List of Ukrainian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Ukraine or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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 Bagriana (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
• 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

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 (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
• Halyna Shabshai (born 1980), writer, psychologist, some works translated into English
• 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
• Vladimirskaм Anna (1951 - ) art critic, writer, journalist, art curator, lecturer, teacher
• 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