafi (born 1979), American/Egyptian poet and artist active in electronic literature
* Nahema Hanafi (born 1983, France) historian & non-f. wr.
* Judith Hand (b. 1940, United States), nv., es. & screenwriter
* Nathalie Handal (b. 1969, Haiti/United States), poet & pw.
* Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1871–1955, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet & nv.
* Elizabeth Hands (1746–1815, England), poet
* Khady Hane (b. 1962, Senegal/France), nv.
* Helene Hanff (1916–1997, United States), wr. & screenwriter; 84, Charing Cross Road
* Hani Motoko (羽仁もと子, 1873–1957, Japan), col. & autobiographer
* Lynsey Hanley (b. 1976, England), wr. & academic
* Kristin Hannah (b. 1960, United States), nv.
* Sophie Hannah (b. 1971, England), poet & nv.
* Emma Hannigan (1972–2018, Ireland), wr.
* Anne Hänninen (b. 1958, Finland), poet & es.
* Barbara Hanrahan (1939–1991, Australia), nv. & artist
* Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965, United States), pw.
* Bente Hansen (1940–2022, Denmark), wr. & activist
* Anita Hansemann (1962–2019, Switzerland), fiction & social wr. in German
* Carola Hansson (b. 1942, Sweden), nv. & pw.
* Bergtóra Hanusardóttir (b. 1946, Faroe Islands), fiction wr.
* Hao Jingfang (郝景芳, b. 1984, China), science fiction nv.
* Volha Hapeyeva (b. 1982, Belarus), poet & linguist
* Maha Harada (原田マハ, b. 1962, Japan), nv.
* Anwara Syed Haq (b. 1940, India/Bangladesh), fiction & ch. wr.
* Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir (1942–2016, Iceland), poet
* Nino Haratischwili (b. 1983, Georgia (Caucasus)), nv. & pw.
* Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (1843–1925, United States), wr.
* Thea von Harbou (1888–1954, Germany), nv. & screenwriter
* Kerry Hardie (b. 1951, Singapore/Northern Ireland), poet & nv.
* Ratih Hardjono (b. 1960, Indonesia), socio-political wr.
* Elizabeth Hardy (1794–1854, Ireland/England), nv.
* Stacy Hardy (living, South Africa), fiction wr. & col. in English
* Maud Cuney Hare (1874–1936, United States), wr. & pianist
* Lesbia Harford (1891–1927, Australia), poet, nv. & activist
* Githa Hariharan (b. 1954, India), nv.
* Joy Harjo (b. 1951, United States), poet
* Anna-Leena Härkönen (b. 1965, Finland), nv., stage & TV wr.
* Saima Harmaja (1913–1937, Finland), poet & diarist
* Aljean Harmetz (b. 1928, United States), non-f. writer and journalist
* Beverley Harper (1943–2002, Australia), nv.
* Frances Harper (1825–1911, United States), poet & nv.
* Jacqueline Harpman (1929–2012, Belgium), wr. in French
* Alice Harriman (1861–1925, United States), poet
* Amanda Bartlett Harris (1824–1917, United States), wr. & critic
* Dorothy Joan Harris (b. 1931, Japan/Canada/Newfoundland), ch. wr.
* Emily Marion Harris (1844–1900, England), nv. & poet
* Ethel Hillyer Harris (1859–1931, United States), wr.
* Jane Elizabeth Harris (c. 1853–1942, England/New Zealand), wr. & spiritualist
* Joanne Harris (b. 1964, England), nv.
* M. G. Harris (b. 1966, Mexico/England), ch. wr.
* Nancy Harris (living, Ireland/England), pw. & screenwriter
* Jennifer Harrison (b. 1955, Australia), poet
* Juanita Harrison (1887–1967, United States), autobiographer
* Sarah Harrison (b. 1946, England), nv. & ch. wr.
* Elizabeth Harrower (1928–2020, Australia), fiction wr.
* Carla Harryman (b. 1952, United States), poet, es. & pw.
* Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (living, Ireland), poet, pw. & painter
* Milka Hartman (1902–1997, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet
* Petra Hartmann (b. 1970, Germany), nv. & ch. wr.
* Nanae Haruno (榛野なな恵, J, manga creator
* Elisabeth Harvor (b. 1936, Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & poet
* Gwen Harwood (1920–1995, Australia), poet & librettist
* Johanna Harwood (b. 1930, Ireland/England), screenwriter
* Nigar Hasan-Zadeh (living, Azerbaijan), poet & philologist
* Iulia Hasdeu (1869–1888, Romania/France), poet
* Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子, 1920–1992, Japan), manga creator
* Hasegawa Shigure (長谷川時雨, 1879–1941, Japan), pw. & editor
* Dilara Hashem (1936–2022, India/Bangladesh), nv.
* Sugako Hashida (橋田 壽賀子, 1925–2021, Japan), scriptwriter
* Khadijah Hashim (b. 1942, Malaysia), fiction & ch. wr. & poet
* Molly Haskell (b. 1939, United States), film critic & non-f. author
* Eveline Hasler (b. 1933, Switzerland), fiction & ch. wr.
* Shahida Hassan (b. 1953, Bangladesh/Pakistan), poet
* Margaret Hasse (b. 1950, United States), poet & wr.
* Satu Hassi (b. 1951, Finland), textbook wr. & politician
* Pirjo Hassinen (b. 1957, Finland), nv.
* Kirsten Hastrup (b. 1948, Denmark), anthropologist
* Isoko Hatano (波多野勤子, 1905–1978, Japan), writer & psychologist
* Mary R. P. Hatch (1848–1935, United States), poet, fiction wr.
* Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990, India), social wr.
* Ana Hatherly (1929–2015, Portugal), academic & poet
* Libby Hathorn (b. 1943, Australia), poet, librettist & ch. wr.
* Bisco Hatori (葉鳥ビスコ, b. 1975), manga creator
* Miyuki Hatoyama (鳩山幸, b. 1943, Japan), cookery wr. & actor
* Ann Hatton (1764–1838, England), nv. & poet
* Mihri Hatun (c.1460–1506, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), poet
* Mireille Havet (1898–1932, France), poet, diarist & nv.
* Anne Haverty (b. 1959, Ireland), nv. & poet
* Bettina Hauge (b. 1964, Denmark), anthropologist
* Mila Haugová (b. 1942, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia), poet
* Jiřina Hauková (1919–2005, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), poet & translator
* Marie-Louise Haumont (1919–2012, Belgium), nv. in French
* Eva Hauserová (1954–2023, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), science fiction & non-f. wr.
* Marlen Haushofer (1920–1970, Austria/Austria-Hungary), fiction wr.
* Esther Hautzig (1930–2009, Poland/United States), mem. & ch. wr.
* Kathleen Hawkins (1883–1981, Sri Lanka/New Zealand), poet
* Paula Hawkins (b. 1972, Zimbabwe/England), wr.
* Susan Hawthorne (b. 1951), fiction & non-f. wr. & poet
* Catherine Hay (1910–1995, New Zealand), nv.
* Elizabeth Hay (b. 1951, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Karyn Hay (b. 1959, New Zealand), nv. & broadcaster
* Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963, Wales), poet & broadcaster
* Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis, 1932–2005, Wales), wr. & es.
* Mary Hayden (1862–1942, Ireland), historian
* Renée Hayek (living, Lebanon), fiction wr.
* Alice Hayes (1657–1720, England) Quaker preacher, non-f. wr.
* Matilda Hays (1820–1897, England), wr., journalist & actress
* Victoria Hayward (1876–1956, Bermuda), col. & travel wr.
* Eliza Haywood (1693–1756, England), nv., pw. & poet
* Helen Haywood (1907–1995, England), ch. wr.
* Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016, United States), nv. & fiction wr.
* Bessie Head (1937–1986, Botswana), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Helen Heath (b. 1970, New Zealand), poet
* Anne Hébert (1916–2000, Canada/Newfoundland), poet & nv.
* Chantal Hébert (b. 1954, Canada/Newfoundland), political col.
* Jennifer Michael Hecht (b. 1965, United States), poet, historian & philosopher
* Annie French Hector (1825–1902, Ireland/England), nv.
* Evalena Fryer Hedley (1865–1943, United States), journalist & wr.
* Barbro Hedvall (b. 1944, Sweden), education wr.
* Geum Hee (금희, b. 1979, Korea/China), fiction wr. in Korean
* Sylvia Vanden Heede (b. 1961, Belgium), ch. wr. in Flemish
* Ra Heeduk (나희덕, b. 1966, Korea), poet
* Marjorie van Heerden (b. 1949, South Africa), ch. wr. in Afrikaans & illustrator
* Marié Heese (b. 1942, South Africa), nv. in Afrikaans
* Ursula Hegi (b. 1946, Germany/United States), nv.
* Marie Heiberg (1890–1942, England), poet
* Uta-Maria Heim (b. 1963, Germany), crime wr., poet & pw.
* Úrsula Heinze (b. 1941, Germany/Spain), poet & fiction and ch. wr. in Galician
* Anita Heiss (b. 1968, Australia), fiction wr., poet & col.
* Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941, United States), poet, es. & translator
* Lin Van Hek (b. 1944, Australia), fiction wr.
* Etelka Kenéz Heka (b. 1936, Hungary), wr. & poet
* Liliana Heker (b. 1943, Argentina), fiction wr. & es.
* Guðrún Helgadóttir (1935–2022, Iceland), ch. wr.
* Adèle Hommaire de Hell (1819–1883, France), wr.
* Cat Hellisen (b. 1977, South Africa/Scotland), nv.
* Lillian Hellman (1905–1984, United States), pw.
* Lucinda Barbour Helm (1839–1897, United States), wr. & editor
* Guðrið Helmsdal (b. 1941, Faroe Islands), poet
* Rakel Helmsdal (b. 1966, Faroe Islands), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Felicia Hemans (1793–1835, England/Wales), poet in English
* Kristien Hemmerechts (b. 1955, Belgium), fiction wr. in Flemish & English
* Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel (1919–2005, Paraguay), social wr.
* Barbara Hemphill (died 1858, Ireland), nv.
* Anna Minerva Henderson (1887–1987, Canada), poet in English
* Beth Henley (b. 1952, United States), pw. & screenwriter
* Nathalie Henneberg (1910–1977, France), science fiction wr.
* Claire Hennessy (b. 1986, Ireland), YA wr.
* Emmy Hennings (1885–1948, Germany), poet & performer
* Agnes Henningsen (1868–1962, Denmark), fiction wr. & mem.
* Georgina Henry (1960–2014, England), journalist
* Marguerite Henry (1902–1997, United States), ch. wr.
* Luise Hensel (1798–1876, Germany), wr. & poet
* Rosa Henson (1927–1997, Philippines), autobiographer
* Ebba Hentze (1930–2015, Faroe Islands), ch. wr. & poet
* Heo Nanseolheon (허초희, 1563–1589, Korea), poet
* Heo Su-gyeong (허수경, 1964–2018, Korea)
* Sally Hepworth (b. 1980, Australia), wr.
* Toeti Heraty (1933–2021, Indonesia), poet
* Dorothea Herbert (c. 1767–1829, Ireland), diarist & poet
* Jane Emily Herbert (1821–1882, Ireland), poet
* Marie Herbert (b. 1941, Ireland/England), biographer & nv.
* Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621, England), poet & patron
* Sarah Herbert (1824–1846, Ireland/Canada/Newfoundland), wr.
* Iva Hercíková (1935–2007, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), nv. & screenplay wr.
* María Luisa Ocampo Heredia (1899–1974, Mexico), nv. & pw.
* Íeda Herman (1925–2019, Iceland), wr.
* Judith Hermann (b. 1970, Germany), fiction wr.
* Catherine Hermary-Vieille (b. 1943, France), nv.
* Marie Hermanson (b. 1956, Sweden), nv.
* Luisa Josefina Hernández (1928–2023, Mexico), nv. & pw.
* Georgina Herrera (1936–2021, Cuba), poet
* M. Miriam Herrera (b. 1963, United States), wr. & poet
* Jeanne Hersch (1910–2000, Switzerland), philosopher in French
* Stella K. Hershan (1915–2014, Austria/Austria-Hungary/United States), nv. & biographer
* Judith Herzberg (b. 1934, Netherlands), poet & pw.
* Karen Hesse (b. 1952, United States), ch. nv.
* Juliette Heuzey (1865–1952, France), nv. & biog.
* Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002, Australia), poet, nv. & pw.
* Ellen Hewett (1843–1926, Channel Islands/New Zealand), wr.
* Annie Hewlett (1887–1974), Canada, wr.
* Maryam Heydarzadeh (b. 1977, Iran/Persia), poet & singer.
* Elisabeth von Heyking (1861–1925, Germany), nv., travel wr. & diarist
* Charlotte von Hezel (1755–1817, Germany), wr. & journalist

### Hi–Hy

* Grace Hibbard (ca. 1835 – 1911, United States), wr. & poet
* Eleanor Hibbert (several pseudonyms, 1906–1993, England), nv.
* Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939, Netherlands), ch. wr. also in West Frisian
* Elizabeth Hickey (1917–1999, Ireland), local historian
* Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845–1924, Ireland/England), wr. & poet
* Mary St Domitille Hickey (1882–1958, New Zealand), historian & nun
* Mary Agnes Hickson (1821–1899, Ireland), antiquarian
* Stefani Hid (b. 1985, Indonesia/Germany), fiction wr.
* Akiko Higashimura (東村アキコ, b. 1975, Japan), manga creator
* F. E. Higgins (living, Ireland), ch. wr.
* Rita Ann Higgins (b. 1955, Ireland), poet & pw.
* Sarah Higgins (1830–1923, England/New Zealand), wr. & midwife
* Colleen Higgs (b. 1962, South Africa), poet & fiction wr. in English
* Helen Burns Higgs (1897–1983, Bahamas), wr. & illustrator
* Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995, United States), crime fiction wr.
* Asa Higuchi (ひぐちアサ, b. 1970, Japan), manga creator
* Keiko Higuchi (樋口恵子, b. 1932, Japan), social wr. & activist
* Ichiyō Higuchi (樋口一葉, 1872–1896, Japan), fiction wr.
* Tachibana Higuchi (樋口橘, b. 1976, Japan), manga creator
* Aoi Hiiragi (柊あおい, b. 1962, Japan), manga creator
* Nadia Hijab (living, Palestine/United States), political wr.
* Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179, Germany), wr. in Latin, composer & abbess
* Ernestine Hill (1900–1972, Australia), travel wr. & nv.
* Eva Hill (1898–1981, New Zealand), wr. & physician
* Lorna Hill (1902–1991, England), ch. nv.
* Rosemary Hill (b. 1957, England), wr. & historian
* Rut Hillarp (1914–2003, Sweden), poet & nv.
* Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916, Germany), nv. and actor
* Etty Hillesum (1914–1943, Netherlands), correspondent, diarist & Hc. victim
* Joanne C. Hillhouse (b. 1970s, Antigua), wr., col. & educator
* Hilda Hilst (1930–2004, Brazil), poet, pw. & nv.
* Kaoruko Himeno (姫野カオルコ, b. 1958, Japan), nv.
* Saeko Himuro (氷室冴子, 1957–2008, Japan), nv., es. & pw.
* Zahida Hina (living, India/Pakistan), es., fiction wr. & pw.
* Helen Hindpere, (Estonia), writer
* Vera Hingorani (1924–2018, India), gynecologist & medical wr.
* Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982, Ireland/England), nv.
* Matsuri Hino (樋野まつ, Japan), manga creator
* S. E. Hinton (b. 1948, United States), ch. nv.
* Taiko Hirabayashi (平林たい子, 1905–1972, Japan), fiction wr. & es.
* Hiratsuka Raichō (平塚らいちょう, 1886–1971, Japan), writer & activist
* Rozalie Hirs (b. 1965, Netherlands), poet & composer
* Afua Hirsch (b. 1981, England), wr. & broadcaster
* Marianne Van Hirtum (1925–1988, Belgium), poet in French
* Anna-Liisa Hirviluoto (1929–2000, Finland), archaeologist
* Laila Hirvisaari (1938–2021, Finland), fiction wr. & pw.
* Elina Hirvonen (b. 1975, Finland), wr. & film-maker
* Sofia Hjärne (1780–1860, Finland), salonnière & nv. in Swedish
* Hera Hjartardóttir (b. 1983, Iceland),
* Dagmar Hjort (1860–1902, Denmark), educator & activist
* Mary Hobhouse (1864–1901, Ireland/England), poet & nv.
* Laura Z. Hobson (1900–1986, United States), nv.
* Karla Höcker (1901–1992, Germany), nv. & biographer
* Merle Hodge (b. 1944, Trinidad), nv. & critic
* Louise Manning Hodgkins (1846–1935, United States), wr. & educator
* Helen Hodgman (1945–2022, Australia), nv. & screenwriter
* Eva Hodgson (1924–1920, Bermuda), political wr.
* Vere Hodgson (1901–1979), British diarist
* Daniela Hodrová (1946–2024, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), wr. & scholar
* Marjolijn Hof (b. 1956, Netherlands), ch. wr.
* Mari Ruef Hofer (1858/59-1929, United States), non-f. wr.
* Alice Hoffman (b. 1952, United States), nv. & YA & ch. wr.
* Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955, United States), fiction wr.
* Klementyna Hoffmanowa (1798–1845, Poland), fiction & ch. wr. & activist
* Barbara Hofland (1770–1844, England), ch. wr. & poet
* Linda Hogan (b. 1947, United States), poet & fiction wr.
* Zita Holbourne (b. 1960s, England), poet and non-fic. wr.
* Ann Catherine Holbrook (1780–1837, United Kingdom), actress and wr.
* Margaret Holford (1778–1852, England), poet & nv.
* Margaret Holford the Elder (1757–1834, England), nv, pw. & poet
* Heidi Holland (1947–2012, South Africa), col. & wr. in English
* Jane Holland (b. 1966, Isle of Man), poet, performer & nv.
* Norah M. Holland (1876–1925, Canada), wr., poet
* Sarah Holland (b. 1961, Isle of Man), wr., actor & singer
* Xaviera Hollander (b. 1943, Netherlands), mem.
* Gwen Hollington (1919–2014, England), translator
* Liddy Holloway (1947–2004, New Zealand), TV scriptwriter & actor
* Anne Holm (1922–1998, Denmark), col. & ch. wr.
* Maria Holm (1845–1912, Latvia), poet & fiction wr. in German
* Ada Augusta Holman (1869–1949, Australia), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Charlie N. Holmberg (b. 1988, United States), fantasy wr.
* Constance Holme (1880–1955, England), nv. & pw.
* Janet Holmes (b. 1947, New Zealand), socio-linguistics wr.
* Margie Holmes (living, Philippines), psychologist
* Mary Anne Holmes (1773–1805, Ireland), poet & wr.
* Johanna Holmström (b. 1981, Finland), fiction wr. in Swedish
* Lyubov Holota (b. 1949, Ukraine), fiction & non-f. wr. & poet
* Hanne-Vibeke Holst (b. 1959, Denmark), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952, Netherlands), poet & politician
* Winifred Holtby (1898–1935, England), nv. & col.
* Ani Hona (1938–1997, New Zealand) wr., poet
* Xiao Hong (蕭紅, 1911–1942, China), fiction wr.
* Hong Yun-suk (홍윤숙, 1925–2015, Korea), poet
* Barbara Honigmann (b. 1949, Germany/France), pw.
* Hong Ying (虹影, b. 1962, China), poet & fiction wr.
* Lynley Hood (b. 1942, New Zealand), biographer
* Hilda Mary Hooke (1898–1978, Canada), poet & pw
* bell hooks (pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins; 1952–2021, United States), feminist academic
* Maryam Hooleh (b. 1978, Iran/Persia), wr. & poet
* Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848, United States), poet
* Ofelia Hooper (1900–1981, Panama), poet & activist
* Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930, United States), nv., col. & pw.
* Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960, Jamaica/Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Mererid Hopwood (b. 1964, Wales), poet
* María Gertrudis Hore (1742–1801, Spain), poet
* Jessica Horn (b. 1979, England), activist & poet
* Marya Hornbacher (b. 1974, United States), wr. & col.
* Amelia Horne (1839–1921, United Kingdom), memoir wr.
* Isabel Hornibrook (1859–1952, Ireland/United States), ch. wr.
* Maria Teresa Horta (b. 1937, Portugal), poet & activist
* Corinne Stocker Horton (1871–1947, United States), non-f. wr., ed.
* Ellen Hørup (1871–1953, Denmark), non-f. wr.
* Sally El Hosaini (living, Wales), scriptwriter & film director
* Tatsuko Hoshino (星野立子, 1903–1984, Japan), poet
* Chieko Hosokawa (細川智栄子, b. 1935, Japan), manga creator
* Janette Turner Hospital (b. 1942, Australia), fiction wr.
* Selina Hossain (b. 1947, India/Bangladesh), nv.
* Yumi Hotta (堀田由美, b. 1957, Japan), manga creator
* Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto (b. 1939, Benin), poet & educator
* Norah Hoult (1898–1984, Ireland/England), fiction wr.
* Gisèle Hountondji (b. 1954, Benin), nv. & es.
* Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934–2024, United States), wr.
* Penelope Houston (1927–2015, England), film critic and journal editor
* Annelise Hovmand (1926–2016, Denmark), screenwriter & film director
* Maureen Howard (1930–2022, United States), nv., mem. & editor
* Philippa Howden-Chapman (living, New Zealand), public health wr. & academic
* Fanny Howe (b. 1940, United States), poet & fiction wr.
* Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910, United States), abolitionist, activist & poet; "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
* Samantha Lee Howe (b. 1965, England), fiction wr. & pw.
* Susan Howe (b. 1937, United States), poet, scholar & critic
* Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981, Australia/United States), poet
* Edith Howes (1872–1954, England/New Zealand), ch. wr. & educator
* Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884, England), wr. & feminist
* Mary Howitt (1799–1888, England), poet & ch. wr.; "The Spider and the Fly"
* Ana María Vázquez Hoys (b. 1945, Spain), Anc. history professor
* Elizabeth Hoyt (pen name Julia Harper, living, United States), nv.
* Elizabeth Orpha Sampson Hoyt (pen name Aunt Libbie; 1828–1912, United States), philosopher, poet, wr., lecturer
* Hrotsvith von Gandersheim (c. 935–c. 1002, Germany), pw. & poet in Latin
* Hrytsko Hryhorenko (1867–1924, Ukraine), poet & col.
* Maryna Hrymych (b. 1961, Ukraine), nv. & academic
* Hu Lanqi (胡兰畦, 1901–1994, China), wr. & military commander
* Ganggang Hu Guidice (胡剛剛, b. 1984, United States), writer & artist
* Huang E (黄峨, 1498–1569, China), poet
* Madame Huarui (花蕊夫人, c. 940–976, China), poet & imperial concubine
* Therese Huber (1764–1829, Germany), fiction & travel wr.
* Ricarda Huch (1864–1947, Germany), historian, nv. & poet
* Anna Hude (1858–1934, Denmark), historian
* Eva Hudečková (b. 1949, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), wr. & pw.
* Kerry Hudson (b. 1980, Scotland), wr. & nv.
* Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel (1959–2020, South Africa), pastor & academic
* Arianna Huffington (b. 1950, Gk/United States), wr. & col.
* Pauline von Hügel (1858–1901, England), religious wr.
* Lynn Huggins-Cooper (b. 1964, England), fiction, non-f. & ch. wr.
* Ann Harriet Hughes (Gwyneth Vaughan, 1852–1910, Wales), nv.
* Babette Hughes (1906–1982, United States), pw.
* Caoilinn Hughes (living, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Ellen Hughes (1867–1927, Wales), poet, es. & suffragist
* Frieda Hughes (b. 1960, England), poet & painter
* Shirley Fenton Huie (1924–2016, Australia), non-f. wr.
* Hulda (1881–1946, Iceland), wr. & poet
* Akasha Gloria Hull (b. 1944, United States), poet, educator & critic
* Keri Hulme (1947–2021, New Zealand), fiction wr. & poet
* Petra Hůlová (b. 1979, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), nv.
* Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1781–1846, Netherlands), pamphleteer
* Marie-Thérèse Humbert (b. 1940, Mauritius), fiction wr.
* Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855–1897, Ireland), nv.
* Arlene Hunt (b. 1972, Ireland), crime wr.
* Vilma Rose Hunt (1926–2012, Australia/United States), scientist
* Bem Le Hunte (b. 1964, India/Australia), nv.
* Anne Hunter (1742–1821, England), poet & salonnière
* Kristin Hunter (1931–2008, United States), nv.
* Constance Hunting (1925–2006, United States), poet
* Florence Huntley (1861–1912, United States), editor & humorist
* Dương Thu Hương (b. 1947, Vietnam), dissident & nv.
* Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822, Vietnam), poet
* Fannie Hurst (1885–1968, United States), nv.
* Rosalind Hursthouse (b. 1943, England/New Zealand), moral philosopher
* Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960, United States), fiction wr., folklorist & anthropologist
* Shahrukh Husain (b. 1950, Pakistan/England), wr. of fiction, non-f. & screenwriter
* Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866–1939, France/United States), non-f.
* Fahmida Hussain (b. 1948, Pakistan), literary scholar
* Saliha Abid Hussain (1913–1988, India), nv. & ch. wr.
* Nancy Huston (b. 1953, Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & es. in French & English
* Genevieve L. Hutchinson (1883–1974, United States), poet
* Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681, England), biographer
* Krishna Hutheesing (1907–1967, India), biographer
* Emily Huws (b. 1942, Wales), ch. wr.
* Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997, England/Kenya), mem. & col.
* Cornélie Huygens (1948–2002, Netherlands), nv. & political wr.
* Hwang In-suk (황인숙, b. 1958, Korea), poet
* Hwang Jini (황진이, c. 1506 – c. 1560, Korea), courtesan
* Hwang Jung-eun (황정은, b. 1976, Korea), fiction wr.
* Hwang Sun-mi (황선미, b. 1963, Korea), fable wr. & academic
* Abby B. Hyde (1799–1872, United States), hymn wr.
