Amelia Denis de Icaza (November 28, 1836 – July 16, 1911) was a Colombian and later a Panamanian romantic poet.

[1] Born in Panama City in 1836, her father was of French origin and her mother Panamanian.

As a child, she was very interested in literature and wrote poems in a completely natural style without any trimmings.

She went to the local school in the Santa Ana district but received most of her cultural education at home, meeting poets whose works were published in La Floresta Istmeña.

This caused her considerable sadness which is reflected in one of her most beautiful poems, Al Cerro Ancón (1906).