26 New Zealand women poets

Donna Tusiata Avia is a New Zealand poet and children's author.

Hinemoana Baker is a New Zealand poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and broadcaster.

Hera Lindsay Bird is a poet who lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is a New Zealand poet and anthologist.

Sarah Broom (1972–2013) was a New Zealand poet, Oxford graduate, university lecturer and mother of three children. Her work included two books of poetry, Tigers at Awhitu and Gleam. After her early death from lung cancer, the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, was established to remember and celebrate her life and work.

Diane Edith Brown is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.

Kate Camp is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington.

Eileen May Duggan was a New Zealand poet and journalist, from an Irish Roman Catholic family. She worked in Wellington as a journalist, and wrote a weekly article for the Catholic weekly The New Zealand Tablet for almost fifty years.

Lauris Dorothy Edmond was a New Zealand poet and writer.

Janet Paterson Frame was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour.

Paula Joy Green is a New Zealand poet and children's author.

Bernadette Hall is a New Zealand playwright and poet.

Helen Heath is a poet from New Zealand.

Robin Hyde was a South African-born New Zealand poet.

Jessica Le Bas is a Rarotonga-based poet from New Zealand.

Brigid Lowry is a New Zealand author.

Jessie Mackay was a New Zealand poet and animal rights activist.

Alice Mackenzie (1873–1963) was a 19th-century New Zealand author, settler and poet known for her book The Pioneers of Martins Bay describing her early life at Martins Bay, New Zealand in the 1870s and 1880s and supposed sighting of the extinct flightless bird the Moa.

Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, she left colonial New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917 and she died in France aged 34.

Selina Tusitala Marsh is a poet and academic, and was the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019.

Priscilla Muriel McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

Emma Neale is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.

Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences, published in numerous magazines and collected in five books of poetry.

Rosie Scott was a novelist and lecturer, with dual Australian and New Zealand citizenship.

Laura Solomon was a New Zealand / British novelist, playwright and poet. Best known as a novelist, her poetry and short stories have also been widely published and short listed for awards and prizes.

Jacqueline Cecilia Sturm was a New Zealand poet, short story writer and librarian. She married New Zealand poet James K. Baxter in 1948 and is sometimes referred to by her married name Jacquie Baxter.