
Anne van Amstel is a Dutch writer.

Maria Barnas is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.

Nelly Anna "Nel" Benschop was a Dutch poet. She was a best selling poet in the Netherlands.

Anna Blaman, real name Johanna Petronella Vrugt, was a Dutch writer and poet. She was a recipient of the P. C. Hooft Award. The literary award Anna Blaman Prijs is named after her.

Mathilda (Til) Brugman was a Dutch author, poet and linguist.

Andreas Burnier, born Catharina Irma Dessaur was a Dutch writer. Burnier has published poetry, lectures, books and articles, many of which address homosexuality, in order to emphasize women's problems in a male-dominated society.

Manja Croiset is a Dutch poet, writer and recitation artist.

Agatha ("Aagje") Deken was a Dutch writer.

Anna Enquist is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels.

Ida Gerhardt was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition.

Eva Gerlach is a Dutch poet. She also writes under the name Margaret Dijkstra.

Margaretha van Godewijk, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.

Marijke Hanegraaf is a Dutch poet. Since 1997, she has lived in

Estella Dorothea Salomea Hymans-Hertzveld was a Dutch Jewish poet and translator. Her poems, mainly on Biblical and historical themes, appeared regularly in several literary annuals.

Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg is a Dutch poet and writer.

Rozalie Hirs is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. Her poetry and music are lyrical as well as innovative. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening, reading, and the imagination.

Cynthia Lenige, also known as Kynke Lenige, was a Frisian poet. She died young, and her body of work is limited mostly to occasional poetry, though she also wrote a few satirical poems which argued for a classical education.

Katharyne Lescailje or Catharina Lescaille was a Dutch poet, translator and Publisher. Along with Catharina Questiers and Cornelia van der Veer she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century.

Gertrude Maria Johanna Catharina "Gerry" van der Linden is a Dutch writer.

Hanny Michaelis was a Dutch poet.

Mischa de Vreede was a Dutch poet and writer. She won the 1959 Herman Gorterprijs.

Petronella Moens was a blind Dutch writer, editor, and feminist. She managed a paper in 1788–1797, in which she spoke for political issues such as slavery and women suffrage.

Charlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers is a Dutch painter, prose writer and essayist. She won the Constantijn Huygens Prize (2000) and the P. C. Hooft Award (2010) for her literary oeuvre.

Augusta Guerdina Peaux was a Dutch poet. She began her publishing career as a writer of prose fiction, in literary magazines and in one collection, and in the early 1900s started publishing poetry, in magazines associated with the literary movement known as the Tachtigers, with whom she became associated. With her sister Johanna, she translated poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne, and with her friend Truus, with whom she shared a love for Iceland and its literature, she translated stories from the Edda. Two volumes of her poetry were published; she never sought literary fame, though some fame came to her posthumously.

Ester Naomi Perquin is a Dutch poet.

Catharina Questiers was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century. Her brother David also achieved some note as a poet.

Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (1869–1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Hannie Rouweler is a Dutch poet.

Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt was a Dutch writer. She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom," and considered one of the greatest Dutch writers. An ultimate honour was extended to her posthumously, in 2007, when a group of Dutch historians compiled the "Canon of Dutch History" and included Schmidt, alongside national icons such as Vincent van Gogh and Anne Frank.

Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar, who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, and an Ethiopic language, as well as various contemporary European languages. She was also the first woman to study at a Dutch university.

Pem Sluijter was a Dutch poet.

Stéphanie Hélène Swarth (1859-1941) was a prolific Dutch poet active from 1879 to 1938. She is considered one of the Tachtigers and acquired a reputation as a sonneteer.

M. Vasalis, pseudonym for Margaretha (Kiekie) Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist.

Anne Vegter is a Dutch poet, playwright and writer of children's literature. She is the first woman to hold the position of Dichter des Vaderlands.

Anna Roemers Visscher was a Dutch artist, poet, and translator.

Elly de Waard is a Dutch poet.

Maria Petronella Woesthoven was a Dutch poet.