List of Jamaican women writers

This is a list of Jamaican women writers, including women writers either from or associated with Jamaica.

A

 * Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954)
 * Louisa Wells Aikman (1755–1831)

B

 * Amy Bailey (1895–1990)
 * Gwyneth Barber Wood (died 2006)
 * Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911)
 * Vera Bell (1906–?)
 * Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919–2006)
 * Jacqueline Bishop (living)
 * Emily Rose Bleby (1849–1917)
 * Eliot Bliss (1903–1990)
 * Cedella Booker (1926–2008)
 * Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021)
 * Yvonne Brewster (born 1938)
 * Erna Brodber (born 1940)
 * Beverley Bryan (born 1949)

C

 * Hazel Campbell (1940–2018)
 * Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949)
 * Margaret Cezair-Thompson (living)
 * Michelle Cliff (1946–2016)
 * Carolyn Cooper (born 1950)
 * Christine Craig (born 1943)

D

 * Jean D'Costa (born 1937)
 * Nicole Dennis-Benn (born 1982)

E

 * Beverley East (born 1953)

F

 * Honor Ford-Smith (born 1951)

G

 * Amy Jacques Garvey (1895–1973)
 * Delores Gauntlett (born 1949)
 * Lorna Goodison (born 1947)

H

 * Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960)

L

 * Andrea Levy (1956–2019)
 * Olive Lewin (1927–2013)
 * Heather Little-White (1952–2013)

M

 * Alecia McKenzie (living)
 * Kellie Magnus (born 1970)
 * Rachel Manley (born 1955)
 * Una Marson (1905–1965)
 * Kara Miller (living)
 * Tonya R. Moore (living)
 * Pamela Mordecai (born 1942)

P

 * Kayla Perrin (born 1970?)
 * Velma Pollard (born 1937)
 * Patricia Powell (born 1966)
 * Helen Pyne-Timothy (1937–2015)

Q

 * Ada Quayle (1920–2002)

R

 * Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
 * Joan Riley (born 1958)
 * Kim Robinson-Walcott (born 1956)
 * Heather Royes (born 1943)

S

 * Stephanie Saulter (living)
 * Mary Seacole (1805–1881)
 * Olive Senior (born 1941)
 * Verene Shepherd (born 1951)
 * Tanya Shirley (born 1976)
 * Makeda Silvera (born 1955)
 * Vanessa Spence (born 1961)
 * Clarine Stephenson

T

 * Elean Thomas (1947–2004)

W

 * Sylvia Wynter (born 1928)

Z

 * Fiona Zedde (born 1976)