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, Cuban-American writer, poet, Professor Emerita
- Brígida Agüero y Agüero, Cuban-born poet
- Mirta Aguirre, poet, novelist, journalist
- Ginny Aiken, Cuban-American novelist writing in English
- Magaly Alabau, Cuban-American poet, theatre director, actress, writes in Spanish
- Dora Alonso, novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, children's writer
- María Argelia Vizcaíno, Cuban-American historian, journalist, non-fiction writer
- Cristina Ayala, Afro-Cuban poet
B
- Ruth Behar, Cuban-American anthropologist, poet, memoirist, non-fiction writer
- Marilyn Bobes, poet, novelist
- Juana Borrero, painter, poet
- Dulce María Borrero, poet, feminist
C
- Lydia Cabrera, anthropologist, poet, non-fiction writer
- Ana Cairo Ballester, writer, literature professor
- Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican novelist
- Yanitzia Canetti, novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
- Daína Chaviano, 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, writer
- Domitila García Doménico de Coronado, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in Cuba
D
- Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, journalist, newspaper director, feminist
- Teresa Dovalpage, novelist, playwright, living in the United States
F
- María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright, author of ''Fefu and Her Friends''
G
- Cristina García, Cuban-American journalist, novelist
- Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Cuban-American novelist, writes in English
- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, letter writer, poet, novelist, playwright, political activist, lived mainly in Spain
- Wendy Guerra, poet, novelist, columnist
H
- Georgina Herrera, Afro-Cuban poet
I
- Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American theologist, non-fiction writer
J
- María Dámasa Jova Baró, Cuban poet and educator.
L
- Carilda Oliver Labra, poet
- Mary Stanley Low, British-Cuban political activist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
- Dulce María Loynaz, poet
M
- Beatriz Maggi, Shakespearean scholar
- Ren%C3%A9e M%C3%A9ndez Capote, journalist and feminist
- Mayra Montero, Cuban-Puerto Rican short story writer, novelist, non-fiction writer
- Nancy Morejón, poet, critic, essayist
- Isabel Moya, journalist and feminist
N
- Rafaela Chacón Nardi, poet and educator
O
- Achy Obejas, Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, journalist
- Mirta Ojito, Cuban-American journalist, non-fiction writer
P
- Hortensia Blanch Pita, Cuban-born non-fiction writer, moved to Mexico
- Juana Rosa Pita, poet, translator
- Martina Pierra de Poo, poet
R
- Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez Ramírez, Cuban blogger and activist living in Germany
- Mireya Robles, Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, critic
- Mirta Rodríguez Calderón, journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, 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, feminist, journalist, and poet
- Cecilia Samartin, Cuban-American novelist, psychologist; best-selling novelist in Norway; now lives in California
- Cristina Saralegui, journalist, magazine editor, television presenter
- Anna Lidia Vega Serova, Russian-born Cuban poet, novelist, short story writer
- Ana María Simo, Cuban-American playwright, novelist, essayist
- Karla Suárez, novelist, short story writer, travel writer
T
- Nivaria Tejera, poet, novelist
U
- Úrsula Céspedes, poet
V
- Zoé Valdés, novelist, screenwriter, journalist, magazine editor
- María Villar Buceta, poet, journalist, and librarian
W
- Sylvia Wynter, Cuban-born Jamaican novelist, playwright, critic, essayist