List of Chilean women writers

A

• Marjorie Agosín, Chilean-American poet, memoirist, now lives in the United States
• Isabel Allende, highly acclaimed Chilean-American novelist, journalist, columnist, magazine editor, children's writer
• Marina Arrate, poet, psychologist
• Carmen Arriagada, letter writer, wrote in English and French

  B

• Pía Barros, short story writer and novelist
• María Luisa Bombal, acclaimed novelist, feminist
• Martina Barros Borgoño, autobiographer, early feminist
• Marta Brunet, novelist, short story writer

  C

• Elena Caffarena, politician, women's rights activist, non-fiction writer
• Mariana Callejas, writer and DINA agent
• Mabel Condemarín, educator, textbook writer, children's writer
• Mariana Cox Méndez, novelist, short story writer, columnist, feminist
• María de la Cruz, suffragist, journalist, poet, novelist, magazine editor

  D

• Achta Saleh Damane, journalist and politician
• Delia Domínguez, poet
• Gloria Dünkler, poet and librarian

  E

• Diamela Eltit, educator, novelist
• Gabriela Etcheverry, writer living in Canada

  F

• Soledad Fariña Vicuña, widely translated poet
• María Luisa Fernández, writer, editor, and poet
• Paulina Flores, short story writer

  G

• María Elena Gertner, writer, actress
• Isabel Gómez Muñoz, poet
• Carla Guelfenbein, novelist, screenwriter
• Viviana Guzmán, flutist, poet

  J

• Andrea Jeftanovic, novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Pamela Jiles, investigative journalist, poet, television presenter

  M

• Carmen Marai, pen name of Carmen María Bassa Rodríguez, poet, novelist, married in the mid-1960s
• Lina Meruane, writer, professor
• Gabriela Mistral, pen name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, poet, educator, feminist
• María Olivia Mönckeberg, journalist, essayist, and academic
• Yolanda Montecinos, journalist, television presenter
• Isabel Morel, journalist, magazine editor, feminist
• Henrietta Müller, Chilean-British journalist, feminist
• Rosabetty Muñoz, poet and professor

  P

• Marcela Paz, pen name of Esther Huneeus Salas de Claro, children's writer, creator of Papelucho
• Josefa de los Dolores Peña y Lillo Barbosa, letter writer, poet
• Magdalena Petit, popular novelist, playwright, essayist, biographer
• Monica Pidgeon, Chilean-British editor of Architectural Design

  R

• Carmen Rodríguez, Chilean-Canadian poet, short story writer, educator,
• Winétt de Rokha, pen name of Luisa Anabalón Sanderson, poet

  S

• Lake Sagaris, Canadian journalist, non-fiction writer, poet, translator, now living in Chile
• Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa, playwright, novelist, magazine editor
• Raquel Señoret, poet
• Elisa Serrana, novelist
• Marcela Serrano, novelist
• Pilar Sordo, psychologist, columnist, lecturer, and writer

  U

• Matilde Urrutia, memoirist

  V

• Mercedes Valdivieso, pioneering feminist writer, novelist, author of La Brecha
• Patricia Verdugo, investigative journalist, human rights activist, non-fiction writer
• Luz de Viana, feminist writer also known as Marta Villanueva

  W

• Brígida Walker, educator, non-fiction writer
• Teresa Wilms Montt, poet, novelist, feminist

  Y

• María Flora Yáñez, novelist and short story writer