* Robin Hyde (1906–1939, South Africa/New Zealand), poet
* Liz Hyder (b. 1976 or 1977, England), nv.
* Lady Hyegyeong (헌경왕후, 1735–1816, Korea), mem.
* Prue Hyman (b. 1943, New Zealand), economist
* Hypatia (c. 350/370–415, Ancient Greece), philosopher & mathematician in Latin
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## I

* Marcela Iacub (b. 1964, Argentina), nv. & es. in French
* Juana de Ibarbourou (1892–1979, Uruguay), poet
* Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010, Austria/Austria-Hungary/England), nv. in English
* Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002, Bangladesh), wr.
* Amelia Denis de Icaza (1836–1911, Panama), poet
* Carmen de Icaza, 8th Baroness of Claret (1899–1979, Spain), nv.
* Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880, Germany), nv.
* Yumiko Igarashi (いがらしゆみこ, b. 1950, Japan), manga creator
* Luisa Igloria (b. 1961, Philippines/United States), poet
* Jung Ihyun (b. 1972, Korea), wr.
* Lempi Ikävalko (1901–1994, Finland), poet & col.
* Koi Ikeno (池野恋, b. 1959, Japan), manga creator
* Gō Ikeyamada (池山田剛, living, Japan), manga creator
* Bassey Ikpi (b. 1976, Nigeria), poet & mental health advocate
* Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915–2000, India/Pakistan), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Ryo Ikuemi (いくえみ綾, b. 1964, Japan), manga/creator
* Branislava Ilić (b. 1970, El Salvador), pw., prose & screenwriter
* Maria Ilnicka (1825/1827–1897, Poland), poet, nv. & translator
* Im Yunjidang (任允摯堂, 1721–1793, Korea), scholar & philosopher
* Jahanara Imam (1929–1994, Bangladesh), non-f. wr., diarist & activist
* Natsuko Imamura (今村夏子, b. 1980), fiction wr.
* Saba Imtiaz (b. 1985, Pakistan), nv. & col.
* Vera Inber (1890–1972, Russia/Soviet Union), poet & es.
* Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821, England), nv., actor & pw.
* Mirjam Indermaur (b. 1967, Switzerland), psychotherapy wr. in German
* M. K. Indira (1917–1994, India), nv.
* Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828–1902, United States/Burma), non-f. wr.
* Rachel Ingalls (1940–2019, United States), nv.
* Jean Ingelow (1820–1897, England), poet
* Elisabeth Inglis-Jones (1900–1994, Wales), nv. & biographer
* Anne Bower Ingram (1937–2010, Australia), ch. wr.
* Lotte Ingrisch (1930–2022, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv., pw. & screenwriter
* Catherine Lucy Innes (c. 1840–1900, England/New Zealand), wr.
* Lyn Innes (b. 1940, England/Australia), academic & wr.
* Bozenna Intrator (b. 1964, Poland/United States), nv., poet & pw. in German, Polish & English
* Sylvia Iparraguirre (b. 1947, Argentina), nv. & activist
* Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (大伴坂上郎女, c. 700–750, Japan), poet
* Mary E. Ireland (1834–1927, United States), wr., translator, poet
* Fanny Irvine-Smith (1878–1948, New Zealand), col. & local historian
* Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970, Brazil/United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Norah Isaac (1914–2003, Wales), wr. & educator
* Ulla Isaksson (1916–2000, Sweden), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Palmira Jaquetti i Isant (1895–1963, Spain), poet & ethnologist
* Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (1943–2012, Cuba/United States), theologian & non-f. wr.
* Svetlana Ischenko (b. 1969, Ukraine), poet, translator & actor
* Lady Ise (伊勢, c. 875–c. 938, Japan), poet
* Ise no Taifu (伊勢大輔, fl. early 11th century, Japan), poet
* Yuka Ishii (石井遊佳, b. 1953, Japan/India), fiction wr.
* Aleksandra Ishimova (1805–1881, Russia), ch. wr. & translator
* Michiko Ishimure (石牟礼道子, 1927–2018, Japan), wr. & activist
* Farhat Ishtiaq (b. 1980, Pakistan), nv. & screenwriter
* Elizabeth Isichei (b. 1939, Nigeria), wr. & academic
* Kate Isitt (1876–1948, New Zealand/England), col. & nv.
* Nina Iskrenko (1951–1995, Russia), poet
* Sariamin Ismail (1909–1995, Dutch East Indies/Indonesia), nv.
* Siti Zainon Ismail (b. 1949, Malaysia), fiction wr., poet & academic
* Rashidah Ismaili (b. 1941, Benin/United States), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Dora d'Istria (1828–1888, Romania/Italy), wr. on science & politics
* Gerta Ital (1904–1988, Germany), non-f. wr.
* Frances Itani (b. 1942, Canada/Newfoundland), nv., poet & es.
* Keiko Itō [ja] (伊藤 敬子, 1935–2020, Japan), poet
* Itō Noe (伊藤野枝, 1895–1983, Japan), wr. & social critic
* Risa Itō (伊藤理佐, b. 1969, Japan), manga creator
* Natsumi Itsuki (樹なつみ, b. 1960, Japan), manga creator
* Edna Iturralde (b. 1948, Ecuador), ch. wr.
* Nora Iuga (b. 1931, Romania), poet and prose wr.
* Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961–2007, Lithuania), nv. & es.
* Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997), children's wr. & translator
* Mirela Ivanova (b. 1962, Bulgaria), poet
* Praskovya Ivanovskaya (1852–1935, Russia/Soviet Union), autobiographer
* Rada Iveković (b. 1945, Yugoslavia/Croatia), philosopher
* Nada Iveljić (1931–2009, Yugoslavia/Croatia), ch. wr.
* Eowyn Ivey (living, United States), nv.
* Molly Ivins (1944–2007, United States), col.
* Helen Ivory (b. 1969, England), poet
* Princess Iwa (磐之媛命, died 347, Japan), poet
* Mariko Iwadate (岩館真理子, b. 1957, Japan), manga creator
* Margarita de Mayo Izarra (1889–1969, Spain), literature wr.
* Mari Carmen Izquierdo (1950–2019, Spain), sports wr.
* Kaneyoshi Izumi (和泉かねよし, living, Japan), manga creator
* Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部, b. c. 976, Japan), poet
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## J
### Ja–Jh

* Noni Jabavu (1931–2008, South Africa), mem. & col. in English
* Jožka Jabůrková (1896–1942, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), wr. & translator
* Annemarie Jacir (living, Palestine), fiction & screenwriter
* Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885, United States), nv.; Ramona
* Shelley Jackson (b. 1963, Philippines/United States), fiction wr. & es.
* Shirley Jackson (1916–1965, United States), fiction wr.
* Sandra Jackson-Opoku (b. 1953, United States), poet, nv. & screenwriter
* Rosamond Jacob (1888–1960, Ireland), wr. & diarist
* Violet Jacob (1863–1946, Scotland), poet & nv.
* Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897, United States), mem.; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
* Rayda Jacobs (1947–2024, South Africa), wr. & filmmaker
* Annie Jacobsen (b. 1967, United States), non-f. wr.
* Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003, United States), poet, fiction wr. & critic
* Lis Jacobsen (1882–1961, Denmark), philologist & archaeologist
* Ethel Jacobson (1899–1991, United States), poet
* Agnes E. Jacomb (1866–1949, England), nv.
* Paula Jacques (b. 1949, Egypt/France), nv.
* Frances Jacson (1754–1842, England), nv.
* Doris Jadan (1925–2004, United States), natural historian & cookery wr.
* Ann Jäderlund (b. 1955, Sweden), poet & pw.
* Fleur Jaeggy (b. 1940, Switzerland), nv. in Italian
* Kim Jae-Young (b. 1966, Korea), wr. & academic
* Manorama Jafa (b. 1932, India), ch. wr.
* Ada Jafarey (1924–2015, Pakistan), poet in Urdu
* Aziza Jafarzade (1921–2003, Azerbaijan), wr. & philologist
* Noemi Jaffe (b. 1962, Brazil), wr. & critic
* Rona Jaffe (1932–2005, United States), nv.
* Marie Jaffredo (b. 1966, France), comics wr.
* Janet Jagan (1920–2009, United States/Guyana), poet, ch. wr. & politician
* Dorta Jagić (b. 1974, Yugoslavia/Canada/Newfoundland), poet & wr.
* Annamarie Jagose (b. 1965, New Zealand), fiction wr. & academic
* Nasreen Jahan (b. 1966, Bangladesh), nv. & editor
* Rashid Jahan (1905–1952, India), fiction wr. & pw.
* Meenakshi Jain (living, India), historian
* Sunita Jain (1940–2017, India), scholar, fiction wr. & poet
* Linda Jaivin (b. 1955, Australia), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004, Iceland), pw. & fiction wr.
* Elfriede Jaksch (1842–1897, Latvia), fiction wr. in German
* Ayesha Jalal (b. 1956, Pakistan/United States), historian
* Magdalena Jalandoni (1891–1978, Philippines), feminist wr.
* Rosa Jamali (b. 1977, Iran/Persia), poet, critic & pw.
* Alice James (1848–1892, United States), diarist
* Andrea James (b. 1967, United States), non-f wr. & transgender activist
* Barbara James (1943–2003, Australia), historian
* Christine James (b. 1954, Wales), poet & academic
* Cynthia James (b. 1948, Trinidad/Canada/Newfoundland), pw., fiction wr. & poet
* Florence James (1902–1993, New Zealand/Australia), wr.
* Maria James (1793–1868, Wales), poet
* P. D. James (1920–2014, England), nv.
* Rebecca James (b. 1970, Australia), YA wr.
* Wendy James (b. 1966, Australia), nv.
* Wendy James (b. 1940, England), anthropologist
* Winifred Lewellin James (1876–1941, Australia), nv. & travel wr.
* Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860, Ireland/England), art & literature wr.
* Vilma Jamnická (1906–2008, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia), astrologer & actor
* Emma Jane (b. 1969, Australia), nv. & col.
* Maria de la Pau Janer (b. 1966, Spain), nv. in Catalan & Spanish
* Clara Janés (b. 1940, Spain), poet, fiction wr. & es.
* Elizabeth Janeway (1913–2005, United States), nv.
* Jang Eun-jin (장은진, b. 1976, Korea)
* Éva Janikovszky (1926–2003, Hungary), ch. wr.
* Maria Janitschek (Marius Stein, 1859–1927, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet & fiction wr.
* Tama Janowitz (b. 1957, United States), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Tove Jansson (1914–2001, Finland), nv. & ch. wr. in Swedish
* Anja Jantschik (b. 1969, Germany), wr. & col.
* Florence Page Jaques (1890–1972, United States), nature & travel wr.
* Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015, England), fiction wr.
* Dragojla Jarnević (1812–1875, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet in Croatian
* Lisa Jarnot (b. 1967, United States), poet
* Nada Awar Jarrar (living, Lebanon), nv.
* Bella Jarrett (1926–2007, United States), romance wr. & actor
* Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living, England), wr., academic & broadcaster
* Marguerite Florence Laura Jarvis (Oliver Sandys, 1886–1964, Wales), nv. & actor
* Christine Maria Jasch (b. 1960, Austria/Austria-Hungary), economist & non-f. wr.
* Vidmantė Jasukaitytė (1948–2018, Lithuania), poet, fiction wr. & es.
* Florence Jaugey (b. 1959, France/Nicaragua), screenwriter
* Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi (b. 1945, Iran/Persia), nv.
* Aghabeyim agha Javanshir (Aghabaji, 1780–1832, Azerbaijan/Iran/Persia), poet
* Charlotte Jay (Geraldine Halls, 1919–1996, Australia), mystery wr.
* Pupul Jayakar (1915–1997, India), wr. & activist
* Kirthi Jayakumar (b. 1987, India), activist & wr.
* Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926/1927–2023, Palestine/United States), fiction wr. & poet
* Rula Jebreal (b. 1973, Israel/Italy), fiction wr. & Palestine analyst
* Barbara Jefferis (1917–2004, Australia), radio pw. & nv.
* Margo Jefferson (b. 1947, United States), wr. & academic
* Sheila Jeffreys (b. 1948, Australia), feminist scholar & wr.
* Jefimija (1349–1405, Serbia), poet
* Andrea Jeftanovic (b. 1970, Chile), wr. & academic
* Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932, England), garden wr.
* Cynthia Jele (living, South Africa), nv. in English
* Elfriede Jelinek (b. 1946, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw. & nv.; 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Joyce Angela Jellison (b. 1969, United States), wr.
* N. K. Jemisin (b. 1972, United States), science fiction & fantasy wr.
* Gish Jen (b. 1956, United States), wr.
* Ida Jenbach (1868 – c. 1943, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw., screenwriter & Hc. victim
* Barbara Jenkins (living, Trinidad), fiction wr.
* Biddy Jenkinson (b. 1949, Ireland), poet
* Elizabeth B. Jenkins American spirituality writer
* Rosemary Jenkinson (b. 1967, Northern Ireland), poet, pw. & fiction writer
* Lynn Jenner (living, New Zealand), poet & es.
