List of Cuban women writers

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

  B

• Ruth Behar, Cuban-American anthropologist, poet, memoirist, non-fiction writer
• Marilyn Bobes, poet, novelist
• Juana Borrero, painter, poet

  C

• Lydia Cabrera, anthropologist, poet, non-fiction writer.
• 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
• Maria Cristina Fragas, Afro-Cuban poet, wrote under the name Cristina Ayala

  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
• Gilda Antonia Guillen, anarchist, anti-communist writer, exiled to the United States in 1978

  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
• Dulce María Loynaz, poet

  M

• 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

  R

• Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez Ramírez, Cuban blogger and activist living in Germany
• Mireya Robles, Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, critic
• 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

• 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, now living in Paris

  U

• Úrsula Céspedes, poet

  V

• Zoé Valdés, novelist, screenwriter, journalist, magazine editor

  W

• Sylvia Wynter, Cuban-born Jamaican novelist, playwright, critic, essayist