# List of Puerto Rican women writers

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

## A

* Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (born 1940), historian, non-fiction writer
* Isabel Andreu de Aguilar (1887–1948), suffragist, feminist writer
* Marta Aponte Alsina (born 1945), writer
* Delma S. Arrigoitia (born 1945), historian, biographer
* Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (born 1970), novelist, short story writer, essayist

## B

* Marilyn Batista Márquez (born 1959), journalist, short story writer
* Janette Becerra (born 1965), short story writer, poet, critic
* Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier (1819–1879), poet
* María Bibiana Benítez (1783–1873), Puerto Rico's first female poet, playwright
* Giannina Braschi (born 1953), novelist, poet, essayist, playwright
* Julia de Burgos (1914–1953), acclaimed poet, activist

## C

* Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956), Spanish-born poet, diarist, translator
* Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), anarchist, feminist writer
* Caridad de la Luz (born 1977), Nuyorican poet, actress, activist
* Edna Coll (1906–2002), educator, writer of literary works
* Isabel Cuchí Coll (1904–1993), playwright, short story writer, journalist, non-fiction writer

## D

* Jaquira Díaz, fiction writer, essayist, author of Ordinary Girls

## E

* Sandra María Esteves (born 1948), Nuyorican poet, artist

## F

* Rosario Ferré (1938–2016), novelist, essayist, poet, educator
* Isabel Freire de Matos (1915–2004), educator, journalist, children's writer, independence activist

## G

* Gilda Galán (1917–2009), actress, playwright, poet
* Magali García Ramis (born 1946), short story writer, journalist, novelist, essayist
* Migene González-Wippler, since the 1980s, books on the Santería religious sect in Spanish and English

## J

* Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, since the 1980s: poet, short story writer, essayist

## L

* Georgina Lázaro (born 1965), journalist, novelist, poet, children's writer
* Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), poet, biographer, non-fiction writer, feminist
* Teresita A. Levy (born 1970), educator, historian, author of The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940.

## M

* Nemir Matos-Cintrón (born 1949), poet
* Concha Meléndez (1895–1983), poet, essayist, educator
* Nancy Mercado (born 1959), Post-Beat writer, Nuyorican poet, essayist, fiction writer, playwright, editor, activist
* Mayra Montero (born 1952), journalist, novelist, short story writer
* Nicholasa Mohr (born 1938), Nuyorican novelist, children's writer, short story writer
* Rosario Morales (1930–2011), poet, essayist, raised in New York City

## N

* Vionette Negretti (born 1947), journalist, writer
* Frances Negrón-Muntaner (born 1966), film-maker, literary critic, essayist, screenwriter
* Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (1895–1973), poet

## O

* Ana María O'Neill (1894–1981), educator, women's rights activist, non-fiction author
* Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), poet, short story writer, essayist, children's writer, autobiographer, educator

## P

* Olivia Paoli (1855–1942), suffragist, magazine editor

## R

* Tania Ramos González (born 1971), author, academic, former dancer

## S

* Esmeralda Santiago (born 1948), novelist, memoirist, actress
* Mayra Santos-Febres (born 1966), poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist
* Mercedes Sola (1879–1923), educator, women's rights activist, feminist writer

## T

* Luisita Lopez Torregrosa (born 1943), journalist, memoirist

## U

* Luz María Umpierre (born 1947), poet, critic, human rights activist

## V

* Lourdes Vázquez (born 1949), since the 1980s, short story writer, novelist, poet essayist
* Ana Lydia Vega (born 1946), acclaimed short story writer, essayist
* Irene Vilar (born c.1969), editor, memoirist, author of The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets

## Z

* Iris Zavala (1936–2020), poet, novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer, educator