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Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska was a Serbian ethnographer, journalist, writer, and feminist. She wrote literary works for children and educational discussions. As a journalist, wrote theater and music criticism, and published works on handicrafts and folk costumes. She wrote for and was the editor of the first Serbian women's magazine. She wrote under multiple pseudonyms, including Ljuba T. Daničić, Hele, Jelica, Jele, Jasna, Aunt Jelica, and young lady Ana.

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Milena Benini was a Croatian science fiction writer and translator. She received several prizes for her work, including 6 times an SFERA Award and multiple times an Artefakt Award.

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Marica Bodrožić is a German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in Svib in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin.

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Maja Bošković-Stulli was a Croatian slavicist and folklorist, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature.

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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.

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Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages.

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Jasna Horvat is a Croatian writer, cultural theorist and full professor at the University of Osijek. She writes novels, essays and books for children and youth as well as academic works. Most of her works have been assessed as Oulipian.

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Dragojla Jarnević, 12 was a Croatian poet and teacher. She became a member of the Illyrian movement, being most famous for writing of women's rights issues. She is also known for being an early mountaineer and rock-climber, famous for scaling the rock of Okić.

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Marija Jurić, known by her pen name Zagorka, was a Croatian journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She was the first female journalist in Croatia and is among the most read Croatian writers.

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Željka Markić is a leader of Croatian right-wing movement "In the name of Family"

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Vesna Parun was a Croatian poet.

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Countess Ana Katarina Zrinska was a Croatian noblewoman and poet, born into the House of Frankopan noble family. She married Count Petar Zrinski of the House of Zrinski in 1641 and later became known as Katarina Zrinska. She is remembered in Croatia as a patron of the arts, a writer and patriot. She died in obscurity in a monastery in Graz following the downfall of the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy in 1671 and the execution of both her husband Petar Zrinski and her brother Fran Krsto Frankopan. Her most notable literary work is Putni tovaruš, written 1660 at her estates in Ozalj.

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Flora Zuzzeri was a lyric poet from the Republic of Ragusa. She wrote in Italian, Latin and Croatian.