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Jane Arden was a British film director, actress, screenwriter, songwriter and poet. Her writings for stage and television also attracted attention in the 1950s.

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Anne Beale was a popular English novelist and poet based in Wales. Her poetry, novels and stories appeared in print for over fifty years during her lifetime: "an unusually long career as an author".

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Jane Cave (1754?-1812) was a poet who was probably born in Talgarth and died in Newport in Wales. She wrote in English and moved around England during her lifetime. She is particularly known for her poetry on religious subjects and on her headaches.

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Brenda Irene Chamberlain was a Welsh artist, poet and novelist. She also wrote a memoir of the 15 years she spent living on Bardsey Island. She won the first two Gold Medals ever awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales in the Fine Art category.

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Mary Davies, also known as Mair Eifion, was a Welsh poet writing in the Welsh language.

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Ann Griffiths was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns in the Welsh language. Her poetry reflects fervent evangelical Christian faith and thorough scriptural knowledge.

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Gwerful Fychan was a poet during the period of the Welsh Beirdd yr Uchelwyr during the late Middle Ages. She came from a noble family, her full name in genealogies being given as Gwerful ferch Ieuan Fychan ap Ieuan ap Hywel y Gadair ap Gruffudd ap Madog ap Rhirid Flaidd, and was the heiress of the mansion of Caer-Gai, near Llanuwchllyn, Merioneth. The name Fychan was later anglicised as Vaughan.

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Alice Gray Jones was a Welsh writer and editor, known by the pseudonym "Ceridwen Peris". She was an active temperance campaigner, and a co-founder of the North Wales Women's Temperance Union.

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Gwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, who was the inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005. She wrote the text that appears over the Wales Millennium Centre.

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Pascale Petit, is a French-born British poet of French/Welsh/Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India.

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Emily Jane Pfeiffer was a Welsh poet and philanthropist. She supported women's suffrage and higher education for women, as well as producing feminist poems.

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Sarah Jane Rees, also known by her bardic name of "Cranogwen", was a Welsh teacher, poet, editor and temperance campaigner.

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Maria Banks Riddell was a West Indies-born poet, naturalist, editor and travel writer, who was resident in Scotland and Wales. Robert Burns paid tribute to her as "a votary of the Muses".

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Anna Williams was a Welsh poet. She was a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson, who stated that he was "very desolate" when she died.

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Jane Williams was a Welsh writer, often known by her bardic name of Ysgafell. She is sometimes confused with her contemporary, Maria Jane Williams.