List of Jamaican women writers explained

This is a list of Jamaican women writers, including women writers either from or associated with Jamaica.

A

• Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954)
• Louisa Wells Aikman (1755–1831)

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 (living)
• Emily Rose Bleby (1849–1917)
• Eliot Bliss (1903–1990)
• Cedella Booker (1926–2008)
• Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021)
• Yvonne Brewster (born 1938)
• Erna Brodber (born 1940)
• Beverley Bryan (born 1949)

C

• Hazel Campbell (1940–2018)
• Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949)
• Margaret Cezair-Thompson (living)
• Michelle Cliff (1946–2016)
• Carolyn Cooper (born 1950)
• Christine Craig (born 1943)

D

• Jean D'Costa (born 1937)
• Nicole Dennis-Benn (born 1982)

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 (living)
• Kellie Magnus (born 1970)
• Rachel Manley (born 1955)
• Una Marson (1905–1965)
• Kara Miller (living)
• Tonya R. Moore (living)
• 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)
• Heather Royes (born 1943)

S

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

T

• Elean Thomas (1947–2004)

W

• Sylvia Wynter (born 1928)

Z

• Fiona Zedde (born 1976)

See also

• List of women writers