List of Jamaican women writers
This is a list of Jamaican women writers, including women writers either from or associated with Jamaica.
A
- Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954)
B
- Amy Bailey (1895–1990)
- Gwyneth Barber Wood (died 2006)
- Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911)
- Vera Bell (1906–?)
- Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919–2006)
- Jacqueline Bishop
- Eliot Bliss (1903–1990)
- Cedella Booker (1926–2008)
- Jean "Binta" Breeze (born 1957)
- Yvonne Brewster (born 1938)
- Erna Brodber (born 1940)
C
- Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949)
- Margaret Cezair-Thompson
- Michelle Cliff (1946–2016)
- Carolyn Cooper (born 1950)
- Christine Craig (born 1943)
D
- Jean D'Costa (born 1937)
- Nicole Dennis-Benn
E
- Beverley East (born 1953)
F
- Honor Ford-Smith (born 1951)
G
- Amy Jacques Garvey (1895–1973)
- Delores Gauntlett (born 1949)
- Lorna Goodison (born 1947)
H
- Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960)
L
- Olive Lewin (1927–2013)
- Heather Little-White (1952–2013)
M
- Alecia McKenzie
- Kellie Magnus (born 1970)
- Rachel Manley
- Una Marson (1905–1965)
- Kara Miller
- Pamela Mordecai (born 1942)
P
- Kayla Perrin (born 1970?)
- Velma Pollard (born 1937)
- Patricia Powell (born 1966)
R
- Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
- Joan Riley (born 1958)
- Kim Robinson-Walcott
S
- Mary Seacole (1805–1881)
- Olive Senior (born 1941)
- Makeda Silvera (born 1955)
- Vanessa Spence (born 1961)
T
- Elean Thomas (1947–2004)
W
- Sylvia Wynter (born 1928)
Z
- Fiona Zedde (born 1976)