Biancamaria Frabotta (born June 1946, in Rome) is an Italian writer.
She has promoted the study of women writers in Italy.
and her early poetry focused on feminist issues.
The main themes of her later works are melancholy, the dichotomy between Nature and History and between Action and Contemplation, the relationship between the body and the self, and conjugal love.
Besides essays on feminism and academic works on poets such as Giorgio Caproni, Franco Fortini, Amelia Rosselli, she has written plays, radio-dramas, a television show on Petrarch and a novel.
She teaches Modern Italian Literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where she got her Laurea degree.