* Theodora Robinson Jenness (1847–1935, United States), wr., editor
* Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001, England), poet
* Kate Jennings (1948–2021, Australia), poet, nv. & es.
* Zoë Jenny (b. 1974, Switzerland), nv. in German & English
* Kristine Marie Jensen (Frøken Jensen, 1858–1923, Denmark), domestic & cookery wr.
* Thit Jensen (1876–1957, Denmark), fiction wr. & pw.
* Helen Jerome (1883–1958, Australia), poet, pw. & non-f. wr.
* Milena Jesenská (1896–1944, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), wr. & translator
* Ana de Jesús (1545–1621, Spain), wr., poet & nun
* Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977, Brazil), diarist & activist
* Jaqueline Jesus (b. 1978, Brazil), wr. & activist
* Lisa Jewell (b. 1968, England), fiction wr.
* Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909, United States), fiction wr.
* Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880, England), nv.
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–2013), Germany/United States), nv. & screenwriter

### Ji–Ju

* Jiang Biwei (蔣碧薇, 1899–1978, China), mem.
* Pamela Jiles (b. 1960, Chile), col. & politician
* Paulette Jiles (b. 1943, United States/Canada/Newfoundland), poet & nv.
* Rina Jimenez-David (b. 1955, Philippines), col. & non-f. wr.
* Meiling Jin (b. 1956, Guyana/England), poet, fiction and social wr.
* Empress Jitō (持統天皇, 645–702, Japan), poet & empress
* Jo Kyung-ran (조경란, b. 1969, Korea), nv.
* Liesl Jobson (living, South Africa), poet in English & musician
* Ann Henning Jocelyn (b. 1948, Sweden/Ireland), pw. & nv.
* Rita Joe (1932–2007, Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Alexandra Joel (b. 1953, Australia), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Eeva Joenpelto (1921–2004, Finland), nv.
* Sigrið av Skarði Joensen (1908–1975, Faroe Islands), col. & teacher
* Nadezhda Joffe (1906–1995, Soviet Union/United States), mem.
* Khasnor Johan (living, Malaysia), historian
* Kristine Martine Johannessen (1855–1933, Norway), magazine editor
* Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir (1863–1924, Iceland), non-f. wr.
* Hanna Johansen (b. 1939, Germany/Switzerland), philology & ch. wr. in German
* Oddvør Johansen (b. 1941, Faroe Islands), nv.
* Klara Johanson (1875–1948, Sweden), critic & es.
* Majken Johansson (1930–1993, Sweden), poet & Salvation Army member
* Amryl Johnson (1944–2001, Trinidad/England), poet & travel wr.
* Angela Johnson (b. 1961, United States), ch. wr. & poet
* Catherine Johnson (b. 1962, England), wr. & screenwriter
* Catherine Johnson (b. 1957, England), pw.
* Daisy Johnson (b. 1990, England), fiction wr.
* Diane Johnson (b. 1934, United States), nv. & es.
* Electa Amanda Wright Johnson (1938–1929, United States), es. & non-f. wr.
* Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966, United States), poet
* Helene Johnson (1906–1995, United States), poet
* Josephine Johnson (1910–1990, United States), nv., poet & es.
* Kate Johnson (b. 1982, England), nv.
* Mary Fitchett Johnson (died 1863, England), poet
* Pauline Johnson (1861–1913, Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Rebecca Johnson (b. 1966, Australia), ch. wr.
* Sarah Johnson (b. 1980, South Africa), poet in English
* Sophia Orne Johnson (1826–1899, United States), wr
* Stephanie Johnson (b. 1961, New Zealand), poet, pw. & fiction wr.
* Susan Johnson (b. 1939, United States), nv.
* Susan Johnson (b. 1956, Australia), fiction wr.
* Susannah Willard Johnson (1729–1810, United States), mem.
* Alexa Johnston (living, New Zealand), biographer & food wr.
* Christine Johnston (b. 1950, New Zealand), fiction wr.
* Dorothy Johnston (b. 1948, Australia), fiction wr.
* Jennifer Johnston (b. 1930, Ireland), nv.
* Maria I. Johnston (1835–1921, United States), American nv., non-f. wr.
* Mary Johnston (1870–1936, United States), nv.
* Velda Johnston (1912–1997, United States), nv.
* Elísabet Jökulsdóttir (b. 1958, Iceland), poet, fiction wr. & pw.
* Elizabeth Jolley (1923–2007, Australia), nv.
* Jon Kyongnin (전경린, b. 1962, Korea), poet
* Alice Gray Jones (1852–1943, Wales), wr. & editor
* Cherie Jones (b. 1974, Barbados), wr.
* Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011, England), nv.
* Gail Jones (b. 1955, Australia), nv. & academic
* Gayl Jones (b. 1949, United States), nv.
* Jill Jones (b. 1951, Australia), poet
* Laura Jones (b. 1951, Australia), screenwriter
* Lauren-Shannon Jones (b. c. 1989, Ireland), pw. & screenwriter
* Margaret Jones (1923–2006, Australia), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Marion Patrick Jones (1931–2016, Trinidad), nv.
* Mary Vaughan Jones (1918–1983, Wales), ch. wr. & educator
* Patricia Spears Jones (b. 1951, United States), poet
* Sandy Jones (b. 1943, United States), parenting wr.
* Tayari Jones (b. 1970, United States), nv.
* V. M. Jones (b. 1958, Zambia/New Zealand), ch. wr.
* Erica Jong (b. 1942, United States), nv.
* Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965, South Africa), poet in Afrikaans
* Ágústína Jónsdóttir (b. 1949, Iceland), poet & educator
* Áslaug Jónsdóttir (b. 1963, Iceland), ch. wr. & pw.
* Auður Jónsdóttir (b. 1973, Iceland), nv.
* Birgitta Jónsdóttir (b. 1967, Iceland), poet & politician
* Pamela Jooste (living, South Africa), nv. in English
* June Jordan (1936–2002, United States), poet, nv. & autobiographer
* Kate Jordan (1862–1926, Ireland/United States), nv. & pw.
* Sherryl Jordan (b. 1949, New Zealand), ch. & YA wr.
* Toni Jordan (b. 1966, Australia), nv.
* Lídia Jorge (b. 1946, Portugal), novelist
* Lieve Joris (b. 1953, Belgium), travel wr. in Flemish
* Barbare Jorjadze (1833–1895, Georgia (Caucasus)), wr. & princess
* Isabel de Josa (c. 1508–1575, Spain), humanist & Latinist
* Jenny Joseph (1932–2018, England), poet
* Sarah Joseph (b. 1946, India), fiction wr.
* Isha Basant Joshi (1908 – post-2004, India), fiction wr. & poet
* Rebecca Richardson Joslin (1846–1934, United States), non-f. wr.
* Gaëlle Josse (b. 1960, France), poet & nv.
* Maria Jotuni (1880–1943, Finland), fiction wr. & pw.
* Elsa Joubert (1922–2020, South Africa), nv. in Afrikaans
* Irma Joubert (b. 1947, South Africa), nv. in Afrikaans
* Leonie Joubert (living, South Africa), science wr. in English
* Alice Jouenne (1873–1954, France), non-f. wr.
* Carol Joynt (fl. 2010s, United States), wr., businesswoman
* Mireille Juchau (b. 1969, Australia), nv.
* Mary Catherine Judd (1852–1930s, United States), ch. wr. & non-f. wr.
* Juana Teresa Juega López (1885–1979, Spain), poet
* Erna Juel-Hansen (1845–1922, Denmark), nv. & activist
* Vanda Juknaitė (b. 1949, Lithuania), fiction wr. & pw.
* Heidi Julavits (b. 1968, United States), col. & nv.
* Conxita Julià (1920–2019, Spain), poet in Catalan
* Lucie Julia (1927–2023, Guadeloupe), poet & nv.
* Miranda July (b. 1974, United States), wr.
* Anees Jung (b. 1944, India), biographer
* Jung Eun-gwol (정은궐, living, Korea), nv.
* Jung Ihyun (정이현, b. 1972, Korea), nv.
* Jung Mikyung (정미경, 1960–2017, Korea), nv.
* Mari Jungstedt (b. 1962, Sweden), nv.
* Cristina Jurado (b. 1972, Spain), fiction wr.
* Irena Jurgielewiczowa (1903–2003, Poland), ch. & YA wr.
* Dorothy Misener Jurney (1909–2002, United States), political wr.
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### Ka–Kh

* Aminata Maïga Ka (1940–2005, Senegal), fiction wr.
* Keri Kaa (1942–2020, New Zealand), TV & ch. wr.
* Lene Kaaberbøl (b. 1960, Denmark), ch. & crime wr.
* Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa (b. 1964, Uganda/Kenya), mem. & ch. wr.
* Naila Kabeer (b. 1950, Bangladesh/England), wr. & economist
* Jane Kaberuka (b. 1956, Uganda), fiction wr. & autobiographer
* Siddika Kabir (1931–2012, India/Bangladesh), nutrition & cookery wr.
* Helena Kadare (b. 1943, Albania), fiction wr.
* Pauline Kael (1919–2001, United States), film critic
* Margit Kaffka (1880–1918, Hungary), nv. & poet
* Sirpa Kähkönen (b. 1964, Finland), nv.
* Elina Kahla (b. 1960, Finland), philologist & academic
* Elaine Kahn (living, United States), poet & wr.
* Ivande Kaija (1876–1942, Latvia), political wr.
* Isabelle Kaiser (1866–1925, Switzerland), poet & fiction wr. in French & German
* Hilda Käkikoski (1864–1912, Finland), ch. wr. & politician
* Nyana Kakoma (living, Uganda), wr.
* Maguy Kakon (b. 1953, Morocco), politician & wr
* Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, b. 1967, Japan), fiction wr.
* Lejla Kalamujić (b. 1980, Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Herzegovina), fiction wr.
* Ana Kalandadze (1924–2008, Georgia (Caucasus)), poet
* Sheema Kalbasi (b. 1972, Iran/Persia), poet & rights advocate
* Zaruhi Kalemkaryan (1871–1971, Armenia), prose wr.
* Elvy Kalep (1899–1989, Estonia), ch. wr. & aviator
* Aino Kallas (1878–1956, Finland/Estonia), fiction wr. in Finnish
* Leszli Kálli (living, Comoros/Canada/Newfoundland), kidnapped diarist
* Laxmi Kallicharan (1951–2002, Guyana), wr.
* Tuula Kallioniemi (b. 1951, Finland), ch. wr.
* Iryna Kalynets (1940–2012, Ukraine), political wr.
* Sophie Heidi Kam (b. 1968, Burkina Faso), poet & pw. in French
* Sufia Kamal (1911–1999, India/Bangladesh), poet & activist
* Ronelda Kamfer (b. 1981, South Africa), poet in Afrikaans
* Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986, Poland), poet & ch. & YA wr.
* Androulla Kaminara (b. 1957), Cypriot EU official & ambassador
* Yoko Kamio (神尾葉子, b. 1966, Japan), manga creator
* Sissal Kampmann (b. 1974, Faroe Islands), poet
* Vera Kamsha (b. 1962, Soviet Union/Russia), nv.
* Keturah Kamugasa (died 2017, Uganda), wr. & col.
* Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984, India), poet & fiction wr.
* Mare Kandre (1962–2005, Sweden), fiction wr. & poet
* Julie Kane (b. 1952, United States), poet, scholar & editor
* Sarah Kane (1971–1999, England), pw.
* Hitomi Kanehara (金原ひとみ, b. 1983, Japan), nv.
* Yadé Kara (b. 1965, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Germany), nv.
* Shakuntala Karandikar (1931–2018, India), nv.
* Josiane Kartheiser (b. 1950, Luxembourg), poet, pw. & ch. wr. in German & Luxembourgeois
* Miranda Kaufmann (b. 1982, England), historian, journalist & educator
* Joséphine Nyssens Keelhoff (1833–1917, Belgium), ed.
* Harriet B. Kells (1842–1913, United States), ed.
* Beth Kelly, (b. ?, United States) university professor
* Mirdza Ķempe (1907–1974, Latvia), poet & translator
* Kang Hwa-gil (b. 1986, South Korea), fiction wr.
* Agnès Kraidy (b. 1965), Ivorian journalist
* Kang Kyeong-ae (강경애, 1906–1944, Korea), nv. & poet
* Kang Sok-kyong (강석경, b. 1951, Korea), fiction wr.
* Kang Young-sook (강영숙, b. 1967, Korea), fiction wr.
* Maarja Kangro (b. 1973, Estonia), poet & fiction wr.
* Aya Kanno (菅野文, b. 1980, Japan), manga creator
* Fabienne Kanor (b. 1970, France), nv. & filmmaker
* Anna Kańtoch (b. 1976, Poland), fiction wr.
* Eva Kantůrková (b. 1930, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić (1932–1995, Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Herzegovina), ch. wr. & poet
* Lila Rose Kaplan (b. 1980, United States), pw.
* Nelly Kaplan (1931–2020, Argentina), nv., es. & scriptwriter in French
* Kristina Kappelin (b. 1958, Sweden), wr. on Italian relations
* Mehrangiz Kar (b. 1944, Iran/Persia), wr. & rights activist
* Yadé Kara (b. 1965, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Germany), nv., actor & educator
* Ekaterina Karabasheva (b. 1989, Bulgaria), poet & fiction wr.
