Dorothy Hewett

| image = Dorothy Hewett at Bourke St.jpg | caption = Hewett in 1981 | birth_name = Dorothy Coade Hewett | birth_place = Perth, Western Australia | birth_date = 21 May 1923 | death_place = Springwood, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = 25 August 2002 (aged 79) | occupation = | years_active = 1941–2002 | children = 6 }} Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian playwright, poet and author. She wrote in a number of different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and ''avant garde''. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.

In her lifetime she had 22 plays performed, and she published nine collections of poetry, three novels and other prose works. There have been four anthologies of her poetry. Provided by Wikipedia