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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

• Alma Flor Ada (born 1938), Cuban-American writer, poet, Professor Emerita
• Brígida Agüero y Agüero (1837–1866), Cuban-born poet
• Mirta Aguirre (1912–1980), poet, novelist, journalist
• Ginny Aiken (born 1955), Cuban-American novelist writing in English
• Magaly Alabau (born 1945), Cuban-American poet, theatre director, actress, writes in Spanish
• Dora Alonso (1910–2001), novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, children's writer
• María Argelia Vizcaíno (born 1955), Cuban-American historian, journalist, non-fiction writer
• Cristina Ayala (1856–1936), Afro-Cuban poet ^[1]

B

• Ruth Behar (born 1956), Cuban-American anthropologist, poet, memoirist, non-fiction writer
• Marilyn Bobes (born 1955), poet, novelist
• Juana Borrero (1877–1896), painter, poet
• Dulce María Borrero (1883–1945), poet, feminist

C

• Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist, poet, non-fiction writer
• Ana Cairo Ballester (1949–2019), writer, literature professor
• Julieta Campos (1932–2007), Cuban-Mexican novelist
• Yanitzia Canetti (born 1967), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
• Daína Chaviano (born 1957), 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 (1842–1920), writer ^[2]
• Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (1847–1938), considered to be the first women to practice journalism in Cuba

D

• Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (1894–1976), journalist, newspaper director, feminist
• Teresa Dovalpage (born 1966), novelist, playwright, living in the United States

F

• María Irene Fornés (1930–2018), Cuban-American playwright, author of Fefu and Her Friends

G

• Cristina García (born 1958), Cuban-American journalist, novelist
• Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (born 1949), Cuban-American novelist, writes in English
• Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), letter writer, poet, novelist, playwright, political activist, lived mainly in Spain
• Wendy Guerra (born 1970), poet, novelist, columnist

H

• Georgina Herrera (1936–2021), Afro-Cuban poet

I

• Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (1943–2012), Cuban-American theologist, non-fiction writer

J

• María Dámasa Jova Baró (1890–1940), Cuban poet and educator. ^[3]

L

• Carilda Oliver Labra (1922–2018), poet
• Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), poet

M

• Beatriz Maggi (1924–2017), Shakespearean scholar
• Mayra Montero (born 1952), Cuban-Puerto Rican short story writer, novelist, non-fiction writer
• Nancy Morejón (born 1944), poet, critic, essayist
• Isabel Moya (1961–2018), journalist and feminist

N

• Rafaela Chacón Nardi (1926–2001), poet and educator

O

• Achy Obejas (born 1956), Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, journalist
• Mirta Ojito (born 1964), Cuban-American journalist, non-fiction writer

P

• Hortensia Blanch Pita (1914–2004), Cuban-born non-fiction writer, moved to Mexico
• Juana Rosa Pita (born 1939), poet, translator

R

• Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez Ramírez, Cuban blogger and activist living in Germany ^[4]
• Mireya Robles (born 1934), Cuban-American novelist, short story writer, critic
• Mirta Rodríguez Calderón, journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta (1902–1975), 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 (1901-1983), feminist, journalist, and poet
• Cecilia Samartin (born 1961), Cuban-American novelist, psychologist; best-selling novelist in Norway; now lives in California
• Cristina Saralegui (born 1948), journalist, magazine editor, television presenter
• Anna Lidia Vega Serova (born 1968), Russian-born Cuban poet, novelist, short story writer
• Ana María Simo (born 1943), Cuban-American playwright, novelist, essayist
• Karla Suárez (born 1969), novelist, short story writer, travel writer

T

• Nivaria Tejera (1929–2016), poet, novelist

U

• Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), poet

V

• Zoé Valdés (born 1959), novelist, screenwriter, journalist, magazine editor
• María Villar Buceta (1899–1977), poet, journalist, and librarian

W

• Sylvia Wynter (born 1928), Cuban-born Jamaican novelist, playwright, critic, essayist

See also

• List of Cuban writers
• List of Cuban American writers
• List of women writers
• List of Spanish-language authors

References

1. Callahan, Monique-Adelle (2011). Between the Lines: Literary Transnationalism and African American Poetics. pp. 25–32. ISBN   019987669X.
2. Segura Graiño, Cristina (1998). Diccionario de mujeres en la historia. Madrid: Editorial Espasa Calpe. ISBN   84-239-8631-4.
3. Duke, Dawn (2008). Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers. pp. 76–79. ISBN   0838757065.
4. Devyn Spence Benson; Daisy Rubiera Castillo; Inés María Martiatu Terry (28 May 2020). Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices. Rowman & Littlefield. p. xxiii.