This is a list of women writers who were born in Brazil or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
A
Carine Adler (born 1948), screenwriter, film director
Zuleika Alambert (1922–2012), feminist writer, politician
Sarah Aldridge, pen name of Anyda Marchant (1911–2006), Brazilian-born American lesbian novelist, short story writer Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra (1898–1948), journalist, actress, theatre director Miriam Alves (born 1952), poet, short story writer Maria Adelaide Amaral (born 1942), playwright, screenwriter, novelist Narcisa Amalia (1856–1924), poet, journalist, women's rights activist Suzana Amaral (1932–2020), film director, screenwriter Leilah Assunção (born 1943), significant playwright, actress
B
Bruna Beber (born 1984), poet, writer
Carol Bensimon (born 1982), short story writer, novelist
Tati Bernardi (born 1979), short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist Beatriz Francisca de Assis Brandão (1779–1868), poet, literary and theatrical translator Eliane Brum (born 1966), journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer
C
Astrid Cabral (born 1936), acclaimed poet, educator
Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), young diarist
Joyce Cavalccante (born 1963), novelist, poet, short story writer
Kátya Chamma (born 1961), singer, poet
Marina Colasanti (born 1937), Italian-born Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, translator Cora Coralina (1889–1985), poet, children's writer Giselle Cossard (1923–2016) French Brazilian Anthropologist Ana Cristina Cesar (1952–1983), poet, translator Mariana Coelho (1857–1954), essayist, poet, educator, feminist Sonia Coutinho (1939–2013), journalist, short story writer, novelist Helena Parente Cunha (born 1929), poet, novelist, short story writer, educator
D
Márcia Denser (born 1949), magazine editor, columnist, short story writer
Cristina de Queiroz (1944 –2017), short story writer
Maria José Dupré (1905–1984), popular novelist, author of Éramos Seis
E
Conceição Evaristo (born 1946), novelist, poet, short story writer
F
Lygia Fagundes Telles (1918–2022), novelist, short story writer
Francisca Praguer Fróes (1872–1931), physician, feminist, non-fiction writer
Nísia Floresta (1810–1885), early feminist writer
Eva Furnari (born 1948), Italian-born children's writer
G
Zélia Gattai (1916–2008), photographer, memoirist, novelist, children's writer
Ivone Gebara (born 1944), nun, feminist theologian, religious writer
Luisa Geisler (born 1991), short story writer, novelist
Ruth Guimarães (1920–2014), first Afro=Brazilian author to gain a national audience for novels, short stories, and poetry
H
Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), poet, playwright, novelist
I
Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970), Brazilian-born American novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer, journalist, feminist
J
Noemi Jaffe (born 1962), novelist, educator
Jaqueline Jesus (born 1978), psychologist, gay rights activist, non-fiction writer Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977), diarist
K
Helena Kolody (1912–2004), poet
L
Ângela Lago (1945–2017), children's author
Maria Lacerda de Moura (1887–1945), anarchist, journalist, non-fiction writer
Danuza Leão (1933–2022), columnist, non-fiction writer
Vange Leonel (1963–2014), singer, journalist, novelist, playwright, feminist
Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), journalist, novelist
Henriqueta Lisboa (1901–1985), widely translated poet, essayist, translator
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), acclaimed novelist, short story writer, journalist Elisa Lispector (1911–1989), novelist Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862–1934), early Brazilian female novelist, short story writer, playwright, feminist Lya Luft (1938–2021), novelist, poet, translator