21st-century women poets

Lebanese pop singer

author, secular humanist, and feminist

Canadian poet

Nicaraguan writer (1924-2018)

Romanian writer

American writer, artist and academic (born 1963)

Cuban writer

Iraqi poet (1922–2007)

Greek poet (1931-2020)

Uruguayan writer (born 1941)

Croatian poet and translator (1922–2010)

Nicaraguan writer

Macedonian writer

French poet and artist

Danish-language poet and writer (born 1963)

Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist (1926–2023)

Hungarian artist, poet, writer, musician, and autistic savant

Ghanaian writer

Hungarian poet, translator

Austrian writer

Puerto Rican writer

Chinese painter, poet and photographer

Swedish writer

Ivorian and French writer and painter

Lebanese poet, journalist and activist

Nigerian writer

Ugandian poet, essayist, folklorist, politician

Slovenian writer

Indonesian feminist philosopher, lecturer, scholar, and activist

Hungarian poet, writer, translator (1967–)

South African author

Danish writer and poet (born 1952)

poet and politician from Sao Tome and Principe (1926-2010)

Palestinian writer

Angolan writer and poet

Chinese writer and politician

Lebanese writer and poet (1937–2026)

Iranian American author

Palestinian novelist and short story writer

Algerian poet and artist (born 1965)

Brazilian writer

Danish writer

Romanian writer (1924–2014)

Sudanese poet and activist

Bulgarian-New Zealander author

Portuguese poet and professor (1956–2022)

Cuban writer

Albanian poet

Cape Verdean poet, human rights activist, government minister and politician

Burkinabé writer

poet from the Marshall Islands (born 1989)

Nepalese writer

Saudi Arabian journalist and poet

Albanian writer

Croatian writer

Italian poet (1947–2022)

São Tomé and Príncipe poet

Danish writer

Nigerian poet

French poet