List of female SF writers: B

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• Hilary Bailey (born 1936)
• Kage Baker (born 1952)
• Lesley Beake (South African YA writer)
• Elizabeth Bear (born 1971)
• Lauren Beukes (South African writer; Zoo City (2010))
• Malorie Blackman (born 1962)
• Sarah Blau
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (born 1954)
• Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999)
• Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956)
• Anna Brzezinska
• Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949)
• Emma Bull (born 1954)
• Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)

• Gertrude Bacon
• Hilary J. Bader
• Hilary Bailey
• Wilhelmina Baird
• Kage Baker
• Toni Cade Bambara
• Elia Barceló
• A. M. Barnard
• Lisa A. Barnett
• Natalie Barney
• Marleen Barr
• Sandra Barret
• Elizabeth Barrette
• Natania Barron
• Gael Baudino
• Doris Baumgardt
• Mary F. Beal
• Fleur Beale
• Margaret Beames
• Elizabeth Bear
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Alison Bechdel
• Aphra Behn
• Currer Bell
• Ellis Bell
• Claudia De Bella
• Gioconda Belli
• Lisa Ben
• Aimee Bender
• Amber Benson
• Louky Bersianik
• Julia Bertagna
• L. D. Biagi
• J. Michael Bingham
• Malorie Blackman
• Katherine Blake
• Edith Bland
• Edith Nesbit Bland
• Fabian Bland
• Francesca Lia Block
• Nancy Bogen
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
• Marjorie Bowen
• Philippa Boyens
• Leigh Brackett
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• K. Tempest Bradford
• Alice Hastings Bradley
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Mary Hastings Bradley
• Rebecca Brand
• Caitlin Brennan
• E.M. Broner
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Brontë
• D. K. Broster
• Rosel George Brown
• Mildred Downey Broxon
• Kathleen Bryan
• Dorothy Bryant
• Bryher
• M. M. Buckner
• Lauren Beukes
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• Emma Bull
• Katharine Burdekin
• Stephanie Burgis
• Elory Burke
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Gwendoline Butler
• Octavia E. Butler
• A. S. Byatt