Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan-born novelist and poet known for her contributions to Nicaraguan literature.
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez is a Dominican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop emeritus of Santo Domingo.
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895–1970), was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. Born into a working-class Madrilenian family, she taught herself from an early age and began writing poems for the burgeoning Futurist and Ultraist movements.
Aída Cartagena Portalatín was a Dominican poet, fiction writer, and essayist who was an influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement. Many works of hers has been translated into English and other languages.
Salomé Ureña Díaz de Henríquez was a Dominican poet and teacher, being one of the central figures of 19th-century lyrical poetry and advocator for women’s education in the Dominican Republic, influenced by the positivist schools and the normal education of Eugenio María de Hostos, of whom she was an advantaged student. Her works focused on patriotism and family environment.
Señorita República Dominicana 1980 was held on April 19, 1979. There were 18 candidates who competed for the national crown. The winner represented the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe 1980. The Señorita República Dominicana Mundo entered the Miss World 1980 pageant. The Señorita República Dominicana Internacional would have entered Miss International 1980. The Señorita República Dominicana Café would have entered Reinado Internacional del Café 1980.
Miss Mundo Dominicana 2011 was held September 20, 2011, in Renaissance Auditorio de Festival del Hotel Jaragua, Santo Domingo. The Miss Mundo Dominicana winner represented the Dominican Republic in Miss World 2011, the Miss RD Internacional entered Miss International 2011, Miss Supranational RD entered Miss Supranational 2012, and the Miss Tourism Queen RD entered Miss Tourism Queen International 2011. The first runner up entered the Reinado Internacional del Café 2012. The winner was crowned by Sofinel Báez, Miss International Dominicana 2010.
Selva Casal was a Uruguayan poet.
Jael Uribe Elizabeth Medina is best known as Jael Uribe is a writer, storyteller, poet and painter creator of the female poetic foundation named Women Poets International. She is considered the initiator of the Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival, a chain of events celebrated by poets, artists and cultural associations worldwide, to honor women and against women violence during the month of march.
Rosa Silverio, in full Rosa de Jesús Silverio Filpo, is a Dominican poet and storyteller.
Ángela Hernández Núñez is a writer, educator and feminist in the Dominican Republic.
Beker Fabian or the Waufarer Poet, in Peru Beker Simón Fabián De Lao, is a Peruvian poet and writer and naturalized Italian. He is active in Peru, where he promotes diffusion of literature among young people, with literary events and poetry contests in the schools of the Andean and Amazon areas – where the mass media still arrive with difficulty – and also in Italy, where he strives to highlight in his work and in social and literary events, the importance of dialogue and mutual exchange between different cultures, and he supports the integration of migrants and people with disabilities in the social structure.
Primer Encuentro de Mujeres Negras de América Latina y El Caribe was an international conference of 300 representatives from 32 countries, which occurred 19–25 July 1992 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. One of its organizers was Ochy Curiel, an Afro-Dominican feminist academic. One of the outcomes of the meeting was an announcement to commemorate July 25th annually as "Día Internacional de las Mujeres negras Afrolatinoamericanas, caribeñas y de la diáspora".
Odette Alonso is a poet, storyteller, essayist, and promoter of Cuban literature. She has a degree in philology. She currently lives in Mexico, where she has resided since 1992.
Alice Lardé de Venturino was a Salvadoran poet and writer. Internationally recognized for her lyric poems, Lardé also published scientific works. She has been recognized by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador and the government of Chile, both of whom have renamed public streets and offices in her name.
Celsa Albert Batista is a black Dominican academic, writer and historian. She wrote one of the major works on slavery and is one of the few scholars who have focused on black identity in the Dominican Republic. Widely recognized for her work, she has received the Pedro Henríquez Ureña Gold Medal from the Government of the Dominican Republic, the International José Martí Prize from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella, among other honors.
Carmen Natalia Martínez Bonilla, known simply as Carmen Natalia, was a Dominican feminist poet, essayist, playwright, and activist in opposition to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
Ana Ilce Gómez Ortega was a Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and librarian. She is considered an important figure in contemporary Nicaraguan poetry.
Jeannette Miller is a writer, poet, narrator essayist and art historian of Dominican art. She was awarded the National Literature prize from her country in 2011.
Woman Scream International Poetry Festival in Aguilas Murcia, Spain
Woman Scream in Argentina in honor of Malala
Woman Scream in Santo Domingo RD
Woman Scream in Kosovo
Woman Scream in Mexico DF
