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Amelia Francisca Marchena Sánchez de Leyba, known as Amelia Francasci was a writer, considered the first female Dominican novelist. She is known for introducing the autobiographical genre to the national literature of the Dominican Republic. Francasci was a feminist, and she faced significant criticism for writing prose at a time when women were expected to write poetry. She was also criticized for her work in erotic literature.

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Carmen Natalia Martínez Bonilla, known simply as Carmen Natalia, was a Dominican feminist poet, essayist, playwright, and activist in opposition to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

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Aída Cartagena Portalatín was a Dominican poet, fiction writer, and essayist who was an influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement. Many works of hers has been translated into English and other languages.

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Angie Cruz is an American novelist. She is a 2020 recipient of the Alex Awards.

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Iliana Emilia García is a Dominican-born, US-based visual artist and sculptor known for large scale paintings and installations. Her main subject matter is the chair. She is a co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA (DYPG) Collective. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Carmen Altagracia Imbert Brugal, is a Dominican jurist, author, journalist and columnist.

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María África Gracia Vidal, known as The Queen of Technicolor, was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as "The Queen of Technicolor". Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and the last five were made in Europe.

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Virginia Elena Ortea, who wrote under the pen name Elena Kennedy, was a journalist and writer, credited as one of the first women novelists and first woman to have her own byline in the Dominican Republic. She was also the writer of the only known zarzuela from the Dominican Republic. There is a street and a school named in her honor in the country.

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Rosa Silverio, in full Rosa de Jesús Silverio Filpo, is a Dominican poet and storyteller.

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María Ugarte España was a Spanish-Dominican journalist, writer, academician, historian and palaeographer. Ugarte was the first woman who worked as a journalist in the Dominican Republic, and also the first woman to become a member of the Dominican Academy of History.

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Jael Uribe Elizabeth Medina is best known as Jael Uribe is a writer, storyteller, poet and painter creator of the female poetic foundation named Women Poets International. She is considered the initiator of the Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival, a chain of events celebrated by poets, artists and cultural associations worldwide, to honor women and against women violence during the month of march.