* Teréz Karacs (1808–1892, Hungary), poet & mem.
* Mina Karadžić (1828–1894, Serbia), wr. & painter
* Margarita Karapanou (1946–2008, Greece), nv.
* Anna Karima (1871–1949, Bulgaria), wr. & activist
* Alma Karlin (1889–1950, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), fiction & travel wr. & pw.
* Ghada Karmi (b. 1939, Palestine/England), mem. & physician
* Farida Karodia (b. 1942, South Africa), fiction wr. in English
* Carmen Karr (1865–1943, Spain), feminist wr.
* Anna Louisa Karsch (1722–1791, Germany), poet & correspondent
* Junko Karube (軽部潤子, living, Japan), manga creator
* Ugnė Karvelis (1935–2002, Lithuania/France), nv. & translator
* Ioanna Karystiani (b. 1952, Greece), screenwriter
* Lady Kasa (笠郎女, early 8th century, Japan), poet
* Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974, Germany), nv. & poet
* Maki Kashimada (鹿島田真希, b. 1976, Japan), fiction wr.
* Anna Kashina (living, Russia/United States), nv.
* Stoja Kašiković (1865 – post-1927, Serbia), wr.
* Nina Kasniunas (b. 1972, United States), wr. & political scientist
* Leila Kasra (1939–1989, Iran/Persia), poet & songwriter
* Kapka Kassabova (b. 1973, Bulgaria/Scotland), wr. in English
* Kassia (810 – pre-865, Byzantium), poet & composer in Greek
* Lada Kaštelan (b. 1961, Yugoslavia/Croatia), pw. & screenwriter
* Elizabeth Kata (1912–1998, Australia), nv.
* Olivera Katarina (b. 1940, Serbia), poet
* Hoda Katebi (هدی کاتبی, living, Iran/Persia/United States), fashion wr.
* Marianne Katoppo (1943–2007, Indonesia), nv. & theologian
* Kazuyo Katsuma (勝間和代, b. 1968, Japan), business wr.
* Janina Katz (1939–2013, Poland/Denmark), poet in Danish
* Suzan Emine Kaube (b. 1942, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Germany), non-f. wr.
* Gina Kaus (1893–1985, Austria/Austria-Hungary/United States), nv., screenwriter & autobiographer
* Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877, Ireland), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Rose Kavanagh (1859 or 1860–1891, Ireland), wr. & poet
* Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974, England), nv. & travel wr.
* Catherine Samali Kavuma (b. 1960, Uganda/United States), nv.
* Kazune Kawahara (河原和音, b. 1972, Japan), manga creator
* Yumiko Kawahara (川原由美子, b. 1960, Japan), manga creator
* Hiromi Kawakami (川上弘美, b. 1958, Japan), nv. & poet
* Kikuko Kawakami (川上喜久子, 1904–1985, Japan), fiction wr.
* Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, b. 1976, Japan), fiction & non-f. writer & poet
* Mizuki Kawashita (河下水希, b. 1971, Japan), manga creator
* Merata Kawharu (living, New Zealand), wr, & academic
* Jackie Kay (b. 1961, Scotland), poet & nv.
* M. M. Kaye (1908–2004, England), nv. & illustrator
* Susanna Kaysen (b. 1948, United States), wr. & mem.
* Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008, Soviet Union/Russia), poet
* Rabia Kazan (b. 1976, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/United States), political wr.
* Elena Kazantseva (b. 1956, Soviet Union/Russia), poet & songwriter
* Irena Kazazić (b. 1972, Serbia), wr.
* Kazumi Kazui (一井かずみ, living, Japan), manga creator
* Ke Yan (柯岩, 1929–2011, China), pw., nv. & poet
* Molly Keane (1904–1996, Ireland), nv. & pw.
* Susanna Kearsley (b. 1966, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Annie Keary (1825–1879, England), nv. & poet
* Henrietta Keddie (1827–1914, Scotland), nv. & ch. wr.
* Janice Kulyk Keefer (b. 1952, Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & poet
* Nancy Keesing (1923–1993, Australia), poet, nv. & non-f. wr.
* Antigone Kefala (1935–2022, Australia), poet & prose wr.
* Fatou Keïta (b. 1965, Ivory Coast), ch. wr.
* China Keitetsi (b. 1976, Uganda), mem.
* Anne Kellas (b. 1951, South Africa/Australia), poet
* Yuko Takada Keller (高田ケラー有子, b. 1958, Japan), es. & artist
* Cathy Kelly (b. 1966, Ireland), nv.
* Gwen Kelly (1922–2012, Australia), fiction wr. & poet
* Helen Keller (1880–1968, United States), es. & autobiographer
* Linda Kelly (1936–2019, England), historian of romanticism
* Lindy Kelly (b. 1952, New Zealand), fiction & ch. wr. & pw.
* Maeve Kelly (b. 1930, Ireland), fiction wr. & poet
* Mary Eva Kelly (1826–1910, Ireland/Australia), poet & es.
* Rita Kelly (b. 1953, Ireland), poet & col.
* Gene Kemp (1926–2015, England), ch. wr.
* Jennie Murray Kemp (1858–1928, United States), editor, publisher, circulation manager, press superintendent
* Oonya Kempadoo (b. 1966, England), nv.
* Margery Kempe (c. 1373–1438, England), autobiographer & mystic
* May Kendall (1861–1943, England), poet, nv. & satirist
* Latofat Kenjaeva (b. 1950, Tajikistan), poet & wr.
* Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931, United States), pw
* Anne Kennedy (b. 1959, New Zealand), nv., poet & screenwriter
* Betty Kennedy (1926–2017, Canada/Newfoundland), broadcaster & wr.
* Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967, England), nv.
* Mary Olivia Kennedy (1880–1943, Ireland/England), critic & col.
* Nina Kennedy (b. 1960, United States), memoirist & screenwriter
* Pagan Kennedy (b. c. 1963, United States), wr. & col.
* Hannah Kent (b. 1985, Australia), wr.
* Jacqueline Kent (b. 1947, Australia), biographer & non-f. wr.
* Alice Annie Kenny (1875–1960, New Zealand), poet & fiction wr.
* Angela Kepler (b. 1943, New Zealand), naturalist & nature wr.
* Maylis de Kerangal (b. 1967, France), nv.
* Rivka Keren (b. 1946, Hungary/Israel), nv. in Hebrew
* Amanda Kerfstedt (1835–1920, Sweden), nv. & pw.
* Josephine Kermode (Cushag, 1852–1937, Isle of Man), poet & pw.
* Joan Haverty Kerouac (1931–1990, United States), autobiographe
* Doris Boake Kerr (Capel Boake, 1899–1945, Australia), nv.
* Judith Kerr (1923–1919, Germany/England), ch. wr.
* Lady Amabel Kerr (1846–1906, United Kingdom), wr., biog., nv., ch. wr.
* Suzi Kerr (b. 1966, New Zealand), economist
* Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer (b. 1936, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv. & poet
* Fatemeh Keshavarz (b. 1952, Iran/Persia), scholar & poet
* Birhan Keskin (b. 1963, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), poet
* Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya (1908–1984, Russia/Soviet Union), mem.
* Marie Kessels (b. 1954, Netherlands), poet & prose wr.
* Jessie Kesson (1916–1994, Scotland), wr.
* Hedwig Kettler (1851–1937, Germany), fiction & non-f. wr. & activist
* Yvonne Keuls (b. 1931, Dutch East Indies/Netherlands), nv.
* Irmgard Keun (1905–1982, Germany), nv.
* Ellen Key (1849–1926, Sweden), wr. on family life
* Marian Keyes (b. 1963, Ireland), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Eugénie De Keyser (1918–2012, Belgium), wr. on art in French
* Harriette A. Keyser (1841–1936, United States), nv. & biog.
* Jennie Ellis Keysor (1860–1945, United States), non-f. wr.
* 'Masechele Caroline Ntseliseng Khaketla (1918–2012, Lesotho), poet & educator
* Porochista Khakpour (b. 1978, Iran/Persia/United States), nv.
* Sheila Khala (b. 1990/1991, Lesotho), poet
* Farida Khalaf (b. c. 1995, Iraq), escapee & wr.
* Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897–1986, Palestine/Lebanon), political mem.
* Sahar Khalifeh (b. 1941, Palestine), nv.
* Hamda Khamis (b. 1945, Bahrain), poet & col.
* Annie Ali Khan (1980–1918, Pakistan), social & religious wr.
* Rabina Khan (b. 1972, Bangladesh/England), wr. & politician
* Razia Khan (c. 1936–2011, India/Bangladesh), wr., poet & educator
* Rukhsana Khan (b. 1962, Pakistan/Canada/Newfoundland), ch. wr.
* Uzma Aslam Khan (living, Pakistan), nv.
* Heyran Khanim (1790–1847, Azerbaijan/Iran/Persia), poet in Azerbaijani & Persian
* Dalal Khario (b. c. 1997, Iraq), ISIS survivor & mem.
* Dima Khatib (b. 1971, Palestine), col. & poet
* Rabeya Khatun (1935–2021, India/Bangladesh), nv.
* Rita El Khayat (b. 1944, Morocco), psychiatrist & anthropologist
* Sabiha Al Khemir (b. 1959, Tunisia), fiction & art wr.
* Babilina Khositashvili (1884–1973, Georgia (Caucasus)), poet & feminist
* Vénus Khoury-Ghata (b. 1937, Lebanon/France), nv. & poet
* Mariam Khutsurauli (b. 1960, Georgia (Caucasus)), poet & fiction wr.
* Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889, Russia), nv.

### Ki–Ky

* Sue Monk Kidd (b. 1948, United States), nv.
* Fiona Kidman (b. 1940, New Zealand), fiction wr., poet & scriptwriter
* Celine Kiernan (b. 1967, Ireland), YA wr.
* Susan Nalugwa Kiguli (b. 1969, Uganda), poet & scholar
* Toshie Kihara (木原敏江, b. 1948, Japan), manga creator
* Emelihter Kihleng (living, Manchuria), poet in English
* Lali Kiknavelidze (b. 1969, Georgia (Caucasus)), screenwriter & film director
* Anne Killigrew (1660–1685, England), poet
* Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836, England), ch. wr.
* Eeva Kilpi (b. 1928, Finland), fiction wr. & poet
* Ae-ran Kim (김애란, b. 1980, Korea), fiction wr.
* Kim Byeol-ah (김별아, b. 1969, Korea), nv.
* Kim Chae-won (김채원, b. 1946, Korea), fiction wr.
* Kim Chi-won (김지원, 1943–2013, Korea/United States), fiction wr.
* Kim Hu-ran (김후란, b. 1934, Korea), poet
* Kim Hyesoon (김혜순, b. 1955, Korea), poet
* Kim Insuk (김인숙, b. 1963, Korea/China), fiction wr.
* Kim Myeong-sun (김명순, 1896–1951, Korea), nv. & poet
* Myung Mi Kim (김명미, b. 1957, Korea/United States), poet in English
* Kim Nam-jo (김남조, 1927–2023, Korea), poet & academic
* Ronyoung Kim (1926–1987, United States), wr.
* Kim Ryeo-ryeong (김려령, b. 1971, Korea), ch. & YA wr.
* Kim Sagwa (김사과, b. 1984, Korea), fiction wr. & col.
* Kim Seon-wu (김선우, b. 1970, Korea), feminist poet
* Kim Seung-hee (김승희, b. 1952, Korea), poet, es. & nv.
* Barbara Kimenye (1929–2012, Uganda), ch. wr.
* Kodai no Kimi (小大君, fl. 9th or 10th century, Japan), poet
* Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949, Antigua/United States), nv.
* Annamária Kinde (b. 1956–2014, Russia), wr. & poet in Hungarian
* Aby King (b. 1977, England), wr. & nv.
* Carla King (living, Ireland), historian
* Grace King (1852–1932, United States), fiction wr. & historian
* Margaret King (1773–1835, Ireland/Italy), travel & medical wr.
* Rachael King (b. 1970, New Zealand), fiction wr. & musician
* Rosamond S. King (living, United States), poet & academic
* Tabitha King (b. 1949, United States), nv.
* Karen King-Aribisala (living, Guyana/Nigeria), fiction wr. & academic
* Mary Kingsley (1862–1900, England), explorer & science wr.
* Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955, United States), fiction wr., poet & es.
* Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940, Chile/United States), nv. & academic
* Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858, Germany), wr., composer & educator
* Elaine Kinsella (b. 1981, Ireland), wr. & radio pw.
* Yuki Kiriga (霧賀ユキ, living, Japan), manga creator
* Eleanor Kirk (1831–1908, United States), wr.
* Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1983, UK)
* Olga Kirsch (1924–1997, South Africa/Israel), poet in English & Hebrew
* Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013, Germany), poet
* Rio Kishida (岸田理生, 1946–2003, Japan), pw.
* Madhu Kishwar (b. 1951, India), feminist wr.
* Noémi Kiss (b. 1974, Hungary), fiction wr. & es.
