List of Puerto Rican women writers

A

• Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, historian, non-fiction writer
• Isabel Andreu de Aguilar, suffragist, feminist writer
• Delma S. Arrigoitia, historian, biographer
• Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, novelist, short story writer, essayist

  B

• Janette Becerra, short story writer, poet, critic
• Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier, poet
• María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rico's first female poet, playwright
• Giannina Braschi, novelist, poet, essayist, playwright
• Julia de Burgos, acclaimed poet, activist

  C

• Zenobia Camprubí, Spanish-born poet, diarist, translator
• Luisa Capetillo, anarchist, feminist writer
• Caridad de la Luz, Nuyorican poet, actress, activist
• Edna Coll, educator, writer of literary works
• Isabel Cuchí Coll, playwright, short story writer, journalist, non-fiction writer

  D

• Jaquira Díaz, fiction writer, essayist, author or Ordinary Girls

  E

• Sandra María Esteves, Nuyorican poet, artist

  F

• Rosario Ferré, novelist, essayist, poet, educator
• Isabel Freire de Matos, educator, journalist, children's writer, independence activist

  G

• Gilda Galán, actress, playwright, poet
• Magali García Ramis, 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, journalist, novelist, poet, children's writer
• Aurora Levins Morales, poet, biographer, non-fiction writer, feminist
• Teresita A. Levy, educator, historian, author of The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940.

  M

• Nemir Matos-Cintrón, poet
• Concha Meléndez, poet, essayist, educator
• Nicholasa Mohr, Nuyorican novelist, children's writer, short story writer
• Rosario Morales, poet, essayist, raised in New York City

  N

• Vionette Negretti, journalist, writer
• Frances Negrón-Muntaner, film-maker, literary critic, essayist, screenwriter
• Mercedes Negrón Muñoz, poet

  O

• Ana María O'Neill, educator, women's rights activist, non-fiction author
• Judith Ortiz Cofer, poet, short story writer, essayist, children's writer, autobiographer, educator

  P

• Olivia Paoli, suffragist, magazine editor

  S

• Esmeralda Santiago, novelist, memoirist, actress
• Mayra Santos-Febres, poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist
• Mercedes Sola, educator, women's rights activist, feminist writer

  U

• Luz María Umpierre, poet, critic, human rights activist

  V

• Lourdes Vázquez, since the 1980s, short story writer, novelist, poet essayist
• Ana Lydia Vega, acclaimed short story writer, essayist
• Irene Vilar, editor, memoirist, author of

  Z

• Iris Zavala, poet, novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer, educator