This is a partial list of modernist women writers.
- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Russian poet
- Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean-American novelist
- Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc.
- Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer
- Mary Butts (1890–1937), British novelist
- Kate Chopin (1851–1904), American novelist, short story writer
- H.D. (1886–1961), American poet, novelist, memoirist
- Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), British novelist, poet
- Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright, memoirist
- Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981), Australian poet
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), American novelist
- Marie-Elena John (b. 1963), Antiguan novelist, Africanist
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet
- Mina Loy (1882-1966), British poet
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American poet
- Marianne Moore (1887-1972), American poet and essayist
- Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994), Argentine poet, short-fiction writer
- Jean Rhys (1890-1979), Caribbean novelist
- Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957). British novelist
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American poet, playwright, essayist, etc.
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, short story writer
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, short-fiction writer
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