List of Welsh women writers
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This is a list of women writers who were born in Wales or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
A
- Jane Arden (1927–1982), film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, poet
- Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961), widely translated novelist, short story writer, author of The Hiding Place
B
- Mary Balogh (born 1944), Welsh-Canadian historical novelist
- Anne Beale (1816–1900), popular novelist, poet, children's writer
- Anna Maria Bennett (c.1750–1808), novelist
- Ruth Bidgood (born 1922), poet
- Jane Brereton (1685–1740), poet, contributor to The Gentleman's Magazine
- Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920), novelist, short story writer
C
- Brenda Chamberlain (1912–1971), artist, poet
- Grace Coddington (born 1941), fashion writer, director of Vogue, memoirist
- Gillian Clarke (born 1937), poet, playwright, translator, broadcaster
- Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), best selling novelist
D
- Fflur Dafydd (born 1978), novelist, playwright, poet, singer, writes in Welsh and English
- Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935), novelist, industrialist
E
- Dorothy Edwards (1903–1934), novelist, short story writer
- Sally El Hosaini (born 1976), British-Egyption film director, screenwriter
- Menna Elfyn (born 1952), Welsh-language poet, playwright, columnnist, editor, poetry widely translated
- Christine Evans (born 1943), poet
- Margiad Evans (1909–1958), poet, novelist
F
- Catherine Fisher (born 1957), novelist, poet, broadcaster
G
- Menna Gallie (1919–1990), novelist, translator
- Annabel Giles (born 1950), broadcaster, best selling novelist, actress
- Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh-language poet, hymn writer
- Bethan Gwanas, pen name of Bethan Evans (born 1962), Welsh-language novelist, children's writer
H
- Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963), poet, artist, broadcaster
- Ann Harriet Hughes (1852–1910), Welsh-language novelist, poet
- Emily Huws (born 1942), Welsh-language children's writer
I
- Norah Isaac (1915–2003), Welsh-language short story writer, playwright, travel writer
J
- Mary Vaughan Jones (1918–1983), children's writer, teacher
L
- Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979), novelist, poet, journalist
- Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh-language poet, national poet of Wales, also writes in English
- Martha Llwyd (1766–1845), poet, hymnist
M
- Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet, children's writer
- Gwerful Mechain (15th century), early Welsh-language poet
- Nia Medi, since 2005, Welsh-language novelist, actress
- Dorothy Miles (1931–1993), poet, wrote in English and sign language
- Moelona, pen name of Elizabeth Mary Jones (1877–1953), Welsh-language novelist, children's writer, translator
- Ann Moray (1909–1981), novelist, short story writer, singer
- Elaine Morgan (1920–2013), non-fiction writer on anthropology, playwright, columnist
- Elena Puw Morgan (1900–1973), Welsh-language novelist, children's writer
- Eluned Morgan (1870–1938), Welsh-language author from Patagonia, travel writer, non-fiction writer
- Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), journalist, biographer, novelist
- Wendy Mulford (born 1941), poet, feminist
O
- Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991), Welsh-born Australian artist, poet, autobiographer, illustrator
P
- Pascale Petit (born 1953), poet
- Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861–1927), evangelist, religious writer, magazine publisher
- Katherine Philips (1632–1664), poet, translator
- Angharad Price, novelist since 1999, academic
R
- Allen Raine, pen name of Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (1836–1908), novelist, wrote in English and Welsh
- Helen Raynor (born 1972), television screenwriter, script editor, playwright
- Deryn Rees-Jones, since 1994, poet, essayist
- Sarah Jane Rees (1839–1916), teacher, poet, temperance campaigner
- Kate Roberts (1891–1985), leading Welsh-language novelist, short story writer
- Sally Roberts Jones (born 1935), poet, biographer
- Bernice Rubens (1923–2004), novelist, author of The Elected Member
S
- Carole Seymour-Jones (born 1963), biographer, columnist, literary non-fiction writer
- Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), mystery novelist, crime-fiction writer
- Jennifer Sullivan (born 1945), children's writer, critic
- Rosie Swale-Pope (born 1946), marathon runner, non-fiction writer
T
- Hester Thrale (1741–1821), diarist
- Barbara Margaret Trimble (1921–1995), novelist
V
- Hilda Vaughan (1892–1985), novelist, short story writer, playwright, author of The Invader
W
- Jo Walton (born 1964), Welsh-Canadian romance and science fiction novelist, author of Tooth and Claw
- Anna Laetitia Waring (1823–1910), poet, hymnist
- Sarah Waters (born 1966), novelist, author of Fingersmith
- Susie Wild (born 1979), novelist, journalist, editor, strong connections with Wales
- Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet
- Jane Williams (1806–1885), biographer, non-fiction works, many about Wales
Y
- Paula Yates (1959–2000), television presenter, non-fiction writer