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 (1956–2021)
• Yvonne Brewster (born 1938)
• Erna Brodber (born 1940)

C[]

• Hazel Campbell (1940–2018)
• 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[]

• Andrea Levy (1956–2019)
• 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)
• Helen Pyne-Timothy (1937–2015)

Q[]

• Ada Quayle (1920–2002)

R[]

• Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
• Joan Riley (born 1958)
• Kim Robinson-Walcott (born 1956)

S[]

• Mary Seacole (1805–1881)
• Olive Senior (born 1941)
• Verene Shepherd (born 1951)
• Tanya Shirley (born 1976)
• Makeda Silvera (born 1955)
• Vanessa Spence (born 1961)

T[]

• Elean Thomas (1947–2004)

W[]

• Sylvia Wynter (born 1928)

Z[]

• Fiona Zedde (born 1976)

See also[]

• List of women writers