This is a list of women writers who were born in the Philippines or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A Victorina A. Abellanosa (1903–1968), Cebuano dramatist Mila D. Aguilar (born 1949), poet, essayist, educator Erlinda K. Alburo (active since 1970s), poet, Cebuano scholar Estrella Alfon (1917–1983), short story writer, playwright, journalist Cora Almerino (active since 1990s), poet Mia Alvar (active since 1999), short story writer Ivy Alvarez (active since 2000), poet, editor, reviewer Encarnacion Alzona (1895–2001), historian, educator, suffragist Liwayway Arceo (1920–1999), novelist, journalist, radio scriptwriter B Felisa Batacan (active since the 1990s), journalist, novelist, short story writer Lualhati Bautista (1945–2023), novelist Merlinda Bobis (born 1959), playwright, short story writer, novelist Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (born 1947), novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer C Linda Ty Casper (born 1931), novelist, short story writer Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes (active since 1980s), Spanish-language writer, educator Martha Cecilia (1953–2014), romance novelist Arlene J. Chai (born 1955), Filipino-Chinese-Australian novelist Josefina Constantino (born 1920), essayist, critic, poet, nun Gilda Cordero-Fernando (1930–2020), publisher, short story writer, non-fiction writer Sheila Coronel (active since 2003), journalist, educator Conchitina Cruz (active since 1998), poet, educator D Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (1932–2010), poet, editor, playwright, educator E Lina Espina-Moore (1919–2000), Cebuano short story writer, novelist Damiana Eugenio (1921–2014), folklorist, educator Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), poet, feminist F Lina Flor (1914–1976), radio scriptwriter, columnist, biographer Leona Florentino (1849–1884), poet writing in Spanish and Ilocano G Candy Gourlay (born 1962), journalist, children's writer Evelyn May Guinid (born 1971), romance novelist H Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), Filipino-American playwright, novelist, mixed-media artist Rosa Henson (1927–1997), autobiographer Margie Holmes (active since 1973), non-fiction writer, columnist, popular psychologist Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (born 1944), non-fiction writer, fictionist, and professor I Luisa Aguilar Igloria (born 1961), Filipino-American poet J Magdalena Jalandoni (1891–1978), autobiographer, poet, novelist, short story writer Armie Jarin-Bennett (active since 1980s), journalist, television presenter, executive CNN director Rina Jimenez-David (born 1955), journalist, columnist K Karen Kunawicz (active since 1990s), poet, journalist, columnist, broadcaster M Melba Padilla Maggay (born 1950), social anthropologist, journalist, non-fiction writer Angela Manalang-Gloria (1907–1995), poet Paz Márquez-Benítez (1894–1983), short story writer Genoveva Matute (1915–2009), short story writer Armine Rhea Mendoza (active since the 1990s), romance novelist Hilda Montaire (1922–2004), short story writer, novelist Virginia R. Moreno (1923–2021), poet, playwright, film director O Maria Odulio de Guzman (active since 1960s), lexicographer Gilda Olvidado (born 1957), novelist, scriptwriter P Loreto Paras-Sulit (1908–2008), short story writer Elena