List of Cuban women writers

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

A

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

B

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

C

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

D

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

F

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

G

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

H

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

I

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

J

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

L

 * Carilda Oliver Labra (1922–2018), poet
 * Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), poet

M

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

N

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

O

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

P

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

R

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

S

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

T

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

U

 * Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), poet

V

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

W

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