39 Swedish women poets

Sofia Carolina Ahlbom was a Swedish drawing artist, engraver, lithographer, photographer, map maker, writer, poet and feminist.

Sun Axelsson was a Swedish poet, novelist, translator and journalist.

Eva Hildegard Maria Billow née Forss (1902–1993) was an influential Swedish illustrator, cartoonist and children's writer. She is remembered for writing and illustrating rhyming Swedish children's stories, including Pojkarna Igelkotts vinterskor (1948) and Nickes lediga dag (1950). They depict everyday life in a playful, humorous style, often with animals as the principal characters. Her poetry collections are inspired by children in the home environment, sometimes depicted as animals, sometimes as human beings.

Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish author and poet. She debuted in 1998 with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret. Her critical breakthrough came in 2011 with the short-story collection Grand Mal. Her first novel, Helioskatastrofen, was released in 2013.

Sophia Elisabet Brenner, née Weber, was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess.

Christina Charlotta Cederström née Mörner af Morlanda was a Swedish dilettante artist, salon hostess, and baroness. She was an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, as well as an honorary member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts

Elsa Sigrid Collin was a Swedish theatre critic, poet and actress.

Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, née Wrangel,, was a Swedish countess, poet and salon holder. She hosted a literary salon in Uppsala 1812-1835 and has been described as the center of the salon in Uppsala during the Romantic era. She is known as the patron of Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, who greatly admired her, and as one of the earliest supporters of the Fosforisterna, a group of romantic poets in Uppsala.

Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie, was a Swedish writer, poet, lady-in-waiting and noblewoman.

Karin Valborg Ek, born Lindblad, was a Swedish writer.

Margareta Ekström is a Swedish poet, novelist, children's writer, literary critic and film critic. She made her literary debut in 1960 with the short story collection Aftnar i S:t Petersburg. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1977.

Athena Farrokhzad is an Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, translator and literary critic.

Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault is a Swedish poet and writer. She was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1992. In 2003, Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her services to literature.

Elsa Grave was a Swedish novelist, poet and artist.

Dagmar Helena Madeleine Gustafsson is a Swedish writer, translator and literary critic.

Rut Gunhild Hillarp was a Swedish poet and novelist. She is remembered for her modernist poetry evoking the difficulties of achieving sexual relationships in a man's world.

Ragnel Rose-Marie Huuva is a Swedish Sámi visual and textile artist, as well as a poet. As a poet, she first became published in magazines and anthologies in 1981. Her lyrical breakthrough occurred in 1999 with the poetry collection Galbma Radna. She was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2001. In 2003 she was awarded the Cultural Scholarship Rubus arcticus.

Katarina Kieri is a Swedish writer.

Thekla Levinia Andrietta Knös, was a Swedish writer, poet and translator.

Charlotte "Lotten" Louise von Kræmer was a Swedish baroness, writer, poet, philanthropist and women's rights activist. She was the founder of the literary society Samfundet De Nio and, alongside Martina Bergman-Österberg, the main financier of the National Association for Women's Suffrage.

Anna Maria Lenngren, née Malmstedt, was one of the most famous poets in Swedish history. Her father and brother were also poets.

Bodil Malmsten was a Swedish poet and novelist.

Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht was a Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess.

Julia Kristina Nyberg, was a Swedish poet and songwriter. She published two collections of poetry and was awarded by the Swedish Academy. She wrote the vast majority of her works under the pseudonym Euphrosyne.

Mathilda Valeria Beatrix d'Orozco also by marriage known as Cenami, Montgomery-Cederhjelm and Gyllenhaal, was a Swedish noble and salonist, composer, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and harpsichordist.

Jeanna Louise Oterdahl was a Swedish educator, author and poet.

Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. Among her plays are Ordning härskar i Berlin from 1979. Among her novels are Vindspejare from 1987 and Drottningens chirurg from 2006. She has been a professor at Dramatiska Institutet since 1992. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991 and the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2018.

Beata Rosenhane was a Swedish Baroness and writer. She was known for her learning and received an education unusual for a female of her epoch, and has as such been the subject of research.

Ruth Sofia Almén, was a Swedish composer, pianist, teacher, author and poet.

Elisabeth Rynell is a Swedish poet and novelist. Her novel Till Mervas (2002), the first to be translated into English, appeared in 2011 as Mervas.

Nelly Sachs was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950); other works include the poems "Zeichen im Sand" (1962), "Verzauberung" (1970), and the collections of poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes (1947), Flucht und Verwandlung (1959), Fahrt ins Staublose (1961), and Suche nach Lebenden (1971). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.

Vendela Skytte was a Swedish noblewoman, salonist and writer, poet and Lady of Letters. During her lifetime, she became an ideal and role model for a learned female scholar.

Carolina Wilhelmina Stålberg was a Swedish writer, poet, translator, and lyricist. She worked under the pseudonym "Wilhelmina".

Ingela Strandberg is a Swedish poet, children's writer, novelist, playwright, translator, journalist and musician. She gained recognition with her novel Mannen som trodde att han var Fritiof Andersson in 1983.

Eva Ström is a Swedish lyricist, novelist, biographer and literary critic. She made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Den brinnande zeppelinaren. Ström trained as a physician and worked in the medical profession 1974-1988 before becoming a full-time author.

Siri Margareta Augusta Suber, known as Margareta Suber, was a Swedish writer. She is best known as a novelist but was also a travel writer, translator, poet and children's writer.

Ida Albertina Törnström or Sölve was a Swedish writer, teacher and painter.

Josefina Leontina Amanda Wettergrund, née Lundberg pseudonym Lea, was a Swedish writer and poet. She was the editor of the family magazine Svalan in 1871–75.

Ulrika Carolina Widström, was a Swedish poet and translator.