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 (1945–2023), 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.The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940Tostones and Matzoh, a Puerto Rican-Jewish journey
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
See also List of women writers List of Puerto Rican writers List of Spanish-language authors
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