* Nadia Yala Kisukidi (b. 1978, France), wr. & academic
* Yao Kitabatake (北畠八穂, 1903–1982, Japan), poet & ch. wr.
* Nobori Kiuchi (木内昇, b. 1967), nv.
* Iya Kiva (b. 1984, Ukraine), poet, translator, wr.
* Ella Kivikoski (1901–1990, Finland), archaeologist
* Karin Kiwus (b. 1942, Germany), poet & academic
* Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014, United States), poet
* Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs (b. 1974, Faroe Islands), ch. & fiction wr. & poet
* Nada Klaić (1920–1988, Yugoslavia/Croatia), historian
* Elizabeth Klarer (1910–1994, South Africa), wr. in English on extraterrestrial visions
* Gerda Weissmann Klein (1924–2022, Poland/United States), mem. & activist
* Naomi Klein (b. 1970, Canada/Newfoundland), wr. & activist
* Robin Klein (b. 1936, Australia), ch. wr.
* Laureana Wright de Kleinhans (1846–1896, Mexico), poet & activist
* Ellen Kleman (1867–1943, Sweden), women's rights activist
* Irena Klepfisz (b. 1941, Poland/United States), linguist & activist
* Marusya Klimova (b. 1961, Russia/Soviet Union), nv. & es.
* Linde Klinckowström-von Rosen (1902–2000, Sweden), equestrian & travel wr.
* Ekaterina Kniazhnina (1746–1797, Russia), poet
* Anne Knight (1786–1862, England), social reformer
* India Knight (b. 1965, England), journalist & author
* Anne Knight (1792–1860, England), ch. wr.
* Olivia Knight (1830–1908, Ireland/Australia), poet & es.
* Sophie von Knorring (1797–1848, Sweden), nv.
* Thekla Knös (1815–1880, Sweden), poet & ch. wr.
* Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), economic historian
* Marion Knowles (1865–1949, Australia), poet & nv.
* Elizabeth Knox (b. 1959, New Zealand), fiction wr. & es.
* Janette Hill Knox (1845–1920, United States), religious wr., editor, activist, teacher
* Kathleen Knox (1847–1930, Ireland), ch. wr. & poet
* Mary Norbert Körte (1934–2022, United States), poet, teacher & environmentalist
* Miyuki Kobayashi (小林深雪, living, Japan), nv. & manga wr.
* Nataliya Kobrynska (1851–1920, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Ukraine), fiction & political wr.
* Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Romania), wr. in Ukrainian
* Shonagh Koea (b. 1939, New Zealand), fiction wr.
* Yun Kōga (高河ゆん, b. 1965, Japan), manga creator
* Joy Kogawa (b. 1935, Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & poet
* Sheila Kohler (b. 1941, South Africa/United States), fiction wr.
* Věra Kohnová (1929–1942, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), Hc. diarist
* Lydia Koidula (1843–1886, Russia/England), poet in Estonian
* Saradha Koirala (b. 1980, New Zealand/Australia), poet & YA wr.
* Ingrid de Kok (b. 1951, South Africa), poet in English
* Musine Kokalari (1918–1973, Albania), wr. & politician
* Jana Kolarič (b. 1954, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), fiction & ch. wr. & pw.
* Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Yugoslavia), nv. in Croatian
* Nellie van Kol (1851–1930, Netherlands), feminist, educator, & ch. wr.
* Annette Kolb (1870–1967, Germany), political wr., nv. & wr. on music
* Margarete Kollisch (1893–1979, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet & translator
* Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952, Russia/Soviet Union), wr. & politician
* Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943, Germany), poet & Hc. victim
* Anise Koltz (1928–2023, Luxembourg), poet & ch. wr. in French & German
* Ono no Komachi (825–900, Japan), poet
* Anna Komnene (1083–1183, Byzantium), chronicler & emperor's daughter in Greek; Alexiad
* Usher Komugisha (b. c. 1988, Uganda), sports journalist & commentator
* Marie Kondo (近藤麻理恵, b. 1984, Japan), organization wr.
* Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck (1663–1740, Sweden), painter, actor & poet
* Fumiyo Kōno (こうの史代, manga creator
* Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910, Poland), nv. & poet
* Evgenia Konradi (1838–1898, Russia), wr., es. & col.
* Ina Konstantinova (1924–1944, Soviet Union), diarist & war victim
* Alicia Kopf (b. 1982, Spain), nv. & artist
* Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili (b. 1968, Georgia (Caucasus)), nv. & col.
* Alice Graeme Korff (1904–1975, United States), art critic
* Rachel Korn (1898–1982, Poland/Canada/Newfoundland), poet & prose wr.
* Barbara Korun (b. 1963, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet
* Sonya Koshkina (b. 1985, Ukraine), journalist, & editor-in-chief
* Birgithe Kosovic (b. 1972, Denmark), nv.
* Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968, Poland), political wr. & Hc. survivor
* Lina Kostenko (b. 1930, Soviet Union/Ukraine), poet
* Elizabeth Kostova (b. 1964, United States), nv.
* Rita Kothari (b. 1969, India), social & political wr.
* Helene Kottanner (c. 1400 – post-1470, Hungary), mem. in German
* Adjoua Flore Kouamé (b. 1964, Ivory Coast), nv.
* Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891, Russia), wr. & mathematician
* Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/United States), wr. & Hc. survivor
* Shih-Li Kow (b. 1968, Malaysia), fiction wr.
* Chana Kowalska (1899 – c. 1942, Poland/France), art wr. & Hc. victim
* Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938, Poland), diarist, nun & religious wr.
* Natsuki Koyata (古谷田 =奈月, b. 1981, Japan), nv.
* Alicia Kozameh (b. 1953, Argentina), fiction wr. & poet
* Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (b. 1949, Soviet Union/Russia), nv.
* Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008, Soviet Union/Russia), scholar & autobiographer
* Hanna Krall (b. 1935, Poland), wr., nv. & Hc. survivor
* Taja Kramberger (b. 1970, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet, es. & anthropologist
* Clementine Krämer (1873–1942, Germany), poet, fiction wr. & Hc. victim
* Judith Krantz (1928–2019, United States), wr. & col.
* Eliška Krásnohorská (1847–1946, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), feminist wr.
* Nicole Krauss (b. 1974, United States), fiction wr. & es.
* Helen Kleinbort Krauze (living, Poland/Mexico), travel wr. & col.
* Ursula Krechel (b. 1947, Germany), poet, prose wr. & pw.
* Katarzyna Krenz (b. 1953, Poland/Peru), nv., poet & painter
* Maruša Krese (1947–2013, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet & fiction wr.
* Michelle de Kretser (b. 1957, Australia), nv.
* Velga Krile (1945–1991, Latvia), poet & pw.
* Uma Krishnaswami (b. 1956, India/United States), ch. wr.
* Julia Kristeva (b. 1941, Bl/France), nv. & philosopher
* Gerður Kristný (b. 1970, Iceland), poet & nv.
* Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011, Hungary/Switzerland), nv. in French
* Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018, Yugoslavia/Croatia), nv.
* Antjie Krog (b. 1952, South Africa), poet & academic in Afrikaans
* Leena Krohn (b. 1947, Finland), fiction & ch. wr. & es.
* Brigitte Kronauer (1940–2019, Germany), nv.
* Yvonne Kroonenberg (b. 1950, Netherlands), non-f. wr.
* Helen Aldrich De Kroyft (1818–1915, United States), wr.
* Olga Kryuchkova (b. 1966, Soviet Union/Russia), nv.
* Marta Krūmiņa-Vitrupe (1908–2010, Latvia/United States), poet & es.
* Mina Kruseman (1839–1922, Netherlands), pw. & mem.
* Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940, Sweden), nv.
* Christina Krüsi (b. 1968, Bolivia/Switzerland), wr. on child abuse in German
* Susanna Kubelka (b. 1942, Austria/Austria-Hungary), nv. & col.
* Žofia Kubini (fl. 17th century, Hungary), poet in Czech
* Rohana Kudus (1884–1972, Dutch East Indies/Indonesia), wr. on women's skills
* Ayşe Kulin (b. 1941, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), fiction & screenwriter
* Annette Kullenberg (1939–2021, Sweden), nv. & broadcasting pw.
* Mojca Kumerdej (b. 1964, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), fiction wr. & critic
* Maxine Kumin (1925–2014, United States), poet & ch. wr.
* Xu Kun (徐坤, b. 1965, China), fiction wr.
* Maria Kuncewiczowa (1895–1989, Poland/United States), nv.
* Kirsi Kunnas (1924–2021, Finland), poet & ch. wr.
* Thérèse Kuoh-Moukouri (b. 1938, Cameroon/France), nv. & es.
* İsmet Kür (1916–2013, Turkey/Ottoman Empire), ch. wr.
* Maki Kureishi (1927–1995, India/Pakistan), wr.
* Natsuko Kuroda (黒田 夏子, b. 1937, Japan), fiction wr.
* Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (黒柳徹子, b. 1933, Japan), ch. wr. & actor
* Irma Kurti (b. 1966, Albania), poet & wr.
* Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989, Netherlands), history wr.
* Isolde Kurz (1853–1944, Germany), poet & fiction wr.
* Meta Kušar (b. 1952, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), poet & es.
* Rachel Kushner (b. 1968, United States), nv.
* Ellen Kuzwayo (1914–2006, South Africa), activist & politician in English
* Zofka Kveder (1878–1926, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Yugoslavia), fiction wr. & pw. in Slovenian
* Nestan Kvinikadze (b. 1980, Georgia (Caucasus)), scriptwriter & pw.
* Jean Kwok (living, United States), nv.
* Kwon Teckyoung (권택영, b. 1947, Korea), critic & academic
* Kwon Yeo-sun (권여선, b. 1965, Korea), fiction wr.
* Joanne Kyger (1934–2017, United States), poet
* Goretti Kyomuhendo (b. 1965, Uganda), nv. & activist
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### La–Le

* Esmeralda Labye (b. 1973, Belgium), journalist
* Ángela Labordeta (b. 1964, Spain), fiction wr.
* Carilda Oliver Labra (1922–2018, Cuba), poet
* Maria del Pilar Maspons i Labrós (1841–1907, Spain), poet & novelist
* María Elvira Lacaci (1916–1997, Spain), poet
* María Hortensia Lacau (1910–2006, Argentina), pedagogue, wr., es., poet, educator
* Bernarda de Lacerda (1596–1644, Portugal), scholar & pw.
* Vera Lachmann (1904–1985, Germany/United States), poet & educator
* Djanet Lachmet (b. 1948, Algeria/France), nv. & actor
* Minna Lachs (1907–1993, Austria/Austria-Hungary), educator & mem.
* Camilla Läckberg (b. 1974, Sweden), nv.
* Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950, United States), nv.
* Anna Lacková-Zora (1899–1988, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), poet & fiction wr. in Slovak
* Monique Laederach (1938–2004, Switzerland), poet, nv. & radio pw. in French
* Ann-Helén Laestadius (b. 1971, Sweden), YA wr.
* May Laffan (1849–1916, Ireland), nv.
* Carmen Laforet (1921–2004, Spain), fiction wr.
* Marcela Lagarde (b. 1948, Mexico), social wr. & politician
* Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940, Sweden), nv. & ch. wr.; 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Magdalene Isadora La Grange (1864–1935, United States), poet
* Margaret Rebecca Lahee (1831–1895, Ireland/England), dialect wr.
* Shahla Lahiji (1942–2024, Iran/Persia), wr.
* Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967, England/United States), fiction wr.
* Ana Emilia Lahitte (1921–2013, Argentina), poet, pw. & es.
* Leila Lahlou (living, Morocco), autobiographer
* Maria Chessa Lai (1922–2012, Italy), poet
* Maria Laina (b. 1947, Greece), poet
* Sinikka Laine (b. 1945, Finland), YA wr.
* Sylvie Lainé (b. 1957, France), science fiction wr.
* Olivia Laing (b. 1977, England), wr. & cultural critic
* Sarah Laing (b. 1973, New Zealand), fiction wr., mem. & cartoonist
* Angeliki Laiou (1941–2008, Greece/United States), historian of Byzantium
* Elizabeth Laird (b. 1943, England), travel & ch. wr.
* Natasha Lako (b. 1948, Albania), poet & nv.
* Laila Lalami (b. 1968, Morocco/United States), es. & nv.
* Nuray Lale (b. 1962, Turkey/Ottoman Empire/Germany), wr.
* Ritu Lalit (b. 1964, India), fiction wr.
* Lalleshwari (Lal Arifa; 1320–1392, India), mystic & poet in Kashmiri
* Caitriona Lally (living, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Nikita Lalwani (living, India/Wales), nv.
* Marta Lamas (b. 1947, Mexico), anthropologist & political scientist
* Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828, England), nv.
* Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, 1937–2000, Isle of Man), nv.
* Christina Lamb (b. 1965, England), wr. & columnist
* Helen Lamb (1956–2017, Scotland), poet
* Mary Lamb (1764–1847, England), co-wr. of Charles Lamb
* Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981, United States), nv.
* Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo (b. 1991, Philippines), author and opinion columnist
* Mitì Vigliero Lami (b. 1957, Italy), es. & poet
* Regina de Lamo (1870–1947, Spain), political wr.
