This is a list of women writers who were born in Ukraine or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
A Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer, translator Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948), Ukrainian-born Belarusian novelist, journalist, works translated into English Victoria Amelina (1986–2023), Ukrainian novelist and poet; winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award Emma Andijewska (born 1931), poet, short story writer, novelist, some works translated into English Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998), translator, journalist, writings in Esperanto Sofia Andrukhovych (born 1982), novelist, translator Hanna Arsenych-Baran (1970–2021), novelist, poet and prose writer Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), Ukrainian-born German-language poet
B Kateryna Babkina (born 1985), poet, writer and playwright. Anna Bahriana (born 1981), novelist, poet, playwright, translator Oleksandra Bandura (1917–2010), teacher, literature scholar, writer Hanna Barvinok, pen name of Oleksandra Kulish-Bilozerska (1828–1911), writer and folklorist. Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), diarist, painter, sculptor Natalia Belchenko (born 1973), poet, translator Nina Bichuya (born 1937), novelist, children's writer Svitlana Biedarieva (fl 2014), art historian, editor Nella Bielski (1930s–2020), Ukrainian-born French novelist, actress Natalka Bilotserkivets (born 1954), poet, translator Inna Bulkina (1963–2021), literary critic and editor
C Dniprova Chayka, pen name of Liudmyla Vasylevska (1861–1927), poet, short story writer, translator, wrote in Russian and Ukrainian, some works translated into English Olena Chekan (1946–2013), film, stage and television actress, voice artist, television screenwriter and editor, political journalist and social activist, columnist, short story writer, essayist, humanist and feminist Tetiana Cherep-Perohanych (born 1974), poet, novelist, playwright and journalist Daria Chubata (born 1940), Ukrainian physician, writer, poet Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971) Ukrainian poet, novelist, writer, playwright
D Anastasia Dmitruk (born 1991), poet, writing in Russian and Ukrainian Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987), Ukrainian-born Russian-American, historical writings on Marxism and feminism, author of Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Ukrainian-born Russian-American non-fiction writer, co-author of The Story of Civilization with her husband Will Durant Bohdana Durda (born 1940), writer, poet, songwriter Maryna Dyachenko (born 1968), novelist, short story writer together with her husband Serkiy Dyachenko
G Zuzanna Ginczanka, pen name of Zuzanna Polina Gincburg (1917–1945), Ukrainian-born Polish-Jewish poet Lydia Grigorieva (born 1945), poet, photographer, now living in London Alyona Anatolievna Gromnitskaya (born 1975), poet and political spokesperson Nataliya Gumenyuk (born 1983) Ukrainian journalist, writer
H Lyubov Holota (born 1949), novelist, poet, journalist, children's writer Hrytsko Hryhorenko, pen name of Oleksandra Sudovshchykova-Kosach (1867–1924), poet, short story writer, translator, poetry in Ukrainian, Russian and French Maryna Hrymych (born 1961), novelist, non-fiction writer, historian, translator Katrya Hrynevycheva (1875–1947), writer, journalist and community leader Tamara Hundorova (born 1955), literary critic and culturologist
I Svetlana Ischenko (born 1969), poet, actress, translator, now living in Canada Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997), children's writer and translator
K Iryna Kalynets (1940–2012), poet, educator, human rights activist Vera Kamsha (born 1962), Ukrainian-born Russian journalist, fantasy novelist Patricia Kilina, pen name of Patricia Nell Warren (1936–2019), novelist, poet, editor and journalist who wrote in English and Ukrainian. Iya Kiva (born 1984), poet, translator, journalist, critic Marianna Kiyanovska (born 1973), poet, translator and literary scholar Nataliya Kobrynska (1851–1920), short story writer, editor, feminist Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942), novelist, poet, playwright, feminist Natalena Koroleva (1888–1966), writer Sonya Koshkina (born 1985), journalist, editor-in-chief Lina Kostenko (born 1930), popular poet, children's writer, known for her historical novel in verse Uliana Kravchenko, pen name of Julia Schneider (1860–1947), writer, educator and poet of German-Ukrainian ancestry Yevheniia Kucherenko (1922–2020), writer and pedagogue Olena Kysilevska (1869–1956), social activist, journalist and writer.
L Salcia Landmann (1911–2002), writings in German in support of the Yiddish language, non-fiction writer Marina Lewycka (born 1946), British writer of Ukrainian origin, novelist, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist, journalist, short story writer Lera Loeb (born c. 1979–1980), Ukrainian born American fashion blogger and publicist Lada Luzina (born 1972), pseudonym of Vladislava Kucherova, Ukrainian Russian-language author and former journalist Oksana Lutsyshyna (born 1974), poet, translator, and author
M Olesya Mamchich (born 1981), poet, children's writer Maria Matios (born 1959), poet, novelist, some works translated into English Dzvinka Matiyash (born 1978), writer, poet, children's author and translator Natalia Matolinets (born 1990), writer Anastasia Melnichenko (born 1984), journalist Kateryna Mikhalitsyna (born 1982), poet, children's writer, translator and editor
N Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), Ukrainian-born French-language novelist, biographer, author of Suite française Bohdana Neborak (born 1995) is a writer with a podcast
O Margarita Ormotsadze (born 1981), journalist, poet, novelist, non-fiction writer on economics
P Atena Pashko (1931–2012), chemical engineer, poet, social activist Olena Pchilka (1849–1930), acclaimed poet, publisher, novelist, playwright, feminist Halyna Petrosanyak (born 1969), poet, writer and translator Mariyka Pidhiryanka (1881–1963), poet, remembered mainly for her poems for children Svitlana Pyrkalo (born 1976), journalist, columnist, novelist, essayist
S Mariana Savka (born 1973), poet, children's writer, translator and publisher Iryna Senyk (1926–2009), poet Iryna Shuvalova (born 1986), poet, translator and scholar Lyubov Sirota (born 1956), poet, playwright, essayist, author of the Chernobyl Poems Żanna Słoniowska (born 1978), novelist
T Olena Teliha (1906–1942), poet, literary activist Liudmila Titova, Jewish-Ukrainian poet remembered for her 1941 poem on the massacre of Ukrainian Jews Nika Turbina (1974–2002), Russian-language poet, writing while still a small child, several poems translated into English
U Lesya Ukrainka, pen name of Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (1871–1913), celebrated poet, playwright, essayist, some works translated into English
V Iryna Vilde, pen name of Dary′na Dmy′trivna Makoho′n (1907–1982), short story writer, novelist Marko Vovchok, pen name of Mariya Vilinska (1833–1907), prominent short story writer, novelist, translator, wrote in Ukrainian and Russian Vira Vovk, pen name of Vira Ostapivna Selianska (1926–2022), poet, novelist, playwright, translator, now living in Brazil
Y Tetiana Yakovenko (born 1954), poet, literary critic, teacher Lyubov Yanovska (1861–1933), short story writer, playwright, novelist Yevheniya Yaroshynska (1868–1904), short story writer, translator, wrote in German and Ukrainian
Z Oksana Zabuzhko (born 1960), poet, novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer Iryna Zhylenko (1941–2013), poet, essayist, some of her poems translated into English
See also List of women writers
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