Helvy Tiana Rosa (born 2 April 1970) is an Indonesian playwright and writer.
Her short story "The Red Nets" (Jaring-jaring Merah) was chosen as one of the most important of the 1990s by the influential magazine Horison.
She has published over 50 works which have been translated into English, German, Arabic, Swedish, Japanese and French.
She founded the website for young writers named Forum Lingkar Pena and she edited the magazine for Islamic teenagers known as Annida.
She writes of how woman live in an Islamic culture run by men.