Zinaida Lindén (born 29 December 1963) is a Russian-born Finnish prose writer, publicist, author of short stories and several novels.

Lindén was born as Zinaida Vladimirovna Ushakova (Russian: Зинаида Владимировна Ушакова) on 29 December 1963 in Leningrad.

In 1986 she graduated from the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University, where she received a diploma in Swedish Language and Literature.

In 1990 Lindén married a Finnish citizen, a physicist; in 1991 she moved to Finland.

She has close ties with Japan, where she lived from 1999 to 2000, and which she has visited several times afterwards.