* Elish Lamont (c. 1800/1816–1870, Ireland), wr. & miniaturist
* Anne Lamott (b. 1954, United States), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Astrid Lampe (b. 1955, Netherlands), poet & actor
* Rachida Lamrabet (b. 1970, Morocco/Belgium), nv. & pw. in Flemish
* Wafaa Lamrani (b. 1960, Morocco), poet
* Beatrice Lamwaka (living, Uganda), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Luo Lan (1919–2015, Taiwan), wr. & radio personality.
* Leena Lander (b. 1955, Finland), nv.
* Fran Landesman (1927–2011, United States), poet & lyricist
* Margarita Landi (1918–2004, Spain), nv. & screenwriter
* Zoila Ugarte de Landívar (1864–1969, Ecuador), wr. & suffragist
* Salcia Landmann (1911–2002, Ukraine/Switzerland), writer in Yiddish
* Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L., 1802–1838, England), poet & nv.
* Margaret Landon (1903–1993, United States), nv.
* Liliane Landor (b. c. 1956, Lebanon), non-f. wr.
* Michele Landsberg (b. 1939, Can), wr., feminist & activist
* Ruth Landshoff (1904–1966, Germany/United States), poet & wr. in German & English
* Anne Landsman (b. 1959, South Africa), nv. in English
* Jane Lane (1905–1978, England), nv. & biographer
* Margaret Lane (1907–1994, England), journalist, biographer & nv.
* Fátima Langa (1953– 2017, Mozambique), wr., poet, & publisher
* Annabel Langbein (b. 1958, New Zealand), food wr. & cook
* Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964, Ireland), poet, nv. & pw.
* Dagmar Lange (1914–1991, Sweden), nv.
* Norah Lange (1905–1972, Argentina), poet, nv. & autobiographer
* Katja Lange-Müller (b. 1951, Germany), nv.
* Gertrude Langer (1908–1984, Australia), art critic
* Anna Langfus (1920–1966, Poland/France), pw., nv. & Hc. survivor
* Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950, Germany), poet, nv. & Hc. survivor
* Eve Langley (1908–1974, Australia/New Zealand), nv.
* Mary Lewis Langworthy (1872–1949, United States), pw.
* Emilia Lanier (1569–1645, England), poet
* Coral Lansbury (1929–1991, Australia), nv. & academic
* Sara Berenguer Laosa (1919–2010, Spain), feminist wr.
* Jeanne Lapauze (1860–1920, France), poet & nv.
* Paula Lapido (b. 1975, Spain), fiction wr.
* Yvette Lapointe (1912–1994, Canada), comics wr.
* Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky (1874–1951, Russia/France), poet & fiction wr.
* Alda Lara (1930–1962, Algeria), poet
* Justine Larbalestier (b. 1967), YA fiction wr.
* Lucy Larcom (1824–1893, United States), poet & mill girl
* Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855, United States), poet
* Dalenda Larguèche (b. 1953, Tunisia), historian
* Yasmeen Lari (b. c. 1941, India/Pakistan), wr. on architecture
* Anna Larina (1914–1996, Russia/Soviet Union), mem.
* Glenda Larke (living, Australia), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Viveca Lärn (b. 1944, Sweden), ch. wr.
* Claudia Lars (1899–1974, Somalia), poet
* Hanna Astrup Larsen (1873–1945), writer, editor, translator
* Marianne Nøhr Larsen (b. 1963, Denmark), anthropologist & social wr.
* Nella Larsen (1891–1964, United States), fiction wr.
* Trude Brænne Larssen (b. 1967, Norway), nv.
* Åsa Larsson (b. 1966, Sweden), nv.
* Guðrún Lárusdóttir (1880–1938, Iceland), wr. & politician
* Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945, Germany), poet & pw.
* Marghanita Laski (1915–1988, England), fiction wr., biographer & pw.
* Ana Irma Rivera Lassén (b. 1955, Paraguay), poet, feminist & lawyer
* Margrethe Lasson (1659–1738, Denmark), poet & nv. in Danish
* Oriane Lassus (born 1987, France), wr., cartoonist, illustrator
* Marija Lastauskienė (1872–1957, Lithuania), fiction wr.
* Agnes Latham (1905–1996, England), wr., editor & academic
* Irene Latham (b. 1971, United States), poet & ch. wr.
* Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841–1913, United States), hymnist & poet
* Lathóg of Tír Chonaill (fl. 9th century, Ireland), poet
* Yulia Latynina (b. 1966, Russia), wr.
* Evelyn Lau (b. 1971, Canada/Newfoundland), poet & nv.
* Margaret Laurence (1926–1987, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Camille Laurens (b. 1957, France), nv.
* Vivi Laurent-Täckholm (1898–1978), Sweden), botanist & ch. wr.
* Dorianne Laux (b. 1952, United States), poet
* Christine Lavant (1915–1973, Austria/Austria-Hungary), religious poet & nv.
* Maura Laverty (1907–1966, Ireland), fiction & cookery wr. & broadcaster
* Mary Lavin (1912–1996, Ireland), fiction wr.
* Mónica Lavín (b. 1955, Mexico), fiction & YA wr.
* Nel Law (1914–1990, Australia), poet, diarist & artist
* Emily Lawless (1845–1913, Ireland), nv. & poet
* Patrice Lawrence (living, England), fiction wr.
* Alice Lawrenson (1841–1900, Ireland), botanist & gardener
* Louisa Lawson (1848–1920, Australia), poet, wr. & feminist
* Mary Lawson (b. 1946, Canada/Newfoundland), nv.
* Sylvia Lawson (1932–2017, Australia), historian & critic
* Auður Laxness (1918–2012, Iceland), wr.
* Jelena Lazarević (1365–1443, Serbia), wr.
* Simone Lazaroo (b. 1961, Australia), nv.
* Ruzha Lazarova (b. 1968, Bulgaria/France), fiction wr. & pw.
* Emma Lazarus (1849–1887, United States), poet; "The New Colossus" (inscribed on Statue of Liberty)
* Henryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942, Poland), poet & Hc. victim
* Linda Lê (1963–2022, Vietnam/France), nv.
* Sonya Lea (b. 1960, United States), ess., memoirist, & screenwr.
* Mary Leadbeater (1758–1826, Ireland), poet & prose wr.
* Jane Leade (1624–1704, England), mystic
* Anna Leader (b. 1996, Luxembourg), poet & nv. in English
* Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827–1881, Australia), poet & nv.
* Louisa Leaman (b. 1976, England), wr. on education
* Sarah Lean (living, England), ch. wr.
* Danuza Leão (1933–2022, Brazil), wr. & col.
* Mary Leapor (1722–1746, England), poet
* Ada Leask (1899–1987, Ireland), historian & antiquary
* Diana Lebacs (1947–2022, Curaçao), ch. wr.
* Marie Leblanc (1867–1915, Mauritius), editor, nv. & translator
* Joanna Lech (b. 1984, Poland), poet & nv.
* Katherine Leckie (1860 –1930, Canada/United States), journalist, editor & suffragist
* Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón (1898–1986, Mexico), es. & pw.
* Violette Leduc (1907–1972, France), nv. & autobiographer
* Andrea Lee (living, United States), nv. & mem.
* Harper Lee (1926–2016, United States), nv.; To Kill a Mockingbird
* Harriet Lee (1757–1851, England), nv. & pw.
* Lee Hye-gyeong (이혜경, b. 1960, Korea), fiction wr.
* Ida Lee (1865–1943, Australia), historian & poet
* Lee Hye-gyeong (이혜경, b. 1960, Korea), poet
* Muna Lee (1895–1965, United States), poet & translator
* Sophia Lee (1750–1824, England), pw. & nv.
* Tanith Lee (1947–2015, England), nv., poet & screenwriter
* Sarah Leech (1809–1830, Ireland), poet
* Sue Lees (1941–2002, England), academic, activist, feminist & wr.
* Valentine Leeper (1900–2001, Australia), classicist & correspondent
* Alicia Le Fanu (1791–1826, Ireland), poet & fiction wr.
* Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817, Ireland), wr.
* Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849–1892, Sweden), fiction wr. & pw.
* Anne Brydges Lefroy (1747/8–1804, England), wr. & poet
* Joy Leftow (living, United States), poet
* Květa Legátová (1919–2012, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), fiction wr. & es.
* Michele Leggott (b. 1956, New Zealand), poet & academic
* Susana Molinari Leguizamón, (ff. from 1939, Argentina), poet
* Ágnes Lehóczky (b. 1976, Hungary), poet & academic
* Tuija Lehtinen (b. 1954, Finland), ch. wr. & nv.
* Leena Lehtolainen (b. 1964, Finland), crime wr.
* Nechama Leibowitz (1905–1997, Latvia/Israel), Bible scholar
* Käthe Leichter (1895–1942, Austria/Austria-Hungary), politician & economist
* Julia Leigh (b. 1970, Australia), nv. & screenwriter
* Laura Leiner (b. 1985, Hungary), YA wr.
* Ann Tizia Leitich (1896–1976) Austria) wr. & journalist
* Adeline Leitzbach (1884–1968, United States), pw. & screenwr.
* Vesna Lemaić (b. 1981, Yugoslavia/Slovenia), fiction wr.
* Katerina Lemmel (1466–1533, Germany), correspondent & nun
* Aïcha Lemsine (b. 1942, Algeria), nv. & activist
* Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007, United States), nv. & ch. nv.
* Sue Lenier (b. 1957, England), poet & pw.
* Lalitha Lenin (b. 1946, India), poet
* Rebecca Lenkiewicz (b. 1968, England), pw.
* Ellen Lenneck (Helene Weichardt, 1851–1880, Germany), nv. & story wr.
* Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817, Sweden), wr. & poet
* Biddy White Lennon (1946–2017, Ireland), food wr.
* Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804 United States/England), wr., poet, & pw.
* Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham (1800 – c. 1889, Ireland), poet
* Melosina Lenox-Conyngham (1941–2011, Ireland), wr.
* Hélène Lenoir (b. 1955, France), wr.
* Conchi León (b. 1973, Mexico), wr.
* Magdalena León de Leal (b. 1939, Colombia), non-f. wr.
* María Teresa León (1903–1988, Spain), fiction & ch. wr.
* Mae Leonard (b. c. 1940), poet, wr. & broadcaster
* Vange Leonel (1963–2014, Brazil), nv. & musician
* Anne Leinonen (b. 1973, Finland), science fiction & fantasy wr.
* Marie Lenéru (1875–1918, France), plw. & diarist
* Donna Leon (b. 1942, United States), nv.
* Marie Léopold-Lacour (1859–1942, France), feminist, journalist, wr.
* Jónína Leósdóttir (b. 1954, Iceland), nv. & pw.
* Marie Léra (1864–1958, France), journalist, nv. & translator
* Samantha Leriche-Gionet (born 1985, Canada), animator, illustrator, & comic strip wr.
* Gerda Lerner (1920–2013, Austria/Austria-Hungary/England), pw. & non-f. wr. in English
* Yva Léro (1912–2007, Martinique), wr. & artist
* Katharyne Lescailje (1649–1711, Netherlands), poet
* Doris Leslie (1891–1982, England), nv. & biographer
* Mary Isabel Leslie (1899–1978, Ireland), nv.
* May Sybil Leslie (1887–1937, England), chemist & wr.
* Ľuba Lesná (b. 1954, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia), col., nv. & pw.
* Elsie Lessa (1912–2000, Brazil), wr.
* Doris Lessing (1919–2013, England), fiction wr., poet & biographer; 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Dewi Lestari (b. 1976, Indonesia), wr. & songwriter
* Lilian Leveridge (1879–1953, England/Canada), poet, ss. wr., non-f. wr.
* Rosa Leveroni (1910–1985, Spain), poet & es. in Catalan
* Ada Leverson (1862–1933, England). nv.
* Denise Levertov (1923–1997, England), US poet & es.
* Robin Levett (1925–2008, Australia), travel wr. & nv.
* Celia Moss Levetus (1819–1873, England), poet & historian
* Sonya Levien (1888–1960, Russia/United States), screenwriter
* Tanya Levin (b. 1971, Australia), non-f. wr.
* Gail Carson Levine (b. 1947, United States), YA nv.
* June Levine (1931–2008, Ireland/Canada/Newfoundland), nv. & feminist
* Olivia Levison (1847–1894, Denmark), Danish author and writer
* Sonia Levitin (b. 1934, Germany/United States), nv., ch. wr. & Hc. survivor
* Amy Levy (1861–1889, England), poet, es. & nv.
* Andrea Levy (1956–2019, England), nv.
* Deborah Levy (b. 1959, South Africa/England), pw., fiction wr. & poet
* Fanny Lewald (1811–1889, Germany), nv. & feminist
* Olive Lewin (1927–2013, Jamaica), social anthropologist & musicologist
* Alethea Lewis (1749–1827, England), nv.
* Corinth Morter Lewis (living, Belize), educator & poet
* Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979, Wales), nv. & poet
* Gwyneth Lewis (b. 1959, Wales), poet
* Hilda Lewis (1896–1974, England), historical & ch. wr.
* Janet Lewis (1899–1998, United States), nv.
* Wendy Lewis (b. 1962, Australia), non-f. wr. & pw.
* Sibylle Lewitscharoff (b. 1954, Germany), nv. & radio pw.
* Marina Lewycka (b. 1946, England), nv.
* Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641, England), wr. & polemicist
* Pauline de Lézardière (1754–1835, France), historian
* Toti Martínez de Lezea (b. 1949, Spain), nv. & ch. wr.

### Li–Ly

* Li Qingzhao (李清照, fl. early 12th century, China), poet & es.
* Li Ye (李冶, died 784, China)
* Marita Liabø (b. 1971, Norway), wr.
* Liadain (fl. 7th century, Ireland), poet & nun
* Liang Desheng (梁德繩, 1771–1847, China), poet & wr.
* Mechtilde Lichnowsky (1879–1958, Germany), poet, pw. & es.
* Isabella Lickbarrow (1784–1847, England), poet
* J.S. Anna Liddiard (1773–1819, Ireland), poet
* Sara Lidman (1923–2004, Sweden), nv. & political wr.
* Lauren Liebenberg (b. 1972, Zimbabwe/South Africa), nv. in English
* Erika Liebman (1738–1803, Sweden), poet & academic
* Gemma Lienas (b. 1951, Spain), fiction & ch. wr.
* Deborah Lifchitz (1907–1942, France), linguist
* Muthoni Gachanja Likimani (b. 1926, Kenya), political wr.
* Werewere Liking (b. 1950, Cameroon/Ivory Coast), wr. & pw.
* Rosa Liksom (b. 1958, Finland), fiction & ch. wr.
* Suzanne Lilar (1901–1992, Belgium), pw., es. & nv. in French
* Irmelin Sandman Lilius (b. 1936 Finland), fiction & ch. wr. in Swedish
* Kate Lilley (b. 1960, Australia), poet & academic
* Birgitta Lillpers (b. 1958, Sweden), poet & nv.
* Hayeon Lim (임하연, b. 1993, Korea), non-f. wr. & socialite
* Margaret Lim (1947–2011, Malaysia/Canada/Newfoundland), ch. wr.
* Rossy Evelin Lima (b. 1986, Mexico/United States), poet & academic
* Lin Huiyin (林徽因, 1904–1955, China), architect & wr.
* Lin Zongsu (林宗素, 1878–1942, China), wr. & suffragist
* Olga F. Linares (1936–2014, Panama/United States), anthropologist & archaeologist
* Martha D. Lincoln (1838–?, United States), wr. & journalist
* Freda Linde (1915–2013, South Africa), ch. wr. in Afrikaans
* Gunnel Linde (1924–2014, Sweden), ch. wr.
* Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737, Netherlands), wr. & mem.
* Gurli Linder (1865–1947, Sweden), ch. book critic
* Madeline Linford (1895–1975), journalist & nv.
* Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002, Sweden), ch. nv.; Pippi Longstocking
* Barbro Lindgren (b. 1937, Sweden), ch. & YA wr.
* Minna Lindgren (b. 1963, Finland), col. & nv.
* Elvira Lindo (b. 1962, Spain), nv. & pw.
* Marita Lindquist (1918–2016, Finland), ch. wr. in Swedish
* Hilarie Lindsay (1922–2021, Australia), ch. & non-f. wr. & poet
* Joan A'Beckett Lindsay (1896–1984, Australia), nv.
* Rose Lindsay (1885–1978), biographer & print maker
* Eva Lindström (b. 1939, Sweden), ch. wr. & illustrator
* Merethe Lindstrøm (b. 1963, Norway), fiction wr.
* Ling Shuhua (凌叔华, 1904–1990, China), wr. & painter
* Věra Linhartová (b. 1938, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), wr. & art historian
* Elizabeth Linington (1921–1988, United States), nv.
* Kelly Link (b. 1968, United States), fiction wr. & editor
* Baik Sou Linne (백수린, b. 1982, Korea), fiction wr.
* Olga Lipovskaya (1954–2021, Soviet Union), poet
* Rosina Lippi (b. 1956, United States), wr.
* Laura Lippman (b. 1958, United States), crime fiction wr.
* Ewa Lipska (b. 1945, Poland), poet
* Katri Lipson (b. 1965, Finland), nv.
* Cvetka Lipuš (b. 1966, Austria/Austria-Hungary/United States), poet in Slovenian
* Henriqueta Lisboa (1901–1985, Brazil), poet
* Irene Lisboa (1892–1958, Portugal), fiction wr., poet & es.
* Helena Lisická (1930–2009, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), ethnographer
* Clarice Lispector (1920–1977, Ukraine/Brazil), fiction wr.
* Elisa Lispector (1911–1989, Brazil), nv.
* S. E. Lister (b. 1988, England), nv.
* Carol Liston (living, Australia), historian
* Ellen Liston (1838–1885, Australia), fiction wr. & poet
* Jessie Sinclair Litchfield (1883–1956, Australia), poet & non-f. wr.
* Lucía Lijtmaer (b. 1977, Argentina/Spain), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Angela Litschev (b. 1978, Bulgaria/Germany), poet & critic
* Linda Little (b. 1959, Canada, fiction wr.
* Heather Little-White (1952–2013, Jamaica), nutritionist & disabilities activist
* Liu Rushi (柳如是, 1618–1664, China), poet & courtesan
* Penelope Lively (b. 1933, England), nv. & ch. wr.
* Sarah White Livermore (1789–1874, United States), poet, non-f. wr., hymn wr.
* Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996, Canada/Newfoundland), poet
* Deborah Knox Livingston (1876–1923, Scotland/United States), non-f. wr.
* Aurora Ljungstedt (1821–1908, Sweden), nv.
* Eulàlia Lledó (b. 1952, Spain), philologist & critic
* Luljeta Lleshanaku (b. 1968, Albania), poet & editor
* Kate Llewellyn (b. 1936, Australia), poet, diarist & travel wr.
* Pilar Molina Llorente (b. 1943, Spain), ch. wr.
* Georgia Lloyd (1913–1999, USA), pacifist, writer
* Martha Llwyd (1766–1845, Wales), poet & hymnist
* Teresa Lo (living, United States), wr.
* Guadalupe Loaeza (b. 1946, Mexico), social wr.
* Aké Loba (1927–2012, Ivory Coast/France), wr. & politician
* Mira Lobe (1913–1995, Austria/Austria-Hungary), ch. wr.
* Joice NanKivell Loch, (1887–1982, Australia), prose wr.
* Liz Lochhead (b. 1947, Scotland), poet & pw.
* Attica Locke (b. 1974, United States), nv.
* Elsie Locke (1912–2001, New Zealand), political wr. & historian
* Lilian Locke (1869–1950, Australia), fiction wr.
* Sumner Locke (1881–1917, Australia), fiction wr., poet & pw.
* Mary Anne Lockwood (1858–1938, Australia), ed.
* Patricia Lockwood (b. 1982, United States), poet, nv. & ess.
* Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990, Netherlands), ch. wr.
* Amanda Lohrey (b. 1947, Australia), nv. & es.
* Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905, Russia), poet
* Lesley Lokko (living, Ghana/Gold Coast/Scotland), nv. & academic
* Joan London (1901–1971, United States), fiction wr. & biographer
* Joan London (b. 1948, Australia), fiction wr. & screenwriter
* Joan Long (1925–1999, Australia), screenwriter & producer
* Ruth Frances Long (b. 1971, Ireland), fiction & YA wr.
* Tessa de Loo (b. 1946, Netherlands), fiction wr.
* Julienne van Loon (b. 1970, Australia), nv. & non-f. wr.
* Anita Loos (1888–1981, United States), screenwriter, pw. & nv.
* Abie Longstaff (living, Australia/England), ch. wr.
* Josefina Lopez (b. 1969, United States), pw., screenwriter & nv.
* Laia Martínez i López (b. 1984, Spain), poet & musician
* Pura López Colomé (b. 1952, Mexico), poet & translator
* Angelina M. Lopez (United States) romance wr.
* Rosa María Cid López (b. 1956, Spain), geographer & historian
* Rosaura Lopez (1932–2005, Spain/United States), mem.
* Karen Lord (b. 1968, Barbados), fiction wr.
* Gabrielle Lord (b. 1946, Australia), crime wr.
* Audre Lorde (1934–1992, United States), poet
* Emilie Loring (1864–1951, United States), singer
* Marguerite St. Leon Loud (1812–1889, United States), poet & wr.
* Margracia Loudon (c.1788–1860, Ireland), novelist and political wr.
* Laura Glen Louis (living, United States), wr., poet & es.
* Regina Louise (b. 1963, United States), wr. & child advocate
* Jarmila Loukotková (1923–2007, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), nv.
* Anna M. Louw (1913–2003, South Africa), nv. in Afrikaans
* Jennifer LoveGrove (living, Canada), nv.
* Rosalie Loveling (1834–1875, Belgium), poet, nv. & es. in Flemish
* Virginie Loveling (1836–1923, Belgium), poet, nv. & ch. wr. in Flemish
* Mary Frances Lovell (1843–1932, England/United States), non-f. wr.
* Carolyn Lovewell (fl 2020, United States), scholar, wr.
* Monica Lovinescu (1923–2008), fiction wr. & critic
* Trisha Low (living, United States), poet
* Helen Lowe (b. 1961, New Zealand), nv.
* Amy Lowell (1874–1925, United States), poet
* Mrs. I. Lowenberg (1845–1924, United States), nv. & essayist
* Brigid Lowry (b. 1953, New Zealand), ch. & YA wr. & poet
* Lois Lowry (b. 1937, United States), ch. wr.
* Mina Loy (1882–1966, England), poet & artist
* Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997, Cuba), poet & nv.
* Irene Lozano (b. 1971, Spain), es. & politician
* Orietta Lozano (b. 1956, Comoros), poet
* Lü Bicheng (呂碧城, 1883–1943, China), wr., poet & activist
* Tekla Teresa Łubieńska (1767–1810, Poland), pw. & poet
* Loreen Rice Lucas (1914–2011, Canada), humorous wr. & columnist
* Melissa Lucashenko (b. 1967, Australia), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987, United States), editor, pw. & col.
* Cornelia Lüdecke (b. 1954, Germany), wr. & polar researcher
* Rosario Lufrano (b. 1962, Argentina), journalist, broadcaster & reporter
* Lya Luft (1938–2021, Brazil), wr. & translator
* Eleonora Luthander (1954–2021, Sweden/Servia), poet, col. & translator
* Kristina Lugn (1948–2020, Sweden), poet & pw.
* Maria Lugones (1944–2020), Argentina), feminist philosopher, wr. & academic
* Nina Lugovskaya (1918–1993, Soviet Union/Russia), diarist & artist
* Viivi Luik (b. 1946, Estonia), poet & prose wr.
* Valeria Luiselli (b. 1983, Mexico/United States), fiction wr.
* Clotilde Luisi (1882–1969, Uruguay), lawyer & activist
* Luisa Luisi (1883–1940, Uruguay), poet & critic
* Tamara Lujak (b. 1976, Serbia), science fiction & fantasy wr.
* Mária Bajzek Lukács (b. 1960, Hungary/Slovenia), wr. on language in Slovenian
* Meilė Lukšienė (1913–2009, Austria/Austria-Hungary/Lithuania), cultural historian & educator
* Kiba Lumberg (b. 1956, Finland), screenwriter & artist
* Catharine Lumby (living, Australia), academic & col.
* Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley (1537–1578, England), translator
* Violeta Luna (b. 1943, Ecuador), poet, es. & critic
* Ulla-Lena Lundberg (b. 1947, Finland), travel wr., nv. & poet in Swedish
* Guðrún frá Lundi (1887–1935, Iceland), fiction wr.
* Luo Luo (落落, living, China), nv. & film director
* Alison Lurie (1926–2020, United States), nv. & academic
* Pilar de Lusarreta (1914–1967, Argentina), fiction & non-f. wr.
* Masiela Lusha (b. 1985, Albania/United States), wr. & actor
* Jadwiga Łuszczewska (1834–1908, Poland), poet & nv.
* Elizabeth Lutyens (1874–1964, England), religious wr.
* Emilie Luzac (1748–1788, Netherlands/Flanders), correspondent
* Olga Luzardo (1916–2016, Venezuela), journalist, poet & activist
* Hannah Lynch (1859–1904, Ireland), nv. & satirist
* Marta Lynch (1925–1985, Argentina), fiction wr.
* Patricia Lynch (c. 1894–1972, Ireland), ch. wr. & col.
* Philomena Lynott (1930–2019, Ireland/England), wr. & mem.
* Annabel Lyon (b. 1971, Canada/Newfoundland), fiction wr.
* Anne Bozeman Lyon (1860–1936, United States), nv., poet, ss. wr., non-f. wr.
* Elinor Lyon (1921–2008, Wales/England), ch. wr.
* Enid Lyons (1897–1981, Australia), biographer & politician
* Genevieve Lyons (1930–2018, Ireland/England), nv.
* Edith Joan Lyttleton (1873–1945, Australia/New Zealand), nv.
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